Hippie Web Language And Its Autonomy

Language refracts the current situation of its speakers, so web language has an important significance in understanding the virtual world. Based on the research done by predecessors, this essay pulls in a well-known word "Hippie", and peels off its political and exotic color. The element "hippie" lies in young people's web life. The social significance behind it is that "hippie" is a voice from young people to call for multiple discourse and identity affirmance, is that "hippie" is a kind of sub-language of young people, a kind of language autonomy experiment of their own.This essay analyses some hippie web language, sums up its characterization, and finds that although hippie web language emerges in the caught of traditional media, it has a certain degree of independence. The intense ridicule has become young people's glue, and caused their resonance. In addition, hippie web language has infiltrated into our traditional media and stirred up an impact on society. Meanwhile, hippie web language has some inevitable weakness, as the consumer culture of our web and limitations of virtual identity have caused a deviation from the original path.In the meantime of bringing us surprise and curiosity, hippie web language is also inspiring, because it shows us many possibilities of future. What's more, it has made a brand-new voice, to provide us a new perspective, to detach us from mainstream, to be able to view things we have been used to see in a new way.