2000-2002년 IT용어 수용을 통해서 본 중국의 사회언어학적 변이양상

Abstract

As we embrace the 21st century, Information technology (IT) is accompanied by the inflows of vast amount of terms to China. As a result, a huge confusion has been caused in the acceptance system of the words of foreign origin. In this regard, this research analyzed variation of social linguistic according to acceptance IT-related words used in 2000-2002year. The linguistic and social of the abovementioned of the words of foreign origin were diagnosed as follows: 1) vocabulary variation: The terms in the areas of IT and hi-tech were remarkably used in China, while the terms within the category of computer and Internet were conspicuously used in China. Looking into word composition, China had very high ratio of compound words. Especially, China had high ratio of partially cut form of words, and high use ratio of derivative words. 2) character variation: In terms of languages, China used English and mixed languages in order. Acronym use rates rapidly increased in China which led to a result that information sharing between societal members could be difficult. 3) grammer variation: IT-related Verb use rates rapidly increased in China.