Language Contact And Lexical Substitution

Social linguistics emphasizes the diversity of languages, and linguistic diversity of individuals and society between the origin of language contact. Research on language contact has always been an important part of sociolinguistics, but also a focus of social linguistics. Language or dialect language contact is the driving force of evolution and development Language or dialect language contact is the driving force of evolution and development. With the popularization of Putonghua, contact Ruian dialect and Mandarin is becoming frequent. Under the influence in Mandarin, dialects Ruian mutated, the traditional dialect research methods alone is difficult to make a clear description and a reasonable explanation, the need to combine the methods of social linguistics.The purpose of this research is:from the perspective of lexical replacement, of the contact Ruian Dialect and language variation produced. Attempts to explore the process of vocabulary substitution occurred, and in the process of age, education level, gender, occupation, region and other factors influence the process of vocabulary substitution. More depth by comparing the current situation of language description, find out the terms of the direct and indirect causes of replacement.This paper consists of five parts. In the first chapter briefly introduced the research background, domestic and international research profile, value and significance of this research, research methods and sources with the corpus. The second chapter introduces the demographic profile of Ruian geography, history, Ruian dialect profiles. The third chapter, through field investigation, on replacement Dialects Ruian gave a detailed description and analysis of general vocabulary consists of replacing the survey and investigation of special words replaced. Replace the general survey of the main terms with age, sex, occupation, education, region and other social factors on nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, quantifiers, respectively, investigation and analysis; replace the investigation of special words in the main dialects of the folk Ruian vocabulary and farming conditions and terms the reasons for the replacement of a preliminary study. Chapter IV, from the types and causes of vocabulary replacement to further explore the situation of dialect vocabulary replacement, will replace the type into the disappearance of old words, new words and semantic transfer the production of three categories. Replacement reasons and social factors from the language contact to discuss other aspects of departure. Chapter five major aspects of language use from the start of term occurrence of replacement survey of other reasons. Conclusion part of the dialect words to replace Ruian summed up the characteristics of the overall trend of language variation, and propose future research should pay attention to.