“哒”词族的形成及语义演变探析

Abstract

Words are the fastest-changing phenomenon in language life, especially during the leap-forward development of society. A number of new clusters have emerged in contemporary Chinese, requiring us to break new grounds for new explorations. Based on corpus linguistics, lexicology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and other theoretical knowledge, this paper has carried out a dynamic and in-depth examination of the popular Chinese neologism clusters marked by “da” to reveal the internal and external mechanisms that generate and prevail. This paper is to study the word family of "Da" which appears in batch and is widely used in the form of "x + Da". Only by starting from the origin and development of new words, and being familiar with the language facts and language environment, can we better analyze the semantic changes and the reasons of their popularity. Therefore, this paper intends to explore the semantic evolution of the morpheme "Da" and the main characteristics of the word family "Da" from the perspective of its formation.The new cluster mark “da” evolved from the onomatopoeia to the special shape of the auxiliary word “de”. Under the guidance of lexicology theory, this paper uses the method of meaning analysis to sort out the process of the semantic of “Da” after being behaviorized by onomatopoeia [+ sound] and specifically refers to [+ kissing sound], and then borrows it as the variant form of auxiliary word “de” and moves towards [+ mood], [+ spoken language], [+ commendatory meaning]. Under the guidance of pragmatic theory, this paper investigates the “Da” word group and summarizes the characteristics of the original part of speech of “XX”, the active language attitude and the colloquial expression.