流行语“水逆”研究

A Study on the Catchword “Shui Ni”

流行语作为一种新兴语言变体,在网络交际中起到非常重要的作用,深受年轻人的喜爱。“水逆”在现代汉语中由“水星逆行”引申出“遇事不顺时的调侃语”的义项。运用三个平面理论对“水逆”的句法、语义、语用进行全方位研究;采用定量与定性分析相结合的方法,对“水逆”一词的句法功能及词性进行研究;采用语料库检索的方法,历时梳理“水逆”一词的演变过程;采用语用顺应理论分析“水逆”的使用过程,并从语言内部与外部两个方面分析“水逆”一词走红的原因。

As a new language variant, catchwords play a very important role in network communication and are loved by the young. In modern Chinese,“shui ni” is derived from “Mercury retrograde” to a jest with the meaning of “something goes wrong”. The syntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects of “shui ni” are studied by using three plane theories. The syntactic functions and parts of speech of “shui ni” are studied by both quantitative and qualitative analyses, and the method of corpus retrieval is adopted. After combing the evolution of the word “shui ni”, the pragmatic adaptation theory is used to analyze the use of “shui ni”. And its epidemic reasons are then analyzed from both linguistic and non-linguistic perspectives.