Sichuan Jianyang Hakka Dialect Research-A Case Study of Tashui Zhen

• Main Authors: Yu-hua Zheng, 鄭玉華
• Other Authors: Xiu-qi Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05709582911453890406

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 客家語文研究所 === 101 === The Hakka dialect in Sichuan is the product of the immigration policy during Ming and Ching Dynasty, so far, it has become one of the influential Chinese dialects in Sichuan. This thesis emphasizes on the hakka dialect of Tashui Zhen(踏水鎮),a town in Sichuan Jianyang(簡陽).The materials of Tashui hakka dialect are investigated and written, Tashui hakka dialect ,which came from Guangdong Wuhua(五華), we discuss the phonological and lexical characteristics of Tashui dialect ,that shows the differences between the origin country Wuhua and the new settlement Tashui. The Mandarinization of Tashui dialect reveals a unique point that attracts our attention, we regard it as the product of language contact because the intense interaction has shown us the compromise with the southwest Mandarin. This thesis is divided into seven chapters, it contains phonology and lexicon discussion, but we mainly focus on the former, the latter is auxiliary. The first chapter is the introduction which explains the motivation ,purpose, research method, procedure, bibliography of related articles, as well as brief situation of Sichuan history and geography, where hakka dialect spread in Sichuan, and simple information of utterance speakers. The second chapter represents the phonetic system of Tashui dialect, the initials, finals, tones and the special tone sandhi. The historical phonology is shown in Chapter three, we compare the Tashui dialect with middle Chinese phonetic system, after comparing, all the phonological characteristics contribute to the fourth chapter.we found out that some features remains, such as sang tone (上聲) in ancient Qu (去聲) with voiced initial. However, it also influenced by southwest Mandarin (西南官話), such as in finals (陰聲韻)with yang finals(陽聲韻)and Velar nasal consonant “-“ appears in ing (影母). The comparison between Wuhua and Tashui dialect is discussed in chapter five, including phonology, lexicons, even the morphology, generally speaking, the massive change alters beyond recognition. The chapter six talks about the Tashui lexicons, hakka dialectal feature words are still used, but the obvious Mandarinization phenomena show a big impact on Sichuan hakka dialects. Briefly speaking, there are five lexical features in Tashui dialect：(1) the impact of language contact(2) various lexicon statement and detail categories (3)cultural change (4)environmental constraint (5) reduplication word formation. The Chapter seven is the conclusion, to sum up the phonology and lexical features of Tashui dialect, Finally, an examination of the shortcomings of this study and possible future advices are provided to make further development of Sichuan hakka dialects.