Abstract
The article aims to, based on the study of “Spells” (or “Fuzhou”, 符咒, including the magic figures and incantations), find out the relationship of “Fu” (符, talisman1), “Zhou” (咒, incantations)” and “language worship” (including written language and oral language). There is an in-depth probe into “language worship”, and the clarification of the term “Fu” and “Fushu” (the use of Fu), “Zhou” and “Zhoushu” (the use of Zhou), no matter in a narrow sense or a broad one. In addition, the differentiation of language, “language worship” and “Spells” has been achieved via symbols and their symbolization. The final conclusion of such study shows that language worship is the process of language symbolization, and spells, in essence, is the symbol of language.
Highlights
Throughout the world, the “language worship” occurs as a common phenomenon in all kinds of cultures
Yuan and Li seem to be more and more scarce nowadays, they exist in everyone’s life in a broader sense, such as Spring Festival couplets, Shigandang, swearwords, homonyms and other writing, and speech acts
Language worship is a kind of cultural phenomenon Shared by all nationalities at home and abroad
Summary
As for language, Ferdinand de Saussure, the most important linguist in the 20th century, regarded language as the general model and a set of abstract rules of speech activities of a speech group, and defined it as follows:. Language is regarded as a tool for speaking and expressing ideas Based on these definitions of “language”, we can discuss the problem of “language worship”. Language worship is a kind of cultural phenomenon Shared by all nationalities at home and abroad This kind of phenomenon is not directly to Saussure and others described the “language” of worship, but not solely limited to the narrow sense of the worship of normal express (known as “natural language”)—the term “language worship” as an expression of aggregation of later scholars to a similar phenomenon, including the language itself and its extension and its symbol of worship (such as text, voice, etc.). The most critical aspect of language worship is the belief in the assumption that language affects people
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