The Father Of Chinese Modern Semiotics “Yuenren Chao” And His Symbology Thoughts

Abstract

Yuenren Chao is the father of Chinese linguistics and the pioneer in the field of Chinese semiotics in modern time. His early exploration in a science of symbology, which shows his unique semiotic ideas integrated with Eastern and Western thinking modes, has not attracted much attention of the Chinese semiotics researchers until in the new century, and his later studies on language symbolic system, which reflects his linguistic, philosophical, artistic and scientific talents, has not been completely understood by the world semiotics circles. This paper intends to do a text analysis of Chao’s representative literatures on symbology, in order to make semiotics scholars know more about the essence of Chao’s macro symbolic thoughts and micro interpretations of symbols, so as to facilitate the innovation and development of Chinese modern semiotics in the new era.