Language Variant Of The Hong Kong Chinese-language Newspaper In The Twentieth Century

1. The value of opening this topicHong Kong's special social course has determined the special attribute of Hong Kong's Cantonese. The Hong Kong society's language resource is extremely rich. The Chinese newspaper as the main media which circulates in the Hong Kong society, is the main platform and the main performance channel of this special language phenomenon. It not only influences society's folklore and livelihood of the people, moreover, it has affected the language ecology. It manifests the concrete characteristic of language in the development, the language contact, the language transfer process and the variation. The linguistics world and language researcher highly valued the Chinese newspaper when studying Hong Kong the special language phenomenon. In the academic research of the Hong Kong Cantonese language history, the Chinese newspaper has the vital significance.Cantonese's research had surpasses 200 years history, today it develops into an international topic. Although there have been many famous works in this topic, but there is not yet any works using the Hong Kong Chinese newspapers' historical development angle, systematically studies the variation process of Hong Kong Cantonese. From the late Qing dynasty's "Dialect, classical Han and folk terminology style(三及第文体)",to the Hong Kong-style Chinese today, we can see the spoken language enters the article. The Hong Kong Chinese newspaper may be called a complete Hong Kong Cantonese history.Therefore, Hong Kong's language research should promote to the language theory level. This topic attempts to take the Hong Kong 20th century's 100 years Chinese newspaper as the language material, unifies the Hong Kong society's development history, by using the social linguistics and the applied linguistics theory, and the research methodology of social linguistics, sociology as well as news reporting, systematically studies the Hong Kong Cantonese's generation, development and the evolution rule, excavates the social factor in the Cantonese dialect glossary, tracing newspaper glossary changes along with the society, promulgates the grammar, the glossary phenomenon, the application characteristic and its rule. Theoretically, it may supplement, enrich the theory content of the Hong Kong Cantonese studies, and provides thetheory basis for the Hong Kong language development and making the language policy; In the application, regarding the standardization of the Hong Kong style Chinese, connecting the Hong Kong-style Chinese and standard modern Chinese. Especially under the social environment of "one country two systems', it helps deal with the relations of two written languages and three spoken languages, and to draw up a new language policy. It can integrate the standard modern Chinese into the Hong Kong society and manifest the national sovereignty, at the same time it can maintain its unique social individuality, moreover to help to develop its characteristic of an international metropolis, and it has the significant practical meaning. Moreover, research on the combination of theory and application, is a new way of Hong Kong Guangdong dialect research.2. The main content of the essayFull text approximately 120,000 characters, altogether divide into 6 chapters:● First chapter - Foreword● Second chapter - Main stages of newspaper terminology's variation● Third chapter - Characteristics of the glossary● Fourth chapter - Characteristics of the variation of language usage● Fifth chapter - Characteristics of grammar● Sixth chapter - Social cause of language variation and conclusion● Attachment and reference3. Innovation points(1) First time using the historical angle to study the variation of the last 100 years' Hong Kong newspaper language.(2) By the prosperity and decline of "Dialect, classical Han and folk terminology style(三及第文体)" and the generation of "Hong Kong-style Chinese", promulgates the Hong Kong newspaper language from the quantitative change to the qualitative change.(3) Use interview method to conduct the linguistics research.(4) The Hon...