热词“内卷”的流行与社会心理的分析

The Popularity of the Hot Word"Involution(内卷)"and the Analysis of the Social Psychology

"内卷"是2020年十大流行语之一,其作为行业语在流行过程中依次经历了隐喻性语义泛化的三个阶段,在第三阶段中"内卷"的意义逐渐含混并能表达多种消极情绪。与此同时,"内卷"的句法功能也在不断增多,并有产生词族的倾向。"卷"作为动词"内卷"的同义词得到了广泛的使用,虽然独立性还不强,但是有能够独立运用的趋势。"内卷"一词在传播中激发了人们的身份认同并体现了网络情绪的标签式表达。它虽是典型的消极网络热词,并伴随有"丧文化"的氛围,但它不完全在传播消极情绪,而是表达出当代年轻人群的一种自嘲式奋斗的心态。

"involution(内卷)"is one of the top 10 catchwords of 2020.As a jargon,"involution(内卷)"goes through three stages of metaphorical semantic generalization successively.In the third stage,the meaning of"involution(内卷)"gradually becomes vague and can express a variety of negative emotions.At the same time,the syntactic functions of"involution(内卷)"are also increasing,and there is a tendency to produce word families.As a synonym of the verb"involution(内卷)","juan(卷)"has been widely used.Although its independence is not strong,it tends to be used independently.In the process of communication,the word"involution(内卷)"evokes people's identity and reflects the label expression of network emotion.Although it is a typical negative hot word on the Internet and accompanied by the atmosphere of"decadence culture",it does not completely spread negative emotion,but expresses the self-mockery effort mentality of the contemporary young people.