| With the rocketing development of society and network technology, the Internet has become an indispensable part of people's everyday life. In the same course, a completely new social language variety---network language-has come into being. This new language, with its unique characteristics, is popular in Internet users and even in more and more other people widely. There are many controversial discussions about this newborn language among the whole society. More and more researchers begin to probe into this field.The writer of this thesis is a Korean student who studies Chinese in China. He is very sensitive to the commonness and difference between Chinese and Korean.This thesis describes the profound influence imposed by society, the cause of its formation, boundary of definitions, and the specialty of online chatting language. Besides, it makes a comparison between new words created by Chinese and Korean Internet users, and the morphology and standardization of the online chatting language, on the purpose of finding the commonness and difference of the two languages and draw experience for developing standardization of language from it.The research on network language is a hot issue in both Chinese and Korean linguistic circles. It is generally believed that the formation of an online chatting language system not only benefits from the development of network technology, but also from many other reasons; for example, the requirement of input efficiency, the pursuance of humanity and visualization in network communication, and the exhibition of individuality and a sense of pioneering.Different from professional network language, the network language concerned in this thesis only refers to on-line chatting language, excluding professional jargons. This special language is not only a synchronized interactivity but also an asynchronous written language, in other words, a kind of "interactive discourse". Internet users make new words or derive new meanings from the existing words with which they are very familiar with. They also use many non-native language symbols to form new words. To some degree, they vary the conventional language form and methods of rhetoric. As a completely new social language variety,the most prominent difference between the chatting language system and the standard language system lies in the lexical level.This thesis points out that there are many homonyms (partial tone words or different words with the same pronunciation), alphabet abbreviations, symbols, words with widened meanings, and newly invented words that occur in both Chinese and Korean chatting languages. On the other hand, there are many differences between these two new languages, which are caused by the different social and cultural background and especially by the different spoken and written language systems.There are prominent differences between the Chinese and Korean chatting language, mainly in the following four aspects: Firstly, there are many homonyms in Chinese, but very few in Korean. Secondly, there are many more words with widened meanings in the Chinese chatting language than in the Korean. Thirdly, there are many more abbreviated words in Korean. Fourthly, there are many symbols with complex components in Korean, while in Chinese there are only a small number of symbols which are all very simple. Chatting language is a new system, but it is still based on the old lexical system. New words are produced by combining the original lexemes through morphological rules.Both Chinese and Korean people are concerned with the problem of standardization and have made great efforts in research both theoretically and practically. The Korean researchers have made greater achievements in the practical aspect, which is an inspiration and reference for Chinese people. For example, they hold special instructional courses for primary school students; forum hosts on BBS are expected to ban people who say dirty words deliberately; and governmental and various nongovernmental organizations also sponsor movements to purify language.
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