Studies On "Japanese-Qing Conversation Dictionary" From Phonetic Perspective

Japanese-Qing Conversation Dictionary, it is a reference book and text book for Japanese learning the last epoch of Qing Dynasty Beijing Mandarin compiled by Chinese and Japanese scholars. It is an important work about the nineteenth century's Hesperian depictive linguistics and comparative linguistics combining with the research of Beijing Mandarin. Japanese katakana and Roman words are used in this book to note the pronunciation, which reflects the characteristic of phonetic system about the last epoch of Qing Dynasty Beijing Mandarin .Through painstaking research it is to probe into Qing Dynasty situation, language orbit that development developed of language, which have important value.But academia is limited in introducing synoptically to research on Japanese-Qing Conversation Dictionary at present. This text attempts to adopt the comparatively scientific analytical and statistical method on the basis of forefathers , carry on the overall and careful discussion to this book. In order to expect to arouse the attention from academia, offer material gists for the discussion in the future.This text is divided into four chapters altogether:Chapter one, introduction. This chapter is divided into three parts to discuss: First, introduce Japanese-Qing Conversation Dictionary general conditions, author, book time, publish, style and historical backdrop of writing and make everybody have an overall understanding to this book; Second, through study value and analysis of studying current situation to this book, prove the academia is not overall and careful enough in study on Japanese-Qing Conversation Dictionary at present, thus to affirm the important meaning about the research of this book; Third, to interpret the thinking and the research approach, for instance, the comparative method of the chart, statistic method ,etc.Chapter two, the writing frame and the mark symbols of pronunciation. This chapter is divided into two parts to discuss: First, introduce its writing frame, thus analyse its writing intention. Second, introduce the mark symbols of pronunciation in this book. Japanese katakana and Roman words are more important. Then, explain the method of noting the pronunciation particularly.Chapter three, the specific analysis on the phonetic systems. This chapter is divided into three parts to discuss: analyse the characteristics of its initial consonant system, the rhyme system and the tone system. On the basis of these, we can definite its phonetic system.