The Research On The Kinship Terms Of Shixing Hakka Dialect

The kinship terms are the reflections on the language in kinship system, which in a simple form of words reflect the complexity of the kinship system. On one hand, the kinship terms reflect the linguistics feature of one place. On the other hand, it reflects the culture of that place. This paper makes some survey and researeh on the Shixing Hakka Dialect's kinship terms by the means of description, analysis, comparison. And it consists of the following three parts.Firstly, the paper based on the comprehensive investigation on ten points in Shixing, and we do a systematic description of the kinship terms in Shixing Hakka Dialect, and sum up some characteristics of Shixing Hakka Dialcet's kinship in three aspects:pronunciation, grammar, and pragmatics.Secondly, we study these kinship terms from different view of points, and summarize the distribution of each kind; then by comparing with the kinship terms of Meixian Hakka Dialect, we analyze the similarities and differences between the kinship terms of Shixing Hakka Dialect and the kinship terms of Meixian Hakka Dialect and Wengyuan Hakka Dialect. Based on the comparison with other Hakka dialects, we find out that the kinship terms of Shixing Hakka dialect uses comparatively older methods.Finally, through the comparison, we further indicate the charaeteristics of Shixing Hakka Dialect's kinship terms, explore the reasons in geographical variation, language contacting, and language dividing and so on.