新加坡华语特色词语考察——以《联合早报》为例.pdf

2005 273 Abstract The article collects 273 Singaporean Chinese special words from Singapore’s Lianhe Zaobao , and analyses these words from different point of views. And find that the Singaporean Chinese word has strong compatibility; the author also gives her prospect to the development of the Singaporean Chinese word. The article classifies the collected words into two groups: the words that have corresponding words in Mandarin and that have not. The first group includes the words that have the same referent with different morphologies and those have the same morphology with different meaning. The article analyses the former kind from the difference in choosing morpheme, and analyses the second kind from the different changes of the lexical meaning in Singaporean Chinese and Mandarin. The words that have no corresponding morphologies in Mandarin can be detached into two sorts. One are the words which reflect some domains of the Singapore society, while the other are the words which are