An Analysis of the Popular Phenomenon of “Fo Xi X” in the View of Language Meme Theory
“Fo Xi” has become popular on the Internet since the end of 2017 and attracted widespread attention. Under the framework of “Fo Xi X”, people create many “Fo Xi” expressions according to different communication contexts, such as “Fo Xi Raising Children”, “Fo Xi Chasing Stars”, “Fo Xi Employees”, etc. It is obvious that the buzzword “Fo Xi X” has significant memetic qualities. At present, domestic researches on “Fo Xi” are mostly carried out from the perspectives of communication, culture, and sociology. Although a small number of scholars have analyzed the formation and dissemination of “Fo Xi” from the perspective of linguistics such as cognition and semantics, there is no scholar who has integrated internal factors such as structural, semantic, and pragmatic features, with external factors such as subjectivity and contextualization to analyze the influence on the generation, reproduction and spread of the linguistic meme “Fo Xi X” based on memetics. From the perspective of memetic theory, this thesis makes a tentative exploration of “Fo Xi X” expression, and provides a relatively comprehensive explanation of the internal and external factors that affect the generation, reproduction and dissemination of this expression, as well as the pragmatic functions that “Fo Xi X” expression realizes in the process of communication, which supplies a reference for the application of memetics to the study of language phenomena and enriches the case study of Internet buzzwords to a certain extent.
“佛系”自2017年底开始走红网络,引起广泛关注。在“佛系X”的框架下,人们根 据不同的交际语境创造出许多“佛系”的表达,如“佛系养子”、“佛系追星”、“佛系 员工”等。可以看出“佛系X”这个流行词具有显着的模因性质。目前国内对“佛系”的 研究多从传播学、文化学、社会学等角度进行。尽管有学者从认知、语义等语言学角度分 析了“佛系”的形成和传播,但尚未学者从结构、语义、语用特征等内部因素与外部因素 相结合。基于模因论,从主体性、语境化等角度分析对语言模因“佛系X”的生成、复制 和传播的影响。模因论起源于达尔文进化论观点解释文化进化规律的理论。它已成为语用 学研究领域的新兴热点,并在研究实践中表现出较强的解释力。因此,本论文以模因理论 为框架,选择网络流行语“佛系X”的表达为研究对象。本文从模因理论的角度对“佛系 X”表达方式进行了尝试性的探索,并对影响该表达方式产生、复制和传播的内外部因素 以及其语用性进行了较为全面的解释。“佛系X”表达在传播过程中实现的功能,为模因 论应用于语言现象研究提供了参考,也在一定程度上丰富了网络流行语的案例研究。