Author(s)

Dong Xueran ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China

Corresponding Author

Dong Xueran

ABSTRACT

According to memetics, meme is the basic transmission unit of human ideas, culture language and behavior. The Meme Theory is a new theory based on Darwin's theory of evolution and used to explain the law of cultural evolution. From the perspective of memetics this paper analyzes the phenomenon of code. Analyzing the reasons for the production and existence of memes from the perspective of pragmatics of memetics, in order to deepen the research on the formation and evolution mechanism of internet language. Memetics is a new theory based on Darwin's theory of evolution, used to explain the laws of cultural evolution. Memes are the basic units of human thought, concepts, culture, language, and behavior transmission. With the increasing frequency of economic, cultural, and political exchanges and interactions among countries, the connections between different language communities have become closer. As a natural product of social development and human civilization language is also constantly evolving and updating. The Internet not only provides a virtual community for netizens to make information exchange more convenient but also has a great impact on our language. In this way "netspeak" came into being. The so-called "network language" refers to the language used by people in web pages, e-mails online chat rooms or online forums. Due to the richness and randomness of network language we can find a large number of code-mixing in Chinese and English phenomena in network communication. 

KEYWORDS

Code-mixing; meme theory; netspeak; pragmatics

CITE THIS PAPER

Dong Xueran, A Study of Code-mixing in Netspeak: from the Perspective of the Meme Theory. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 1-5. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.060701.

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