| The paper takes the kinship appellatives of the Southwest Official Dialects of Chongqing and Hubei in Sichuan and Hubei as the object of study.Based on the interdisciplinary background of linguistics,the paper uses linguistic geography,historical sociology and evolutionary linguistics based on computational mathematics and information technology to study the kinship appellatives of Southwest Official Dialects,and a total of 58 types of kinship appellatives are selected for analysis.After collating the kinship terms collected from the dialects,papers and field surveys,the selected kinship terms were studied from four aspects: geographical distribution,historical level,evolutionary process and diffusion process.The paper first analyzes the geographical distribution of 58 types of kinship appellations in Chongqing,Sichuan and Hubei,generates a geographical distribution map using information technology,analyzes the geographical distribution patterns and dialectal partitions of the different forms of kinship appellations as reflected in the map,and finally concludes that these appellations are mainly cross-distributed and the closer the kinship appellations are,the more they have the same forms of appellation.Secondly,using the existing documentary corpus,the historical hierarchy of these58 types of kinship appellations was organized to determine the chronology of each appellation,and a historical hierarchy map was generated.Some of these forms with earlier generation dates and more stable use also have more dialect points,and some words with earlier appearance dates and less common use are generally located at the edge of Sichuan Chongqing and Hubei.Again,the evolutionary model is used to generate a neighboring evolutionary tree,analyze the ways of address contained in the evolutionary tree hierarchy,and conceptualize the evolutionary process of appellative words,and the final results of the evolutionary tree support the diffusion of appellative words from Hubei region to Sichuan-Chongqing.Finally,the diffusion process of kinship appellatives in Sichuan-Chongqing and Hubei was summarized and concluded by combining geographical distribution,historical hierarchy and evolutionary model.The diffusion process is basically consistent with the results obtained from the evolutionary process.From the spatial point of view,the direction of diffusion is from Hubei to Sichuan Chongqing,from north to south and from west to east,and from the temporal point of view,the diffusion pattern basically follows the principle that the later emerged appellative forms gradually replace the ancient appellative forms. |
