Being Digital And Evolution Of The Literary Language

The emergence and development of digital technology has a tremendous impact on the model of the traditional social structure, the formation of social lifestyle as well as individual experience, therefore human being has been gradually led into a so-called "digital existence" era in which changes in living conditions mean that human being has taken another important step further in the journey of self-understanding and understanding the world as well. zFor the "human spiritual home"-literary arts, digital existence is both a challenge and an opportunity, indicating a new journey for literature.Discussing the evolution of literary language from the perspective of digital existence is a basic work of literary studies in the digital age. It is beneficial to the further exploration of the contents of a deeper level such as the literary images, literary connotations and the literary value to clarify the basic relationship between digital existence and the literary language. Aiming at this goal, this thesis sets up its theoretical framework on the basis of the description and the illustration of the phenomena by referring to the information theory on communication, the observative perspective of sociology and analytic method of linguistics, and thus brings out some ingenious theoretical points of view. Of course, the whole research process is based on the understanding and interpretation of digital existence.The theme "digital existence and the evolution of literary language" involves two aspects, namely, digital existence and the literary language. In order to state clearly the relationship between them, this thesis starts from the expansion of human's needs in the digital age to explore the critical causes of the evolution of literary language, with the ultimate goal to illustrate the impact of the evolution of literary language on literary practice. The study method, with the "literary language" as the core, aims at constructing a fundamental platform for discriminating the features of other aspects of literature in the digital age. The thesis has three main objectives, constituting the theoretical framework of the whole text:First, finding the source of the evolution of literary language. The ever-changing state of human existence brings forth more and more new demands of expression, which prompts the development of literature and other arts to change the strategies of expression, which is the source of the evolution of literary language. The unprecedented influence of digital technology on the state of human existence means the acceleration of the evolution of literary language. So it is of vital significance to find the source of the evolution of literary language to illustrate literary characteristics in the digital age.Second, clarifying the main tendency of the evolution of literary language. As a very complicated process, the causing factors of the evolution of literary language in the digital age vary. This thesis selects the four aspects which has basically covered all the aspects of digital existence and play an important role in the evolution of literary language including the digital media,virtual life, digital art and digital life in order to analyze specifically their impact on the literary language. This section is the main content of the thesis aiming at depicting a relatively clear picture of the basic evolving path of literary language in the digital age.Finally, observing the effects of the evolution of literary language. This section focuses on the field of literary practice. First, it explores the impact of the expansion of network language on literature, mainly about the expansion of the power of network language, the basic conditions of network language entering literary texts and the negative effects of network language on literature and so on to analyze of the mode of the occurrence of network literature. Second, it observes the language strategies of the traditional writers in the digital age, with the main target analyzing the relationship between the digital existence and strategies of metaphor of the traditional writers, analyzing the formation of language style of the traditional writers in the digital context, and the basic trends of literary language of traditional writers in the digital age. The evolution of the literary language, not only gives birth to the vigorous network writing, but also has a great influence on traditional writing.Based on the detailed illustration, the thesis proposes its basic points:in the digital age,the change of human existence has promoted the all-round development of expressing demands, which brings forth the evolution of literary language and the colorful features of modern literature in the digital age. This view has been proved effectively by the literary practice in the digital age and shows the enormous impact of human existence on the development of literary language.With this basic standing, we will be able to understand and illustrate the main tendency of the development of literature in the digital age more clearly.