A Study On The Vocabulary Of Three Commercial Chinese Textbooks In The Meiji Period Of Japan

The Meiji period(1868-1912)was an important period for the development of modern Japanese society.Due to political and economic needs,Japan developed a wave of learning Chinese and produced a series of profoundly influential Chinese textbooks.This thesis intends to study the vocabulary of three representative commercial Chinese textbooks during the Meiji period in Japan,"Beijing Mandarin Japanese and Qing Business Conversation","Yanyu Business Jinluo",and "Twentieth Century Qingyu Reader",based on the vocabulary classification,The characteristics of vocabulary and the value of vocabulary are investigated in Japanese Meiji period commercial Chinese textbooks.The content of the paper is designed as follows:The first chapter is the introduction.Mainly introduce the research purpose and significance of the thesis,determine the research object and scope,comb the current research status of Chinese textbooks in the Meiji period in Japan,and finally introduce the research methods and corpus sources of this article.The second chapter is the lexical classification of three business textbooks in Meiji period of Japan.This paper mainly studies the basic parts of speech in the 20 th Century Qing Readings,Beijing Mandarin Japanese Qing Business Conversations,and Yan Language Business Links,including noun,pronoun,adverb and other content words,prepositions,conjunctions,auxiliary words and other function words.The representative or special parts of speech are analyzed statistically.The third chapter is the characteristic vocabulary of the three business textbooks in Meiji period.This paper mainly sorts out the characteristic words in the 20 th century Qing readership,Beijing mandarin riqing business conversation,and Yan language business links,including business words,polite words,four-character words,the same element and different order words.And the comprehensive comparison and analysis of the characteristic words in three Chinese textbooks.The fourth chapter is the lexical value of the three business textbooks in Meiji period.On the one hand,when sorting out the words in "20th century Qing language readbook","Beijing mandarin Japanese Qing business conversation" and "Yan language business links",we find that some words can provide corpus and documentary evidence for the study of Chinese lexical history.On the other hand,it is of certain reference value for the compilation of Chinese textbooks to explain the choice of words from three aspects of applicability,practicability and culture.The fifth chapter is the conclusion.Based on the research in Chapters 2,3 and 4,the thesis is summarized.This paper summarizes the characteristics of lexical classification of commercial Chinese textbooks in the Meiji period of Japan,the language features reflected by characteristic words and the research value of words.