The Research On The Variation Of Appellation "Ge"(å“¥) In The Internet Age

With the development of society and the expansion of the scope of people socially, relativesappellation "Ge"（哥） gone through the process of generalization. Under the networkcontext,appellation"Ge"（哥） generates several new variation, such as face-to-faceappellation"GeGe"（哥哥）, back appellation "Chun/Zeng Ge"（春/曾哥）, the self-proclaimedappellation "Ge"（哥）, the popular constructions "X-Ge"（X哥）. Under the guidance ofsociolinguistic variation theory, this article combs the history of symmetrical predicate of "Ge"（哥）, and focus on the variabilities of the appellation "Ge"（哥）in the network era and theinternal and external reasons which caused the variation. This article is divided into four chapters,which on the basis of collected1000"X-Ge" corpus.The first chapter talks about the situation of evolution of the appellation "Ge"（哥）."Ge"(哥) is the original word of "song"（歌）in ancient Chinese, and borrowed from "agān"in theXianbei language and gradually fixed at a Chinese Kinship Terms, instead of "xiong"(兄) fromthe Tang Dynasty in spoken language. From the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty,"Ge"(哥)experienced some changes, such as calling to brother, calling to father, respectfulappellation and the nickname of the man, appellation for wife to her husband. In the ex-Internetage, appellation "Ge"(哥) took place in a generalization and modification, resulting in manyvariant forms, such as "big (大)/old（老）/small（小）/surname（姓或名）+Ge（哥）", the"occupation/industry+Ge（哥）" and "cool/handsome/first+Ge（哥）", in this period ofchange, the semantic became virtual and grammatical meaning got enhanced.The second chapter presents many variant forms of the appellation "Ge"（哥）in the Internetage, including two parts of the initial variation and deep variation. In the initial variation part,wegive an analysis on some distinctive initial variant forms of "Ge"(哥) in the Internet age, such asintimate face-to-face appellation "GeGe"(哥哥), banter back appellation "Chun/Zeng Ge"（春/曾哥）and the self-proclaimed appellation "Ge"（哥）.And in the deep variation part,we give adiscussion on the emerging language form of "X-Ge"（X哥）in many aspects:in the form of"X-Ge"（X哥）, the basic semantic features of appellation "Ge"（哥）gradually become virtualand even fall off, the additional color righteousness get increased, alleged object and language domain get extended, grammatical meaning get enhanced; the limited ingredients "X"of "X-Ge"（X哥）is mainly disyllabic and supplemented by more than three syllables of polysyllabic in thesyllable constitution, and in the part of speech distribution,is mainly nominal element,followedby verb components,adjective ingredients at least; the characters named "X-Ge"（X哥）is indiversity, these categories mainly reflecte in the appearance and image, movement and behavior,personality and characteristics, moral qualities, status and professional and so on.The third chapter is an analysis of the variation reasons of the appellation "Ge"（哥） in theInternet age. The language innternal mechanism which includes the analogy mechanism, theeconomic mechanism and the mutation mechanism affect the variation of "Ge"（哥）in theInternet age. And some external factors of language: the people’s livelihood, the mass media andother social reality such as post-modernism culture and grassroots culture, as well as the publicmultiple psychological emotions, such as unconventional, convergence herd,onlookersadventures and vent emotions, all these with the language mechanisms together, contribute to thevariability of appellation "Ge"（哥） in the Internet age.The fourth chapter discuss about some problems on the variation of appellation "Ge"（哥）in the Internet age, and to predict its development prospects. We have found through observationand comparison, the variation of appellation "Ge"(哥) is not a single case, but a cluster deviation.We give a preliminary discussion on other appellation variabilities which has similar featureswith appellation "Ge" in the Internet age, these appellation are "Jie"(姐)""Di"(弟)"Mei (妹)and"Emperor"(帝), this part of discussion expand from two aspects including the semanticevolution and structure types.