The rhetoric art of Chinese popular songs in Taiwan

• Main Authors: WU MEI WAN, 吳媺婉
• Other Authors: 張春榮
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60711849069741759319

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 語文教育學系碩士班 === 94 === Summary Chinese popular songs are the works that are closest to human life among all the literature forms. What entices the human heart most easily are songs which are audio-art. This article will discuss songs’ literary value and musical nature and make some systematical induction by making use of a characteristic of Chinese popular songs – easy to approach – and of a rhetoric angle. The discussion and induction can be helpful to offer another alternative teaching material in literature and language teaching. The article has six chapters as follows: The first chapter is an introduction, depicting research motivation, purpose and method and research scope and limits. The second chapter is a literature review, briefly talking about history of Chinese popular songs from 1949 to 2000 and also giving an arrangement of current research on Chinese popular songs. The third chapter is about the musical nature of the rhetoric of Chinese popular songs. Three approaches – level and oblique tones, rhymes, and rhythms – will be focused upon here in order to research about musical feeling that Chinese popular songs present. The fourth chapter is about the rhetorical theme of Chinese popular songs. All these songs will be divided into two categories – love and life. Songs’ literal meanings and musical nature will be concentrated on to make discussion. The fifth chapter is an expression of the art of Chinese popular songs. According to types of expressions remarked in Ching-shiuan Huang’s Rhetoric, all collected Chinese popular songs will be categorized into different categories. The sixth chapter involves conclusion and suggestion. The rhetoric art of Chinese popular songs will be induced. Suggestion for further research will be proposed. The rhetoric art that the article introduces in the article is as follows. Firstly, in respect of musical nature of Chinese popular songs, most of lyric lines of Chinese popular songs can have a mutual relation between level and oblique tones, disorder of syllables, and compatibility between rhymes and meanings of lyric lines. For this reason, listeners can feel the basic sense of the feeling that song writers would like to express according to words’ upwards and downwards pitches of sound. Secondly, in respect of theme rhetoric art of Chinese popular songs, whatever kinds of themes, expressions are used, the most often involve overlapped analogy, simile or metaphor, transformation, proposed question, pairing, parallelism, etc. Songs are a kind of art made through time. How songs can impress people needs design for elegant style such as overlapped analogy, pairing, and parallelism. How lyrical lines can appear clear and feeling can be involved with concreteness need metaphor and transformation as well as comparison’s adjustment of expression approaches at the same time. As for doubtfulness about feeling and life, the proposed question is a good way to go. Thirdly, in respect the of expression art of Chinese popular songs, Ching-shiuan Huang’s Rhetoric has thirty types of expressions. Expect analyzed words and hidden lyrics (which can hardly be found in songs) and exclamatory expressions and other twenty-seven types of expressions which can be easily found in Chinese popular songs. Among all these expressions, overlapped analogy, transformation and paring have the most cases; simile or metaphor, proposed question, exaggeration, set-off, parallelism, transition, and hyperbaton have quite a lot cases. Cultivated by popular songs, we not only live in the present moment’s time and space but also exist in the past time and space. Forefathers and modern people can feel the same way. Therefore, good songs can become widespread and be carried out from one generation to another as well as, more importantly, become very significant teaching material to attract young students.