A Quantitative and Comparative Study of Synonyms Between Malaysian “Huayu” and Mandarin

Zhou Lianying

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A Quantitative and Comparative Study of Synonyms Between Malaysian “Huayu” and Mandarin

Zhou Lianying

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 10, Issue 3)

Received: 12 April 2022 Accepted: 26 April 2022 Published: 10 May 2022

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Global Chinese also called global “Huayu” is a unique and valuable language resource in the world. Lexical differences are one of the prominent distinctions among Chinese variants in different Huayu communities, which are manifested in three cases—characteristic words, homographs and synonyms according to the similarities and differences between names and realities. Based on the Grand Global Chinese Dictionary, this paper establishes a database of synonyms among Malaysian Chinese and Mandarin which includes 529 items, and makes a quantitative comparative study on these synonymous words from the following five aspects: distribution of word classes, quantities of sememes, sources of loanwords, correspondence of alternative words and the convergence among Huayu communities. According to the statistics, the synonyms and notional words are mainly nouns, besides there are verbs, adjectives, quantifiers, onomatopoeia, distinguishing words and so on; most of them are monosyllabic words, meanwhile the polysemous words are mainly words with two sememes, and there are a few words with three or four sememes; the loanwords among them are derived from English in quantities, and mainly in the form of transliteration, partial transliteration or semantic transliteration; the quantitative correspondence is mostly one-to-one, and more are shared by two/three/four districts, reflecting the economic and cultural exchanges, language contact and integration of various Huayu communities. This paper shows the overall situation of synonymous words in Malaysian Chinese and Mandarin, which is conducive to breaking the lexical communication barriers in the language communication and will also provide important conditions for the information processing of Malaysian Chinese.

Published in	International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 10, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijll.20221003.13
Page(s)	186-191
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Malaysian “Huayu”, Mandarin, Synonymous Words, Difference and Integration

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