The Semantic Evolution Of Chaoshan Dialect Words From" Chaozhou Operas In Ming Dynasty"

This article analyse the square words of Chaoshan’s etymology and Semantic evolution form the Ming dynasty of Chaozhou,"Litchi Story","Williams favorite Girl","Su Liuniang".On the one hand,explores the origin of Chaoshan square words,analyse the formation and development of square words by Contact linguistics theory,On the other hand,analyse the Semantic evolution of square words by Lexical items semantics.The Introduction main introduce The reason for topic selection,Corpus property of’Five kinds of Chaozhou Operas in Ming dynasty",Research purposes and Significance,Research review,Research method and Theoretical basis.The first chapter mian introduces the Geographical situation of Chaoshan,defines the square words of Chaoshan.Chaoshan dialect is the Sub-dialect of Min dialect.Chaoshan dialect is popuar in Shantou,Chaozhou,Jeiyang,and Lufeng in Guangdong province.The second chapter mian explores the origin of Chaoshan square words analyse the Semantic evolution of square words,includes Ancient Chinese,Minority language,Min Chinese and the new words of Chaoshan.Chaoshan dialect reserved archaic words’s acceptation from different periods,and increased,transferred acceptation to meet the needs of expression.The acceptation of Minority words and Min dialect words are stable.Created dialect words by word formation came into being.The third chapter summarizes the Semantic evolution in the second chapter,to gather statistics of Semantic evolution model,to explore the rule of Semantic evolution.The main evolution model is simplity from ancient times to Min Dynasty.The main evolution model is unchanged from Min Dynasty to contemporary.The fourlth chapter main analyse the Cause of formation,includes Chaoshan dialect Contacted with Ancient Chinese,Minority language,Min Chinese,the new words of Chaosthan and the factors of Semantic evolution.The factors includes objective social factor,language subject factor and internal language factor.