Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Chapter One Dagongmei in the Context of Rural-urban Migration Processes in Contemporary China
- Chapter Two The Linguistic Features of Chinese Internet Language
- Chapter Three Chinese Contemporary Art: Between Market and Freedom
- Chapter Four The Modernization of the People's Liberation Army since 1978
- Chapter Five The Reduced Role of the People's Liberation Army in the Political Succession to Deng Xiaoping and to Jiang Zemin: Chinese Style Civilian-Military Relations in the Making
- Chapter Six Chinese Involvement in Southeast Asia on the Example of Myanmar
- Chapter Seven China's Energy Policy towards Central Asia and Russia
- Chapter Eight Sino-Japanese Dispute over the Seabed Oil and Gas Resources in the East China Sea
- Chapter Nine China's Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea
- Chapter Ten The Way to Hong Kong Handover and its Implications
Chapter Two - The Linguistic Features of Chinese Internet Language
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Chapter One Dagongmei in the Context of Rural-urban Migration Processes in Contemporary China
- Chapter Two The Linguistic Features of Chinese Internet Language
- Chapter Three Chinese Contemporary Art: Between Market and Freedom
- Chapter Four The Modernization of the People's Liberation Army since 1978
- Chapter Five The Reduced Role of the People's Liberation Army in the Political Succession to Deng Xiaoping and to Jiang Zemin: Chinese Style Civilian-Military Relations in the Making
- Chapter Six Chinese Involvement in Southeast Asia on the Example of Myanmar
- Chapter Seven China's Energy Policy towards Central Asia and Russia
- Chapter Eight Sino-Japanese Dispute over the Seabed Oil and Gas Resources in the East China Sea
- Chapter Nine China's Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea
- Chapter Ten The Way to Hong Kong Handover and its Implications
Summary
At 338 million, the number of Internet users in China ranks second only to the United States. Moreover, Chinese speakers constitute 29.7 percent of the total of 1.8 billion Internet users worldwide, ranking second to English. However, little is known about how Chinese speakers use language online, in contrast to a large amount of research done on languages that utilize Roman- based script. This article attempts to describe the linguistic and paralinguistic features of informal computer-mediated communication in Chinese. The research is based on a review of existing research and analysis of data massages posted on websites. Throughout the course of the study I aimed to answer the research questions stated below:
▪ What are the linguistic features of the Chinese Internet language (CIL)?
▪ Why is the language on the web adopting such a linguistic form?
▪ Why do Internet users create and use unique language form called the Chinese Internet language?
In order to receive answers to these questions I have based my analysis upon four areas: definition and description of linguistic features of the Chinese Internet language, characteristics of online asynchronous communication, and its functions.
Definition of the Chinese Internet language and factors contributing to the emergence of the Internet language
The rapid development of the Internet in China has had a huge impact on the Chinese language. Computer-mediated communication gave rise to a new variety of Chinese that is being called the Chinese Internet language.
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- China at the Beginning of the 21st Century , pp. 25 - 34Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2014