馬來西亞華語特有詞語考察：以《馬來西亞華語特有詞語詞典》為例

文章以《馬來西亞華語特有詞語詞典》為例,將馬來西亞華語特有詞語分為三類: 本土詞語、異稱詞語、同稱詞語。進而提出分析特有詞語的四個維度: 歷時—共時、書面語—口語、共同語—方言、外語—華語。最後提煉出馬來西亞華語特有詞語的三個特點: 變異性、多元性、變動性。文章認為馬來西亞華語極具特色,體現了全球華語的跨區交流與融合。

This paper categorizes those characteristic lexicon in Malaysian Chinese into three categories based on the entries in The Dictionary of Malaysian Chinese (Huayu), which are local lexicon, heteromorphic lexicon, and homographic lexicon. Further, a four-dimension analysis of these lexicon is proposed: diachronicsynchronic dimension, written-oral dimension, lingua franca-dialect dimension, and foreign-Chinese language dimension. The discussion leads to the refining of three features of Malaysian Chinese, which are variability, diversity, and changeability. The paper concludes that Malaysian Chinese is of characteristics and manifests the cross-regional communication and integration of global Chinese. Copyright © 2022 Global Chinese. All rights reserved.