Network Language Genre Studies

This thesis takes the stylistics study of current language used by the Chinese netizens on the computer as the research object.As a developing phenomenon, the netspeak has attracted the attention of a lot of scholars. The research about it has been in the ascendant. There has existed broad and narrow explanation to the netspeak. In the narrow sense, The netspeak refers to the chatting speech used by the netizens, in the broad sense, it includes the natural language used on the computer, the artificial computer language (eg. Basic Language, C~+ language) and non-verbal signs such as figure picture. The thesis adopts the latter statement for the research convenience and defines the netspeak as a kind of language used on the internet. In detail, it refers to the part of language that the netizens create, issue and receive through the new medium and carrier and which is different from the common language in pronunciation, semantic meaning, uses and layout. It mainly includes the instant chatting speech such as E-mail, BBS article, the mobile phone short message, blog, and QQ etc.This thesis takes these speech as an object of study and tries to carry out quantitative and qualitative research about the style of netspeak. The thesis have carried out all-round, systematic and thorough depicting on netspeak from the angle of cognition, context, pragmatics, function and synchronicity under the direction of stylistics theory such as the style description research and the stylistics analysis of speech. The study uses the context and environment theory, sociolinguistics variation theory, mental space theory, pragmatic relevance theory, semantic theory, the text analysis theory, cognitive linguistic theory and relative research methods for reference.The article is composed of seven chapters and sections:The first chapter has given a boundary to the netspeak, combed the current research situation of netspeak, and introduced the theroy background, research methods and language material sources.The second and third chapter are the style description of netspeak. First, it researches on the word-sentence departures phenomenon of netspeak, then describes and analyzes the every main genre of netspeak one by one.The fourth chapter first determines the nature of netspeak to be a network style established by usage relying on computer and network. It defines the netspeak as a new kind of mixed language style adapting to the network, the special communication field through which the netizens communicate, share the idea and knowledge, have fun and self-revelation. The new language style has both traditional colloquial and written style charateristics. And then it summarizes the distinguishing style of netspeak, then proceed to make researches on one of its characteristic—humor.The fifth chapter is the comparative study between network style and traditional style. On the basis of the front chapters, this chapter takes network style as the main body, consults traditional style, makes comparative study on the network style and traditional style, discusses what and how the network style inherites from traditional language style and develops.The sixth chapter makes an explanation studies to the netspeak style. The chapter analyzes the inevitability for netspeak style to exist and come into being from the angle of game function of netspeak, the synchronic context and style genetics.The seventh chapter is the conclusion which summarizes the dissertation and indicates the deficiencies and some further topics to be discussed.