Many neologisms were coined as various changes appear with high-rate growth of Chinese economy after Chinese economic reform. Many Chinese scholars saw the necessity of systematic arrangement and analysis about various neologisms, and have progressed ...
Many neologisms were coined as various changes appear with high-rate growth of Chinese economy after Chinese economic reform. Many Chinese scholars saw the necessity of systematic arrangement and analysis about various neologisms, and have progressed a research about neologisms. Chinese government had also recognized its importance and have issued lists and research position of neologisms, through 『Chinese language life status 』of Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, MOE and National Language Committee.
Whereas the importance of neologisms increases, research about Chinese neologisms in Korea is very insufficiency. There is not even a Ph.D. thesis written by Korean, excluding 2 s written by Chinese student, and no deep research is been progressing sociolinguistically in both China and Korea. Practical data is important in sociolinguistically research, but statistic study, providing actual statistics data about neologisms, is very insufficiency. Therefore this research analyze Chinese neologisms specifically from sociolinguistical perspectives, and examine the present situation and changes of Chinese society through neologism, which is a byproduct of social phenomenon, gain a foothold by providing a data for future research. This helps an accurate understanding and prediction of Chinese society for Chinese professionals in various fields, and helps students, who study China, for easy comprehension of Chinese society through neologisms.
Chinese influence in international society is growing based on rapid economic growth and huge domestic market. As Korea is adjacent to China geographically and highly dependent on exports to China, Chinese society needs to be monitored all the time. Therefore this research selects neologisms, which represent Chinese society as a research object, and study various changes occurring in Chinese society.
A theoretical framework for the research is The Theory of Covariance, saying that language and society affect each other and change. Quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis were progressed for 2433 neologisms, from 2017 to 2017, which were issued from MOE and Chinese National Language Committee. Neologisms, produced from 2017 to 2017, had classified to various categories such as politic, economy, society, culture, lifestyle, education, environment, sports, science technology, Internet, etc., and the key words had extracted from all the neologisms. Neologism chart was written and analysis was progressed by categories and key words based on this.
The main features of Chinese society can be arranged to 4 subjects based on the research of society change through semantic analysis of neologisms.
First one is Chinese government's increasing interest at rural communities. Chinese government had emphasized issues concerning agriculture, countryside and farmers through government , but relatively active movement have been appeared since 2017. Many neologisms related to rural empowerment policy had appeared sharply. Now rural economic development and rural public welfare have receiving attention, not only economical support. Chinese government will try to solve rural problems and announce many policies for rural market development with high possibility. Second is that potential dissatisfaction of Chinese people is expanding to various fields. An atmosphere of social satire, for unstable, unfair which only emphasizes power and wealth had formed through the neologisms such as 被~, ~二代 in 2017. This dissatisfaction expands to Chinese government and continues to strong criticism, targeting corrupt public officials. This dissatisfaction now directly criticizes the corrupt public officials personally, and Chinese government also insists actively on exposing corruption. This trends continue to sharp blade of Xi Jinping, targeting each corrupt officials. This movement of China needs to be focused whether it continues to political administrative reform or not. Third is that Chinese government is trying to increase its international image through empowerment of soft power. China holds various cultural events such as the Beijing Olympics and Shanghai Expo and trys to construct an international image for the 2nd largest economic power. China intensified a regulation in exportation and importation to solve food safety issues such as melamine scandal in 2017. China will keep empower its soft power and try to be emerged as a cultural country, and this will increase exportation and tourist industry, as well as huge pride and achievement to Chinese citizens. Fourth is that Chinese youths are showing various characteristics. Their characteristics can be summarized to 'My generation’, ‘work generation’, ‘Kangaroo’, ‘Gao Fushuai(tall rich handsome man)’, ‘Gao Fumei(tall, rich and beautiful women)'. The features and changes of Chinese society can be examined carefully through these analyses and summaries.
China will keep produce many neologisms along with continuous changes and developments. Therefore researches about neologisms required to be continued to predict and understand the features and changes of future China.
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