A Study on Linguistic Features in Contrastive Parallel - Structured Sentences
Nguyen Van Thao · Education Journal · 2020
Contrastive parallel-structured sentence (CPSS) is a kind of Vietnamese traditional artistic literature originated from China.Its uniqueness is exclusively manifested by two semantically structured sentences.The first sentence is called the given proposition, and the second is modulated as the opposed proposition.Linguistic units employed in a CPSS are concise, condensed and highly suggestive in their content and form.Normally, the CPSS is composed by a person who delivers 'given proposition', and another person who opposes it with an 'opposed proposition'.However, in other cases, there is also a CPSS made by an individual only.One of the most typical and celebrated of such authors who had composed a great numbers of CPSS was Nguyen Khuyen.Most of the linguistic units used in Nguyen Khuyen's Chinese-based CPSS are in opposition rules including: word-formation (single words, compound words, etc.), parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.), phrases (noun phrases, verb phrases, etc.), sentences (single sentences, single sentences with auxiliary components etc.), idioms, proverbs, etc.By flexibly using many artistic aspects of language materials, Nguyen Khuyen had proved that there were no Chinese-based CPSS could create difficulties to him.In addition, the author had a very liberal view and pen ignoring many small errors in regular CPSS to create profound meanings through the phenomenon of homonymy and the semantic field.Moreover, the author also created many diverse, wealthy and flexible CPSS by using his excellent vocabulary to convey a greater, deeper and wider meaning than the modest form within other CPSS.