On the Formation and Semantic Evolution of “Gou” Word Family
语言是人类重要的交际工具,社会的发展及人们心态变化必然会促使语言的变化,生 活和工作中的压力、愤懑必然会在语言中反映出来,汉语通过自身特点逐步产生出“狗” 词族的用法对其进行指称。用“狗”词族来调侃显示生活中的压力,不仅新颖独特,又轻 松幽默,加上网络媒体的传播扩散使得新词“狗”词族快速发展,成为一个附缀式的构词 语模。“狗”词族的形成经历了“不受待见”“人们接受”“乐于自称”的一系列演变积 累,借助“V成狗”格式达到模糊“狗”的词根义,并通过框式填词的力量使人们接受 “狗”,最后在“狗”词族中通过结构规约成为一个词语模,完成“狗”指人的类词缀用 法。因此,本文拟从“狗”词族的形成轨迹切入,探讨词素“狗”的语义演变以及“狗” 词族的主要特点。
Based on corpus linguistics, synchronic and diachronic linguistics, lexicology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and other theoretical knowledge, this paper makes a dynamic and in-depth study of the “Gou” popular neologisms. Under the guidance of corpus linguistics, this paper makes a statistical analysis of the word family of “Gou”, summarizes the growth of the number of members of the word group, the high frequency use of the word family, the syllable structure of the members of the word family, etc., and shows the changing characteristics of the word group in various aspects. Using the methods of etymology investigation and dynamic tracking, this paper analyzes that the word family of “dog” is a process in which many new words of “xxgou” type are derived from the original use of “single dog”, and gradually expand to 128 members. Under the guidance of lexicology theory, by means of semantic analysis, this paper sums up four referential meanings of "Gou" from the referential meaning of [+ animal] to [+ human], and then, through generalization, it derives four referential meanings of [+ identity], [+ profession / profession / field], [+ state], [+ stress / tension], [+ preference], [+ behavior / thing], [+ aversion], [+ behavior / thing]. Under the guidance of pragmatics theory, this paper explores the word family of “Gou” and summarizes the characteristics of the morpheme “Gou” of the family of words with the characteristics of quasi affixation, trisyllabic structure of words and single part of speech of members of the word group.