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Problems With Universal Metrics : = Evidence From Chinese Recent-Style Verse (Jinti shi) and Japanese Haiku.

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Title/Author:	Problems With Universal Metrics :/
Reminder of title:	Evidence From Chinese Recent-Style Verse (Jinti shi) and Japanese Haiku.
Author:	Zhan, Bo.
Description:	1 online resource (193 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: A.
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Subject:	Linguistics. -
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ISBN:	9798379520939

Problems With Universal Metrics : = Evidence From Chinese Recent-Style Verse (Jinti shi) and Japanese Haiku.
Zhan, Bo.

Problems With Universal Metrics :Evidence From Chinese Recent-Style Verse (Jinti shi) and Japanese Haiku. - 1 online resource (193 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation aims to examine the problem of universal metrics developed with English sonnets by analyzing meter in Japanese and Chinese metrical verse (e.g., haiku and recent-style verse). Following Martin (2007), haiku in this study is defined as a traditional form of Japanese poetry consisting of three lines, with seventeen metrical units per verse arranged in a pattern of five, seven, and five units per line. It can stand alone as an independent verse or be a stanza within a longer verse. The data reveals that a system with metrical prominence cannot be applied to Chinese and Japanese metrical verse since linguistic prominence is missing in both of these languages. Moreover, the differences among metrical systems in English, Chinese, and Japanese further suggest a relationship between meter and language. Namely, although metrical hierarchy in verse is relevant to prosodic hierarchy in a language, the two should be distinguished, and different languages may have different metrical hierarchies. For languages that have linguistic prominence, the metrical structure in a verse is based on that particular language's metrical structure. However, for languages that lack metrical prominence, the metrical structure in a verse is based on the language's prosodic structure.Chapter Two provides a detailed description of this study's methodology and the data obtained through an analysis of the metrical structure of Chinese and Japanese verse. In Chapter Three, I examine the meter of Chinese recent-style verse by analyzing data from recent-style verses written by four early Tang poets and comparing them with Nineteen Ancient Poems. Through this analysis, I confirm that the meter of Chinese recent-style verse has tonal contrast within both a line and a couplet and that the alternation of two tonal categories should involve at least four syllables. In Chapter Four, I discuss meter in Japanese early modern haiku and modern haiku by examining haiku from two poetic anthologies. The first is The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology which includes 231 poems by 48 poets whom Bowers labels as representative of the period from 1488 to 1902. The second is Well-Versed: Exploring Modern Japanese Haiku, which includes 300 haiku by 300 poets who lived from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. Through this examination, I discover that the main poetic unit in Japanese is still mora, and the distribution of special moras (or the pattern of heavy and light syllables) remains random. Then, in Chapter Five, I compare English metrical systems with those in Chinese and Japanese and explain why previous studies that apply universal metrics cannot account for the Chinese and Japanese datasets in this study. In Chapter Six, I extend my discussion to the relationship between language and meter and focus on the following points. First, different languages should have different metrical structures, since a metrical foot exists only in English and Chinese, and a metrical colon only exists in English. Second, the metrical structure of a verse should be distinguished from the metrical structure and the prosodic structure of a language. Third, different rules in verses of different languages are associated with the properties of that language. Fourth, my analysis of Chinese, English, and Japanese meter reveals that a common feature shared by the three systems is that syllables in the three languages can be partitioned into two categories. The contrast between these two categories then contributes at some degree to the formation of each metrical system in verse.Chapter Seven summarizes the main findings and limitations of this study. It also suggests two future research directions: 1) to identify the metrical units of verses in different languages and 2) to summarize the relationship between metrical and prosodic hierarchies, explore how they interact with each other, and verify whether there is a universal metrical hierarchy as Kiparsky (2020) proposes.

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ISBN: 9798379520939Subjects--Topical Terms:

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