Author(s)

Yu Deying ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing, Guangdong, China

Corresponding Author

Yu Deying

ABSTRACT

The Comprehension of the Trade Language Between Chinese and Barbarians is the first conversational English textbook that uses Cantonese dialect to annotate the pronunciation of English. Its compilation style follows the Red- Haired Barbarian Talk published in Guangzhou in the 1830s, which only lists Chinese original words and uses Chinese characters to annotate English pronunciation, without recording the original English words; In terms of textbook content, it mainly focuses on English vocabulary and sentences commonly used in trade, and its length greatly exceeds that of the Red- Haired Barbarian Talk; In terms of textbook features, it is an English conversational textbook based on the grammatical framework of the Cantonese dialect. Compared with other Chinese- character-annotated English textbooks compiled in the same period, the compilation level of the Comprehension of the Trade Language Between Chinese and Barbarians is not high, but it truly shows the whole picture of the "Cantonese English" textbook at that time, laying the foundation for the compilation and dissemination of the "Chinese Pigeon English" textbook.

KEYWORDS

Chinese character annotation, conversational textbook, Cantonese English, content of the textbook, features of compilation, the Red-Haired Barbarians' Talk

CITE THIS PAPER

Yu Deying, A Study on the Comprehension of the Trade Language between Chinese and Barbarians. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 144-151. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070721.

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