NOSTALGIA 懷古懷古
YEARN for SITUATIONS IN the PAST as GOOD:better IN-RELATION-TO NOW:the-present.
Antonym
- HAPPYCOMPLETELY DELIGHTED with one's SELF:own LIFE.
Hypernym
- SADDISTRESS ARISING from BAD THOUGHTS NOW IN ONE'S MIND which CAUSE one to LACK DELIGHT:joy.NB: The words I have chosen to include in this group pose special problems of contrastive analysis. There is something irretrievably diffuse about their usage, in many cases, and in many others the number of relevant examples in the early literature is so small that it is impossible to get anything like a firm grip on their precise semantics. Under these circumstances I have tried to compensate for lack of neat analysis with more quotation, especially from Chǔcí. Throughout this section I quote my teacher David Hawkes' translations, mindful of the fact that many of these were written in the third year of his study of Chinese...
Modern Chinese Criteria
rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH /
Old Chinese Contrasts
1. YEARN FOR THE PAST,
2. BE DISSATISFIED WITH THE PRESENT,
3. AND DESPAIR ABOUT THE FUTURE
- Le concept de nostalgie Diogene ( STAROBINSKI 1966) p.
- C'était mieux avant ( JERPHAGNON 2012) p.
- L'irréversible et la nostalgie ( JANKELEVITCH 1983) p.
Words
懷古 huái gǔ OC: ɡruul kaaʔ MC: ɦɣɛi kuo̝ 0 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- NPabpsychnostalig longing
- VPipsychfeel nostalgia; feel nostalgic
懷舊 huái jiù OC: ɡruul ɡus MC: ɦɣɛi gɨu 0 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- NPabpsychnostalgia
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