A Multi-dimensional Study Of The Misuse Of Chinese Idioms

Taking the misused idioms as the research object,this thesis starts from the misuse of idioms,analyzes the causes of idiom misuse,puts forward the attitude of misuse of idioms and strategies to avoid misuse,and attempts to analyze the reason why we can hold a watching attitude towards the misused idioms.The first part is Introduction,which mainly introduces the origin of the topic,the research status of the subject,the research methods used in the subject,and the source of the corpus.The second part is mainly about the description of idiom misuse types.This theis examines three aspects of the idioms' misuse of form,sound and meaning.The first section is the miswriting of idiom glyphs,which are divided into two types: sub-word miswriting and homophone miswriting.The second section is the misunderstanding of idioms,which are divided into three categories: misunderstanding of polyphonic words,misreading of phonological words,and misunderstanding of uncommon words.The third section is a misunderstanding of the meaning of idioms,which is divided into three categories: rational meaning misunderstanding,color meaning misunderstanding,and contextual meaning misunderstanding.The third part focuses on the reasons for the misuse of idioms.From the perspective of users,the misuse of idioms studied in this paper is divided into two aspects: subjective misuse and objective misuse.Subjective misuse begins with the pursuit of advertising effect and the psychological tendency of “seeking for new ideas”,“seeking for simplicity” and “learning from the public”;objective misuse has reflected in five aspects: the neglect of shape and harmony,the neglect of semantics,the neglect of applicable conditions,the neglect of context and mismaking of idioms.To refine deeply,the typical idioms of each class are examined in detail,starting from the etymology of idioms,and analyzing the misuse of them in specific use through examples.The fourth part mainly discusses the attitude towards misuse of idioms and the strategies to avoid misuse.The attitude of misuse of idioms is to put it an end or holds a wait-and-see attitude.The reason for waiting and seeing is that some idioms have high frequency of misuse and misuse of evolutionary mechanisms.There are four main aspects: first,semantic generalization;second,reanalysis;third,semantic update;fourth,semantic fading and reinforcement.Finally from the national,social,personal level,this thesis will propose strategies to avoid misuse.The fifth part is the conclusion,which points out the inadequacies of the research and the need for improvement.