语言变异的模因视角分析——从网络语言谈起

A Study of Language Variation from Memetic Perspective

模因论将人类文化发展和传承类比于基因的复制、传播,甚至是变异。网络语言的发展和变化正体现了语言模因的自然选择过程。网络语言的传播和流行是语言模因适应信息时代语言交流的结果。

Memetics provides a new approach to understand the heritage of culture in a broad sense of Darwinian evolution, which analyzes the analogy of genes and memes in terms of replication, transmission and even variation. As one of the means of cultural transmission, language experiences natural selection in its progress and variation. This article takes into consideration the variation of internet language, and attempts to probe these variations in memetic perspective.