การศึกษาเปรียบเทียบสำนวนไทยกับสำนวนจ้วง

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Thai and Zhuang languages are both in the Tai language family branch Zhuang- Dong. The cooperation between Thailand and China became more strengthening because of China's Reform and opening-up policy; therefore, there are more Thai and Chinese or Zhuang people who are interested in comparative study of Thai and Zhuang idioms. The objective of this study was to compare the similarities and differences between Thai and Zhuang idioms as regarding to the classification, the characteristics and the reflection of society and culture by using the Contrastive-Comparative Linguistics theory and Sociolinguistics as a guiding theory of the analysis. The research results showed that there are so many similarities between Thai and Zhuang idioms including ways of classification, source of making idioms, characteristics in the structure, meaning and foreign idioms or reflections of the lifestyle, beliefs and values in many things. The differences between Thai and Zhuang idioms particularly show on the classification, rhyme types and foreign languages from which the foreign idioms are borrowed, the different animals or things that used as Metaphor to make same or different idiomatic meanings and the reflection of geography and Social Custom. Those similarities and differences between Thai and Zhuang idioms may cause by history, geography, roles of their nationalities and languages in society and language and culture derived from other nationalities.