Changes of Chinese Names from the Perspective of the Evolution of Symbolic Rhetoric Four Master Tropes

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10.2991/assehr.k.201127.081How to use a DOI?

Keywords

semiotic rhetoric, four master tropes, Chinese names, changes, autonomy

Abstract

Semiotic rhetoric four master tropes follow the law of transformation of metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. There is a negative progressive relationship between the four master tropes. Each one of semiotic rhetoric is the negation of each other. This principle corresponds to the development of four different stages of things. As an indicator, name refers to the way of thinking when the parents named their children under the historical and cultural context at that time. To reflect the characteristics of the Chinese name with this principle, people’s psychological changes and social-cultural changes in the process of historical development will be fully revealed. This paper will study the laws and trends of Chinese newborn names (Han nationality) from the founding of new China to present times with large data. The changes of parents’ implied vision behind these names and the particular historical tide, the influence of cultural traditions, and the intergenerational changes of Chinese autonomy will be explored.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jie Zeng
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/28
TI  - Changes of Chinese Names from the Perspective of the Evolution of Symbolic Rhetoric Four Master Tropes
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Education, Language and Inter-cultural Communication (ELIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 405
EP  - 411
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201127.081
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201127.081
ID  - Zeng2020
ER  -