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The Study Of Modern Chinese Variation In New Era

Posted on:2014-01-04Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q CaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:1225330395493665Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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With the development of human society, language develops and changes. To explore thedevelopment of language evolution, we must study the phenomenon of language variation;the language variation is the essential characteristic of language. In the new era, with thedevelopment and change of Chinese society, modern Chinese have undergone all sorts oflanguage variation phenomenon in the vocabulary, semantics, grammar, and the study of newperiod Chinese language variation is an important part of the evolution of the study of theChinese. The language variation refers to the emergence of new elements in the languagesystem, as well as the language change status of deviation from or violation of the rules of theoriginal language system due to influence of various internal and external factors of thelanguage.In the new era, the most prominent variation of modern Chinese vocabulary is the increasein new elements of Chinese vocabulary system that a large number of new words generated.Language variation is caused by the change of social development; first it is mainlymanifested in lexical change, while the change of vocabulary is mainly reflected in theincrease and loss of vocabulary, namely two aspects of the retreat of the old words andincrease of new words. Observed from the origin of Chinese new words, in the new periodnew words could be divided into three aspects, the new coinage, foreign words, and dialectwords. In new period the characteristics of Chinese new words mainly as follows: the syllabletrend in multiple tone; a large number of new abbreviated words have increased; cognatewords; loanwords are increased, and more and more letter words. The new words have alsocaused the change and development of Chinese morphemes. From the source of new periodChinese morphemes, there is his source, aiso self-source. In the Chinese new morphemes,foreign morphemes account for absolute advantage.In the new era, Chinese semantic variation mainly refers to the variation of themorphemes meaning and lexical meaning in the modern Chinese common language system.In the new period, modern Chinese has produced a great amount of new words, but the newgeneration of morpheme is not that much. The new morpheme is mainly manifested in someborrowed-words transliterated component morphemication, few new morpheme in the Chinese are self-generated. In the new era the morpheme has generated new meanings, inaddition to the foreign words morphemication,another is the main performance of morphememeaning variation of new compound words. In new period, variation of Chinese lexicalmeaning mainly refers to the modern Chinese semantic system increasing new sememe andoffset of the original meaning. The characteristics of Chinese semantic variation in the newperiod are mainly as follows: the meaning domain wide distribution, new univocal word inthe majority, the meaning of the strong combination.The new period modern Chinese grammar in the polymerization and combinations existin the phenomenon of language variation. The variation of polymerization is expressed mainlyas part of speech wavering and a large number of class affixes are increasing, and theemerging Chinese overlapping ABB and AABB type. Combined variation refers to the newgrammatical phenomenon appeared in new period or there is the linguistic phenomenon ofdeviation from traditional grammatical combination rule. In the new period, modern Chinesegrammar has more variation in combination, the performance of the more prominent is mainlyin the following several aspects:“Adverb+noun " combination; verb-object compoundwords with objects; emerging "被X " structure;"有+VP " structure. Generation and the riseof these grammatical phenomena adapt to a variety of social life, special social pragmaticvalue, but also the development of the language itself.The new period motivation of modern Chinese language variation has a number of factors,both external causes and internal causes. External factors include the social development,language contact, language communicative and cognitive function and pragmatic psychologyfactors etc.. Internal causes include the interaction of language structure elements and the roleof language analogy mechanism etc.. Language variation is the result of the combined effectsof internal and external causes. The new period Chinese language variation causes are morecomplex, some of the phenomenon of language variation may be affected by various factors.In the new period, the emergence of many new family words and the new structure, often bynew words, new structures, and then drive to produce a family word, a kind of structure, sothat the new words and the new structure present typical and mass derivative trend. They haveboth the external causes of social development and various pragmatic mentalities, alsointernal causes of language analogy rule.The sociolinguistics think language is a dynamic and open system. Language is notself-sufficient, language itself in constantly adjustable. In the new period,a large number ofChinese language variation phenomenon are existed, such as lexical innovation, borrowedfrom foreign language and all kinds of new structure generation, language is in a state of disorder temporarily. Byinternal and external regulation, language constantly progress fromdisorder to order, there is never perfect perfection. The old disorder, imperfect overcomes, andthere will be new disorder and imperfection, the language constantly forward in circles. Onthe one hand the new period Chinese language variation has caused shock from differentlevels of traditional Chinese; on the other hand, language variation promote the developmentof modern Chinese, enrich the Chinese vocabulary system, increase the new ways of Chineseexpression.Language variation phenomenon is universal. The new period Chinese languagevariation has its own characteristics, namely the performance of the specific social andcultural content. From its own development and change of language and the social function oflanguage, the presence of language variation is both inevitable and reasonable.Research onChinese language variation in the new period has important theoretical and practical value.
Keywords/Search Tags:language variation, new words, new morphemes, semantic grammar, motivation
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