A Preliminary Phonetic Investigation of Alphabetic Words in Mandarin Chinese

Ding, Hongwei; Zhang, Yuanyuan; Liu, Hongchao; Huang, Chu‐Ren

doi:10.21437/interspeech.2017-876

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“…In a Chinese context and under the circumstance that codeswitching is restricted to the word/phrase level, I postulate that such language alternation can be referred to as alphabetic words. Defined as fully or partially romanised Chinese words, Chinese alphabetic words may either contain complete foreign morphemes or take a form of acronyms of Pinyin, the official romanisation system for standard Mandarin adopted in Mainland China (Ding et al, 2017;Hou & Teng, 2016;Su & Wu, 2013). The former category can be exemplified by alphabetic words such as 'hold住' hold zhu ('to hang in there'), while the latter can be exemplified by lg that stands for 老公 laogong ('hubby').…”

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Internet Memes In China: Cultural Image Macros of Code-Switching and Homonymy

Wang

2023

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Since China joined the Internet in the late 1980s, production and consumption of online cultural merchandise has been proliferating and permeating every section of society, exemplified by Internet literature, animation, comic and game. Meanwhile, there has emerged a veritable kaleidoscope of memes in China’s cyberspace, which are deployed on social media platforms to convey stances, emotions, humorousness, etc. Nonetheless, as a multi-faceted phenomenon, Internet memes fail to attain deserved academic scrutiny, so in this paper, I investigate one subcategory of memes in China’s cyberspace, viz. cultural memes, focusing on image macros that dynamically integrate visual effects and textual information. The text of cultural image macros can be generated via Chinese-English code-switching in the form of alphabetic words that are either idiomatic or related to Internet buzzwords. Alternatively, cultural image macros in China can be generated via homonymy: the vast majority of homonyms are homophones, while a small proportion of them are homographs. The corresponding images in the memes pertain to the inserted English words or constituents that are substituted, thereby complementing the text and strengthening humorous effects.

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Internet Memes In China: Cultural Image Macros of Code-Switching and Homonymy

Wang

2023

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“…The term "lettered words" or "alphabetic words" covers a multitude of sins in the literature and thus is clearly in need of careful and structured analysis. As mentioned above, previous research (Cook 2014;Ding et al 2017;Huang and Liu 黄居仁,刘洪超 2017) has demonstrated that one fundamental distinction that needs to be made is between alphabetic words that are borrowed directly from a European language and those that are coined by native speakers of Modern Standard Chinese. Within each of these two major groups, further subcategorization is also necessary.…”

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“…Speakers of any language are perfectly capable of expanding the lexicon of their mother tongue without necessarily having recourse to linguistic elements adopted from other languages. In the case of Modern Standard Chinese, it has been observed that even new words containing Latin letters (so-called "lettered" or "alphabetic words") should not necessarily be analyzed as loanwords since they are sometimes novel creations on the part of Chinese speakers (Cook 2014;Ding et al 2017;Huang and Liu 黄居仁,刘洪超 2017). Cook (2014) isolates three types of Modern Standard Chinese neologisms using Latin letters that are nevertheless deemed to be examples of lexical coinages rather than lexical borrowing; according to the classification system proposed in that study these include novel English expressions (e.g., love hotel), initialisms of Chinese (e.g., RMB; LKK) and Chinese initialisms of English (e.g., GF 'girlfriend'; BF 'boyfriend').…”

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“…It is an interesting feature of loans generally in language contact situations around the world that they frequently undergo some modification to the meaning and/or pronunciation during the borrowing process, and Modern Standard Chinese is no exception to this (cf. Ding et al 2017). Since loans are often (but by no means always) adopted from L2 to fill a perceived "gap" in the lexical resources of L1, the semantic designation of the borrowed expression may shift slightly to fit around or between existing semantic designations in L1.…”

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A typology of lexical borrowing in Modern Standard Chinese

Cook

2018

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The question of how best to classify Modern Standard Chinese loanwords is rather a fraught one. Various principles of categorization have been proposed in the literature; however, previous classification systems have generally covered only a relatively small proportion of all loanwords currently in use. Even attempts to provide an exhaustive catalog of lexical borrowing strategies have often been characterized by nontransparent structure, internal inconsistency or even incompleteness. This has hindered meaningful cross-linguistic comparisons of language change in Modern Standard Chinese vis-à-vis other languages. The aim of this paper is to present a new and clearly structured, comprehensive inventory of the different types of lexical borrowing that have occurred in Modern Standard Chinese over the past 30 to 40 years. Systematic cross-linguistic comparisons reveal that examples of almost all of the categories of lexical borrowing noted in the literature on English language change can likewise be provided in relation to Modern Standard Chinese. In addition, Chinese offers several options for borrowing lexical items not available to speakers of English. Overall, this paper presents a picture of Modern Standard Chinese speakers as cultivating a flexible, creative, playful approach to their use of language. The explicit recognition of the fact that many so-called "alphabetic words" are established loanwords is found to have implications for the typological classification of Chinese script, as well as for other fields such as second language teaching. A secondary finding not anticipated in the research question is that Chinese orthography shows tentative early signs of potentially developing from a morpho-logographic to a phonetic writing system.

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“…Numerous studies have tried to resolve the learning challenges from different perspectives. They include steps to overcome anxiety [39,40], motivation to increase performance [41,42], better learning strategies [43][44][45], improvised speaking methods [40,46], and improving intonation perception [47]. Some studies have also investigated the difficulties experienced by learners in technology-aided learning [46,48,49].…”

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Advances in Research on Technological, Pedagogical, Didactical, and Social Competencies of Preservice TCFL Teachers

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With the development of China, learning the Chinese language has received more and more attention from international students. Teaching Chinese as a foreign language (TCFL) is crucial for spreading Chinese culture and promoting cultural exchanges. In recent years it has become the focus of attention of many scholars, and the heterogeneous cultural backgrounds and diverse language needs of learners determine that TCFL should promote the development of students’ intercultural communication competence in language practice with the use of educational technology. In this study, 82 preservice teachers as an experiment group and 64 preservice teachers as a control group participated in this study; this research aims to improve the quality and level of TCFL, using innovative teaching tools as a means to target preservice TCFL teachers and create a teaching–learning design strategy based on the smart teaching tools Moso Teach (MT) and Rain Classroom (RC). The findings from this research show the importance of the use of smart teaching tools and the improvement of preservice teachers during the experiment compared to preservice teachers with traditional methods. This paper answers the following questions: (1) How to improve preservice TCFL teachers’ competencies by integrating smart teaching tools into their learning process? (2) How to integrate technological, pedagogical, didactic, and social competencies into preservice teachers’ daily teaching CFL?

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A Preliminary Phonetic Investigation of Alphabetic Words in Mandarin Chinese

Cited by 7 publications

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Internet Memes In China: Cultural Image Macros of Code-Switching and Homonymy

Internet Memes In China: Cultural Image Macros of Code-Switching and Homonymy

A typology of lexical borrowing in Modern Standard Chinese

Advances in Research on Technological, Pedagogical, Didactical, and Social Competencies of Preservice TCFL Teachers

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