Sunday, February 19, 2012
Exhibit Hall A-B1 (VCC West Building)
In this paper the author reports such a result of the research, namely: the unclear object of study in general linguistics, which takes the Indo-European languages as examples, yields more satisfactory results through using basic methods of value-taking and confidence-building of language by the author’s fundamental research in general linguistics taking Chinese language as an example, particularly in exploring how to solve the sharp conflict between two schools of scholars among workers, who adhere to Chinese character based linguist theory and word based linguist theory respectively. Specifically, the purpose of this paper is to solve the conflict between both Chinese character based view and word based view by using the basic unit of Chinese theory. The significance of the paper lies not only in solving the fundamental problem in theory research of Chinese, but also in general linguistics. The research methods are combined by the methods of value-taking and confidence-building of language, which are reflected in the author’s fundamental research in general linguistics taking Chinese language as an example.