Genre Study of Network Language
Source: Shangpin China |
Type: website encyclopedia |
Date: August 21, 2012
Beijing website construction The company advocates the quality of China: Since the emergence of online language, it has aroused widespread concern in the linguistic and educational circles. In the 15 years from 1994 to 2009, there were 596 articles searching for the keyword "network language" in the general database of online publishing of Chinese academic journals. Based on these articles, the research on network language mainly includes the following aspects: research on network vocabulary, research on the standardization of network language, research on the social causes and communication of network language, research on the ethical and cultural perspectives of network language, and research on the linguistic perspective of network language. Among them, the normative research on network vocabulary and network language accounts for the vast majority.
So how to deal with the attribution of network language? Some studies believe that network language is a form of social variation of Chinese. "Network language is another social variation produced on the socio pragmatic cultural soil paved by the popularity of the fourth media computer in recent years, and has become a unique linguistic and cultural landscape" (Wang Hongyan, 2005); Some studies believe that network language is a variety of social dialects, "network language is not a new language, it is only a variety of social dialects within the framework of the national common language, affected by contextual factors, and out of pragmatic needs, local use of variation means and 'deviation' phenomenon" (Xu Zhongning, 2004); Some studies believe that network language is a simplified hybrid language. "The network has become an important means for people to exchange information. In the process of communication, people often use a language variant of hybrid English, which is also called network Pichian." (Li Zhi, 2008) Some studies believe that network language is a new language form, called network language.
"The rapid development of the modern Internet has made the network an important way of information transmission, and the new network communication mode has led to the emergence of network language style. Network language style is a new type of language style, which has significant characteristics different from other types of language style." (Li Jun, 2005) Another study believes that network language is a functional variety of language, "The so-called network language is a variety of language functions formed by netizens through text communication in the special network environment" (Sun Luchen, 2007). Although various research results and terms are expressed differently, there are mainly three views on the attribution of network language at present: first, it is considered that network language is a functional variant of language; Second, it believes that network language is a social variety of language; Third, network language has formed a special style, namely network style.
The purpose of this chapter is to study the nature of network language. The starting point of studying language varieties is to regard language as heterogeneous and orderly, "heterogeneous means that the language we observe is different, and orderly means that the distribution of language components is rule-based" (Zhao Ronghui 12001). The author is trying to find an orderly distribution in the heterogeneous network language phenomenon.
In the research on the nature of network language, there are four terms used: style, language variety, register and dialect. In order to pave the way for later research, we need to clarify these concepts.
Style: The simplest definition of the concept of style is language genre. The concept seems very simple and clear. Compared with the English counterpart "style", the problem becomes more complicated. According to the definition of the American Traditional Dictionary, style, when used to refer to the concept of language genre, is defined as "unique style and genre: the sum of literary and artistic expression of a person, a group of people, a school or an era, and the characteristics of their works." According to this definition, style is intertwined with style, genre, style, style and other synonyms. In order to straighten out the ambiguous relationship between these words, this paper adopts the concept of style in Mr. Cheng Yumin's English Stylistics: "Style, or linguistic style, as used in this book, refers to the variety of the same language (standard language, dialect, social dialect, etc.) that is typically used by users of the same language variety in different occasions." (Mr. Cheng uses the term language variety in this concept. In fact, Mr. Cheng uses language variety to refer to language variety. In order to keep the consistency of terms and the current habits of the linguistic community, this paper prefers to replace the word language variety here with the word language variety.). Through this concept, we can draw the conclusion that style is a functional variety in the process of language use.
Language variety: according to Hudson's definition, it is "a group of language items with the same social distribution", "meaning a certain form of language expression commonly used by people with the same social characteristics in the same social environment. Language variety can refer to language, dialect or style It can also refer to a single phonetic, grammatical or lexical item "(Zhu Wanjin 111992). It can be seen that style is a subcategory of language varieties and one of language varieties.
Dialect, a dictionary of advanced Chinese, explains dialects as follows: "A language is different from the standard language, which is mainly used in spoken or oral regional or regional language varieties." In fact, this explanation is not comprehensive, and dialects are simply language branches, including regional dialects and social dialects. The dialect that can be distinguished according to the geographical location is the regional dialect. For example, there are Shanghai dialect, Hubei dialect, etc. in Chinese, which is the regional dialect. When the dialect is endowed with social value, it is the social dialect. Dialect, like style of writing, is a sub classification of language varieties and a kind of language varieties.
Register: Register is a concept put forward by systemic functional linguistics. According to Halliday's definition, "Register refers to the functional variety of language, and the so-called functional variety is the form of language change caused by the change of situational context." (Hu Zhuanglin, 2005) Situational context refers to three factors, namely, the scope of discourse, the tone of discourse, and the way of discourse. The relationship between register and dialect lies in their different emphasis. Register emphasizes the use of language, while dialect emphasizes the user of language.
In some of the existing research results, many studies put forward that network language is a new style form from the perspective of register, that is, network style. The author believes that the above research perspective cannot completely and correctly give a reasonable attribution to network language. More than 80 years ago, the anthropologist Malinowski put forward the concept of context. He put forward two concepts of context before and after. One is the context of situation, which refers to the specific environment directly related to language activities; The other is context of culture, which refers to the whole cultural background of language activities. So it is obviously not comprehensive to study online language from the perspective of situational context. In the process of studying online language, we must put online language under the whole cultural background, so we adopt another concept of systemic functional linguistics, "genre". Genre was initially applied to the field of literature, and then the Russian scholar Bakhtin extended the concept to the field of linguistics. Bakhtin believes that there are two types of genres, simple and complex. The simple type refers to the situational context, while the complex type refers to the cultural context. Therefore, to study the attribution of network language from the perspectives of situational context and cultural context is called genre study of network language.
Zhu Wenjin said that "the basic point of sociolinguistics is to regard language as a heterogeneous and orderly object. Heterogeneity means that the language we can observe is different, and order means that the distribution of language components is regular". The purpose of this chapter is to try to find the order of language from heterogeneous language phenomena and try to answer the following questions: First, since the online languages we are going to discuss include the languages of online forums, online chat, online literature, e-mail and mobile phone SMS, can we say that these kinds of online languages have the same language characteristics, Is it called the same language variety? 2、 If these network languages have the same language features, can we conclude that this is a new form of language variation, which can be called network style? 3、 How should the genre of network language belong to? Is it formal or informal, spoken or written? This article was published in Shangpin China, a UEO marketing website construction company //ihucc.com/
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