试析汉语网络新词“尬”

Abstract

in 2016, the word “ga” began to be used on the Internet alone, which has attracted more and more attention, and even formed a type of online subculture, an awkward culture. This paper investigates The word family of “ga” generated online, and sorts out The word family of “ga” collected from the network communication platform, news newspapers and previous research, makes a static description of The word family of “ga” from the perspectives of semantics, grammar and pragmatics and finally sums up its characteristics and rules in these three aspects. Firstly, this paper probes into the semantics of “ga” in a diachronic and synchronic way, and discovers that the original meaning of “ganga” refers to wrong or undesirably by figuring out the evolution of it meaning and semantic. In modern Chinese, it is extended to indicate the situation that is difficult to handle or embarrassing. With frequent use of the expressions “gawu”, “galiao”, “gaxiao”, “gazi”and other words online, magazines and newspapers, the expression do “ga X” has been gradually popularized, indicating to battle and to embarrass. In addition, the semantic meaning of The word family of “ga X” is different from that of “ganga”, with the semantic features of low or unprofessional. In the emotional aspect, The word family of “ga” are generally derogatory. However, in different contexts, they may be neutral. In terms of the language styles, The word family of “ga” are usually presented in the form of words, but with obvious oral color. Secondly, it analyzes the structure and syntactic functions of The word family of “ga”, and the word “ga” can be used alone, mainly used as predicates and attributives in sentences. In the compounds of do “ga X”, X is mainly a noun or verb, and the compounds in the form of do “ga X” are also nouns or verbs, most of which function as predicates, attributives, objects or subjects while a few as complements. Thirdly, this paper explores the exclusively pragmatic value of The word family of “ga”, which have values of evaluation, simplicity and novel humor in use.