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An Analysis Of The Phenomenon In The Perspective Of Chinese Loanwords

Posted on:2015-04-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X SongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2175330464451561Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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With the rapid development of the times, and more increasing of the international exchanges, loanwords bring new ideas, new inventions, new things constantly into our lives for the vitality, and greatly enrich the Chinese vocabulary, enrich people’s expression. Loanwords are an integral part of Chinese vocabulary system, which enriched and developed the Chinese language, they fill in the blanks of expression, expand the basic words, roots of Chinese language, and also enrich the Chinese common vocabulary to promote the Chinese expression system update. As one of the oldest languages, Chinese can express meanings smoothly, and has the strongest stability. It not only has a long history in terms of absorbing loanwords, but also has more distinctive features. The integration of loanwords can be seen as mutually replication and dissemination of different languages and cultures, as a result of the mutual influence can happen to coincide with the meme phenomenon, which reflects the law of evolution on culture.Language is the carrier of culture, language meme is a form be of language expression, and also be the basic mode of human language and ideas’spreading. Language meme reveals the law of language spread. This paper analyzed the localization process of loanwords, and explored its meme phenomenon by the way in the introduction, the development process of change and the regulation of using language, in order to make some explanations for the special phenomenon in the process of loanwords’ using in these areas, and to provide comprehensive research perspective for language memetics.
Keywords/Search Tags:loanword, meme phenomenon, culture, translation
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