文化语言学视角下的木央苗语亲属称谓词研究

A Study of Kinship Appellative Words in Muyang Hmong Language from the Perspective of Cultural Linguistics

亲属称谓词的构成和发展,蕴藏着一定的文化内涵,体现了语言是文化的载体。苗语亲属称谓词不仅反映了血缘关系的亲属远近和历史的文化痕迹,更是苗族社会制度发展的一种反映形式。基于文化语言学视角,梳理木央苗语亲属称谓的历史发展进程,揭示其蕴含的“古代婚姻家庭形态”和“母系氏族制”的文化痕迹,分析其“尊亲敬长”“幼子继承制”“长嫂如母”等文化内涵。

The formation and development of kinship appellative words contain certain cultural connotation,which shows that language is the carrier of culture.The appellative terms of kinship in Hmong language reflect not only the distance of kinship and the cultural traces of history,but also the development of Hmong social system.From the perspective of cultural linguistics,this paper combs the historical development process of kinship appellations in Muyang Hmong language,reveals the cultural traces of“ancient marriage and family form”and“matriarchal clan system”contained in it,and analyzes its cultural connotations such as“respecting relatives and elders”,“inheritance system of younger children”and“elder wives like mothers”.