| Maiji district is a jurisdiction of Tianshui City,and its dialect belongs to the Weihe River Basin field of Longzhong area in the Zhongyuan Mandarin.This paper mainly studies the dialect vocabulary of the Tianshui Maiji(Baiyang Town)(It is called Maiji dialect in the following.)On the basis of extensive field investigation,this paper makes a detailed description of the vocabulary of the Maiji district dialect,compared with mandarin and ancient Chinese language,and the analysis of the word formation and the phonetic method.Besides,through the interpretation of the folk words,the conclusion summarizes the above description and analysis,and draws the characteristics of diversity,inheritance and uniqueness of the vocabulary of the Maiji dialect.The paper is divided into seven chapters.The introduction mainly introduces the general situation of Maiji’s geography,history and population,the present situation of the research,the reason of topic,the significance of the topic,the research objects,the research content,the research focus and difficulty,the research ideas,the research methods,the innovation,the pronunciation partner and the voice system of Maiji dialect.The second chapter compares the vocabulary of the Maiji dialect with the vocabulary of mandarin and reveals the characteristics of the vocabulary of the Maiji dialect in Word form and meaning two aspects,The word form is illustrated from two aspects of the internal form and the external form.The meaning is illustrated from three aspects of lexical meaning,grammatical meaning,and color meaning.On the basis of the previous chapter,the third chapter focuses on word-formation and word-creation and Summarizes the characteristics of word formation and the motivations.The fourth chapter traces the vocabulary of the Maiji dialect,and observes its inheritance to the ancient Chinese from the diachronic point of view.Traditional primary school theory is combined with modern linguistic methods to trace part of the dialect.The fifth chapter chooses some distinctive folk words to reveal its cultural connotation from the perspective of meaning.The sixth chapter is classification table of Maiji dialect vocabulary.According to semantics,the vocabulary of the Maiji dialect is divided into 30 categories.The conclusion summarizes the above description and analysis,and draws the characteristics of diversity,inheritance and uniqueness of the vocabulary of the Maiji dialect.Based on the real and reliable field investigation data,the paper makes a comprehensive analysis with reference to relevant literatures and papers,hoping to accumulate some information for the study of Tianshui dialect. |
