Thai Chinese Loanwords

Loan word is the result of language contact, meanwhilelanguage contact is the result of cultural exchange,andcultural contact supposed to be a topic．The study of loanword origin is the basis of thisstudy．There are a lot of Thai loanwords that by theirpronunciation, intonation and other characteristics could be abasis source for Thai linguist to determine the ancient Thaiwords．If some word at the same time appears in multiplelanguages,we must use common phonetics through proximity andcultural background to examine．This thesis is based on the 700 years history of China andThailand and from the unique prospect of Chinese overseapeople's culture to analyse these Three aspects"The Originof Chinese loan words in Thai language","The speechformation and examples of Chinese loan words in ThaiLanguage"and"The Semantic Analysis of Chinese loan words inThai language"．In this thesis,the collection of writings both from Chinaand foreign country will be the object of the research whichtries to expound the features of Chinese loan words in Thai language from multiangles．The first chapter is about The overview of Chinese loanwords in Thai language．This chapter is divided into"The overview of Chinese loanword in Thai language","The reasons for borrowing thewords","The role of lexical borrowing","Types andCharacteristics of loan word"．This chapter discusses the caseof Chinese immigrants to Thailand,from the first dynasty ofThailand-Sukhothai dynasty,China and Thailand began to haveprivate and official trade．After the Ming Dynasty,there weremore frequent exchanges between each other,expanding the scopeof trade, and promote cultural exchanges between the twocountries．Until the Second Dynasty of Thailand-Thonburidynasty, the King Taksin whose father was overseas Chinese fromChaozhou province,at this time,be regarded as the first time inthe history that the large number of Chinese emigrated toThailand,and then the second time after the second worldwar．As the result of exposure to language and culture,Thelarge sum of Chinese loan words has been absorbed into Thaisociety．The second chapter is about The speech formation andexamples of Chinese loan words in Thai Language．The chapter isdivided into"Transliteration words","free translation""Semitransliteration and free translation words","Newwords"and"Partial translation words"．Through many types and numbers of example Chinese loan words,we found the deeprelationship and the promotion of cultural exchanges betweenthe two countries．The third chapter is about The Semantic Analysis of Chineseloan words in Thai language．This chapter the semantic evolution of the Chinese loanwords in modern Thai would be fundamentally focused on ,andChinese dialects would be used as a tool to analyze．From thesemantics and Thai cultural background,I can analyze the abovecondition into"The Chinese loan words with the originalmeaning and Thai style new meaning"and"The Chinese loan wordswith only Thai style new meaning．While analyzing thisresearch,I could summarize more features about these Chineseloan words from their background and characteristics,also probeinto the the concrete factors which influence Chinese loanwords in Thai language study,especially the Chinesedialectology．Moreover,I strive for presenting Chinese loanwords in Thai language study as the distinguishing feature andimportant position that can give help to Chinese languageTeaching as a foreign language in Thailand．...