Study On The Semantic Field Of "Sew" In Chinese

The thesis described, compared and analyzed the members of Sewing semanticfiled, and discussed its developing process from pre-Qin Dynasty to Ming and QingDynasties, by using the quantitative and qualitative analysis, the combination ofsynchronic research and diachronic research, traditional exegetics as well as thetheory of modern semantic field theory. Linguistic materials were chosen from fourperiods: pre-Qin Dynasty, Han Wei Jin South and North Dynasties, Tang and SongDynasties, Yuan Ming and Qing Dynasties. Then we selected the most representativematerials of each period, surveyed and counted all monosyllables with the meaning ofsew. Next, we described the component situation of sewing semantic field in differentperiods, so we could find out the alternations of these words in the history. To explorethe law of their development, we diachronically compared sewing semantic field indifferent periods.The thesis can be divided into six parts. The first part is introduction, includingpresent situation of research, the purpose and meaning of this research, also methodsof research. In the second part, we described the change of sewing semantic field ofpre-Qin Dynasty with synchronic and diachronic perspectives. At the same time, wedivided Sewing semantic field into two sub-semantic fields: Mending semantic fieldand Making semantic field. Part three is about evolution of Sewing semantic field inHan Wei Jin South and North Dynasties, then compared it with pre-Qin Dynasty.Meanwhile, we analyzed the sub-semantic fields from two aspects: the emergence andapplication of new members, the heritage, development and disappearance of originalmembers. Part four investigated the development and change about each member ofsemantic field in Tang and Song Dynasties, and then compared it with Han Wei JinSouth and North Dynasties. Part five studied the development and change of semanticfield in Yuan Ming and Qing Dynasties. The last part is summary, we discussed somerules of the historical evolution of sewing semantic field.Making use of semantic field theory, to synchronically describe anddiachronically compared sewing semantic field, we could find and generalize the rulesof historical evolvement.