Abstract:

The "threediscourse" in the book of Zhuangzi, that is, "Yuyan", "Chongyan" and "Zhiyan", have a very important theoretical value, the essential meanings of which are as follows: (1) "Yuyan", as a kind of fictive words, displays externally a dialogue; (2) "Chongyan" is others'  words that can express the viewpoint of Zhuangzi himself; (3) "Zhiyan" is one' s own words directly describing or presenting things. The "threediscourse" is the classification of discourse from the dimension of Communication, being basically consistent with the classification of discourse from the dimension of paralinguistics. This fact indicates that Zhuangzi' s language concept, both advance and simple, should take an important part in China' s history of literary theory.
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Key words: Zhuangzi; "Three discourse"; Bakhtin; matalinguistics