A Study On The Linguistics Of Contemporary TV Drama

TV series as an important form of art, has become an essential way of entertainment which is popular in daily life.At such a time,the TV series number soared, the way of media diversitied, a personality, Novel and chic title of TV series can better able to attract the audience and improve the ratings.At the same time, the title of TV series as a special language phenomenon,is a member of the scope of linguistics research.This paper takes China’s contemporary(1958-2013) mainland TV series title as the research object, which can be divided into three periods to study — 80 s before,80-00 s, since 00 s. Mainly using qualitative and quantitative, synchronic and diachronic, comparative and analysis of the combination way for research. Using the form of graph to present directly the three period of development and change of the TV series title. Then, to contrast and analyse the title on the basis of the description and explanation, summed up the characteristics of the title in the three periods, in order to show the development picture of China’s contemporary mainland TV series title and put forward some suggestions which have practical guiding significance to naming the title.Through the study we found: In the aspect of pronunciation, the TV series title is not as short as possible, four syllables title has a distinct advantage, more syllables tendency appeared; making good use of reduplicated form in order to increase the musicical quality of title; scansion inherited the traditional poetry rules, make the title in the rhythmic catchy. In the aspect of vocabulary, vocabulary formation of the title has nine types such as industry word, history word and so on, in addition to the basic vocabulary. The TV series title has different high-frequency words in different periods.A special kind of vocabulary-tag type word comes to the title of the new century. In the aspect of semantic, summed up nine types of semantic profiling of the TV series title in the three periods. Semantic unconventional collocations emerged in the second and third period. In the aspect of grammar, the title in the form of phrases stay ahead,one of them, modification construction occupies the largest proportion. The title in the form of sentence has a rapid developmennt in the third period. Title has obvious phenomena of similar structure, duplicated seriously. In the aspect of rhetoric, the use of figures of speech is growing constantly with the development of the period.Different figures of speech have different rhetorical functions in the title.