Chinese Euphonics : Phonological Patterns, Phonorhetoric and Literary Artistry in Early Chinese Narrative Texts

Abstract

Supported by digital texts, modern technologies and historical linguistics, Chinese Euphonics is a dive into the types of sound patterns that occur throughout the earliest corpora of narrative texts in the Chinese canon, demonstrating how the phonetic structures preserved in these foundational texts functioned in concert with form and meaning to create a "phonorhetoric" designed to beautify and strengthen argumentation through the power of sound.