The Study On Special Words Of Singaporean Chinese

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 universally used in Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan, but not in Chinese mainland .As for the source of Singaporean Chinese, besides the words that are autochthonous of Singapore, it also has absorbed large mounts of words that come from Cantonese, Min dialect, English, Malay and Chinese used before 1949.Seeing from the open acceptant system of its glossary, Singaporean Chinese glossary has strong compatibility. New Singaporean Chinese special words will be produced continually, and some of these old words will span their own district and become the words that are shared in different districts. What's more, with the development of communication, more deep understanding of special Chinese words in different areas and the development of language itself, the "exchange" between Singaporean Chinese and Mandarin words will expand further.