Author(s)

Long Ziwei ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Corresponding Author

Long Ziwei

ABSTRACT

Internet catchwords have emerged with the development of the information society, which has profoundly affected people's social life, and Internet catchwords are featured as a special variant of social dialects. In Internet catchwords, language variation is very common, mainly manifested as phonetic variation, word variation, grammatical variation, semantic variation, and so on. This article aims to analyze recent Internet catchwords and then conclude the vocabulary variation in Internet catchwords. The article finds that the vocabulary variation mainly includes two aspects: morphological variation and semantic variation. In terms of morphological variation, there are three types of variation: homophonic variation, abbreviation variation, and emoticon variation. As for the semantic variation, there are two types of variation in word meaning, they are manifested as the expansion of word meaning and the reduction of word meaning. Finally, the paper explores the reasons for the variation of Internet catchwords, in order to encourage netizens to establish a correct language perspective.

KEYWORDS

Internet catchwords; vocabulary variation; reason

CITE THIS PAPER

Long Ziwei, A Study on the Reasons for Vocabulary Variation of Internet Catchwords. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 106-110. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070117.

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