Mongolian And History Of Contact With The Mongolian Language And Culture Changes

This dissertation uses chaos theory and method of systematic science, and from points of view of historical contact between Mongolian and Han Chinese to discuss systematic changes among natural geography and social environment. I analyze three types of origin of Mongolian language and culture using reliable archeology, legendary, and historical documentary evidences. From the relationship between material culture and changes of spiritual cultures with language and culture, I systematically explore changes of prototype, transition and subculture of Mongolian language and culture in China. I also discuss how Chinese language and culture influences Mongolian language and culture throughout analysis of sound, grammatical and lexical changes. Finally, I prospect for study of Mongolian language and culture in the future. This thesis contains five chapters:Chapter 1 introduces framework of Prof. Zhang's chaos theory and method of cultural linguistics, and uses this framework to explore society, history, politics and economy of Mongolian culture. This chapter also provides historical contact between Mongolian and Han Chinese, which results in co-existence of husbandry, semi-husbandry and semi-cultivation, and cultivation types of Mongolian language and culture. It also introduces target of this study, significance of this study, previous research, and theory and research methodology. I propose nomadic language and culture is prototype of Mongolian language and culture, semi-husbandry and semi-cultivation language and culture is transition of prototype, and cultivation language and culture is sub-culture. In this chapter, I emphasize on three language and cultural types in whichdominant language influences deprived language, save and preserve mother tongue, significant influence of Mongolian language and cultural changes, etc.In chapter 2, we analyze origins of three types of Mongolian language and culture: firstly, I propose prototype of Mongolian language and culture is resulted from absorbing Xiongnu, Xianbei, Rouran, Tujue, Huihu, Qidan, and Nuzhen languages and cultuers in terms of archeology, Myth, legend and history of communication of ethnic groups and influences each other. It is also an inevitable outcome of natural environment and social environment of Mobley prairie. Secondly, I come up with transition of prototype resulting from semi-husbandry and semi-cultivation, and argriculturalization. At the same time, I provide natural condition for cultivation and husbandry. Not only is it the chaotic area of natural world, but it is a hybrid of arable and nomadic cultural area as well. Mongolian who inhabit in Mona are heirs of Iambi, Quean and Noshed chaotic culture. Finally, as for sub-culture, I focus on population asymmetry between Mongolian and Han Chinese in Mongolian area since the end of Qing dynasty and the beginning of Republic of China. It promotes Mongolian learning and accepting Han Chinese culture with increases of agricultural economy and Han agricultural population, and causes to Mongolian language and culture shift from semi-cultivation and semi-husbandry culture to cultivation completely.In chapter 3, I use the framework of language and culture isomorphism to discuss linguistic realization of material culture changes and spiritual culture changes. I show differences of three types of husbandry, semi-cultivation and semi-husbandry, and cultivation areas throughout in-depth analysis of material cultures, such as clothing, foodsand drinks, dwellings, and manufacture, and spiritual cultures, i.e. society, religion, law, marriage, naming and kinship system, etc.Chapter 4 studies variations of Mongolian language and culture from linguistic element perspectives, concentrating on different realizations of linguistic elements in terms of analysis of sound, grammar and lexicon of Mongolian.Chapter 5 is the final part of this dissertation, we discuss inevitability of combining agricultural culture with husbandry culture in Mongolian area to explore current status of Mongolian language and culture. Finally, we...