A Study Of Chinese Netspeak Neologisms Based On Cognitive Model Theory(2009-2013)

With the rapid expansion of the Internet, netspeak neologisms pour into our life. In search of a fashionable way to communicate with others in Internet, netizens create a lot of nespeak neologisms in chat room, online forums, BBS and other scenes of Internet applications.Until now, netspeak neologisms have aroused linguistics’ much attention. Most scholars study netspeak mainly concentrate on the netspeak’s nature, forms, characteristics, birth, rules,norms and others from perspectives of semantics, pragmatics, rhetoric, function, but it’s rare to study the motivations of the formation of the netspeak neologisms from the perspective of CM(cognitive models). Based on the four types of CM theory in principal, propositional structure, image schematic structure, metaphoric mapping, and metonymic mapping, this research makes an in-depth study about Chinese netspeak neologisms.CM is a relatively stereotyped mental structure that people formed in the process of cognizing the objects and understanding the world, a model of organization and representation of knowledge, the constitution of the concept and its relatively fixed connection. Using CM,the motivations and reasons for the formation of the Chinese netspeak neologisms will be interpreted much easier, and so are the deep meanings of Chinese netspeak neologisms. In addition, people can use Chinese netspeak neologisms better in life.This thesis collects and chooses some widespread Chinese netspeak neologisms from the book Chinese Language Situation Report, the dictionaries Network Language Dictionaries,Online Forums, Blog, BBS, Web Pages and other channels from 2009 to 2013 as linguistic data, and utilizes qualitative methods, like literature analysis, induction and deduction and case study. This research is emphasized on two questions as follows: What are the motivations of the formation of Chinese netspeak neologisms? What are the reasons for the formation of Chinese netspeak neologisms? Three key steps in the thesis, specifically, the first step is to find out the coinages, new words imitating the old ones, and old words with new meanings these three categories of Chinese netspeak neologisms; the second step is to observe the CMsof Chinese netspeak neologisms in order to expose the motivations of the formation of Chinese netspeak neologisms mainly from four types of cognitive principle: propositional structure, image schematic structure, metaphoric structure and metonymic structure, and then to make an evaluation about the motivations of the formation of Chinese netspeak neologism and the use situation right now; the third step is to probe into the reasons for the formation of Chinese netspeak neologism from psychological side and cultural side.Though the analysis of CMs of Chinese nestspeak neologisms, it is concluded: firstly, a part of neologisms are created based on single type of motivation, especially metonymic and metaphoric motivation, but most are based on multiple types of motivations, especially the combination of metonymic and metaphoric motivations; secondly, the reasons for the formation of Chinese netspeak neologisms comes mainly from psychological side, such as creation, economic, recreation and collection, and cultural side, such as nation,post-modernism and Internet. It is hoped that people can have a better understanding of Chinese netspeak neologisms from the level of CM and have a proper attitude of using Chinese netspeak neologisms...