摘要: | 「形聲字」是,以「意符」與「音符」所構成的漢字(第一章)。其「意符」表示的是「知性上的一般概念」(第二章),其「音符」表示的漢語單音節的聲音在漢語使用者裡面引起的是「身體上的具體感覺」(第三章)。故此,形聲字是,「漢字意符」表示的「知性上的一般概念」與「漢語聲音」引起的「身體上的具體感覺」邂逅的場所,也就是,其抽象的「知性上的一般概念」是與「身體上的具體感覺」連結起來,在這個具體的世界上被「再現(re-present)」出來的舞台(以下第四章)。形聲字通過「知性上的一般概念」與「身體上的具體感覺」的配合再現的是,有時間的這世界裡發生的一件「事(Event)」,或是,在其「事(Event)」裡我們接觸的「實際存在(Energeia、『實』現態)」。這「形聲字」的構造及其作用就在於,以視覺上表示「知性上的一般概念」的「漢字(意符)」與聽覺上引起「身體上的具體感覺」的「漢語聲音」之兩種認識系統來被構成的「中文(Chinese)」這認識系統本身的構造及其作用的基礎之上。
A phono-semantic compounds character is a type of Chinese characters consisting of a semantic radical and a phonetic radical (Chapter 1). The semantic radical, or a classifier indicates an intellectual, universal concept (Chapter 2); on the other hand, the phonetic radical indicates a Chinese monosyllabic sound, evoking a sensuous, concrete sense image in Chinese speakers (Chapter 3). Therefore, it can be said that a phono-semantic compounds character is a place in which an intellectual, universal concept indicated by the semantic radical and a sensuous, concrete sense image evoked by the Chinese monosyllabic sound meet, or a stage on which the intellectual, universal concept, being linked to the sensuous, concrete sense image, is “re-presented” (this and below contents in Chapter 4). Linking an intellectual, universal concept to a sensuous, concrete sense image, what a phono-semantic compounds character re-presents is an “event” happening in this real world in time or an actual thing (energeia) we meet in this event. This structure and mechanism of phono-semantic compounds characters are corresponding to those of what is called “Chinese,” consisting of two types of cognitive system: the system of Chinese characters (semantic radicals), which visually indicates an intellectual, universal concept and the system of (phonetic) Chinese language, which evokes a sensuous, concrete sense image in the speakers. |