The Research On Characteristics And Causes Of Network Chinglish Based On Memetics

Memetics proposed by Richard Dawkins is a novel theory of using biological evolutionism to explain cultural evolutionism.The core term of memetics is the meme.The essence of memes is to carry out the replication and propagation.Any information can be memes,provided that they are imitated and replicated.Memes serve as the fundamental cultural replication exerting an increasingly vital function on the advancement of the language.Memetics is a kind of novel theory in the research field of linguistics that comprehends the law of the development of the language and culture.Many language variants come into being on account of the long-term use of the language in philosophy,social sciences,culture and other fields.Therefore,the application of the study of the linguistic memes is of great value.With the pullulating of the Internet,the appliance of English is being more and more thorough and extensive.Network Chinglish,one of the products of the Internet improvement and cultural integration diffusely cultivated and transmitted by cyber citizens on the network,is a sort of linguistic expression by the core principle of Chinese thought with the addition of some peculiar features of English in diction,form and sentence structure.The research of memetics of probing the development and change of Language not only possesses theoretical meaning but also has application value to a certain degree,providing a fresh research perspective for the research of Network Chinglish.This thesis analyzes the common Network Chinglish in detail,lucubrating the characteristics of the formation of Network Chinglish,principally on words,phrases and sentences from the perspective of memetics.Then,the author discovers that Network Chinglish is provided with characteristics of fashionability,originality and popularity.Furthermore,this paper further reveals intrinsic and extrinsic causes for the transmission of Network Chinglish,offering some salutary enlightenment to the further study of Network Chinglish.This thesis contains five parts to explicate Network Chinglish memes.The first part is the preface,introducing the research background,the significance and objective of the topic,theoretical framework.The second part is the literature review of memetics and Chinglish at home and abroad.The third part is the theoretical support,introducing the definition of memes,memes and genes,strong memes and weak memes,the characteristics of memes and the screening criteria of memes.The fourth part is the principal section.In this section the author analyzes the characteristics of the Network Chinglish memes.The author finds that Network Chinglish memes conform to the criteria of strong memes.And being strong memes explains the primary reason why Network Chinglish memes obtain dissemination.Besides,the imitation and duplication of the Network Chinglish memes require going through four stages: assimilation,retention,expression and transmission.Moreover,strong Network Chinglish memes have different features in distinct stages during the process of transmission and replication,embodying two ways of transmission: genotype memes and phenotype memes.Consequently,the author indicates the development tendency of the Network Chinglish memes.The last part is the end of the paper,not only summarizing the new findings but also pointing out the limitations and expectations of this thesis.In conclusion,the analysis of the characteristics,the transmission cycle,the transmission type and the screening criteria of memes can make for the study of the characteristics,causes and dissemination of the Network Chinglish memes.