Core tip: The end of the year is approaching, the major hot word inventory has been released, from "Internet buzzwords" to "Network hot words" to "top ten new words", etc., all kinds of inventory not only netted the hot words of the past year, but also witnessed the social changes and new styles of the times in the past year. At the end of each year, the release of various hot word lists and the constantly updated Internet popular terms prove the vigorous vitality of the Chinese language.
Near the end of the year, the major hot word inventory has been released, from "Internet buzzwords" to "Internet hot words" to "top ten new words", etc., all kinds of inventory not only snare the hot words of the past year, but also witnessed the social changes of the year and the new style of the times. At the end of each year, the release of various hot word lists and the constantly updated Internet popular terms prove the vigorous vitality of the Chinese language.
Annual inventory gets together Chinese vocabulary back
Looking forward to a whole year
Recently, a number of language and writing research institutions and media have successively released different forms of 2021 annual vocabulary, buzzwords and hot words, including the "Chinese Inventory 2021" series jointly released by the National Language Resources Monitoring and Research Center, the "2021 Top Ten Buzzwords" released by the Editorial Department of "Chewing Words", and the "Top Ten Internet Buzzwords" inventory in 2021 sponsored by Language and Character Weekly.
The annual hot word inventory is held every year, and a large number of popular Chinese enter the public eye every year, and in each list that shows its characteristics, readers can not only look back at the hot events of the whole year through these inventory lists, but also more intuitively feel the profundity of the Chinese language.
On December 8, the editorial board of "Chewing Words" released the "Top Ten Buzzwords of 2021", and the selected words are: the greatest change in a hundred years, well-off, catching up with the exam, double reduction, carbon peak and carbon neutrality, wild consumption, broken defense, chicken baby, lying flat, metaverse.
On December 10, the results of the 2021 "Top Ten Internet Buzzwords" and "Top Ten Internet Hot Talks" sponsored by Language and Character Weekly were announced. Among them, the "Top Ten Internet Buzzwords" in 2021 are: volume/inner volume, lying flat, breaking defense, emo, YYDS (eternal god), bamboo shoots, gung continuation, social fear/social cattle, a whole ×, Puxin male/female; selected as the "Top Ten Internet Hot Talks" in 2021 are: the centenary of the founding of the party, "Jiangshan is the people, the people are Jiangshan", the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Double Reduction, Anti-Fraud, Three Children, Yuan Universe, Shandong Cao County, "Rice Circle/Rice Circle Rectification", and Foyuan.
The "Chinese Inventory" activity, jointly sponsored by the National Language Resources Monitoring and Research Center and the Commercial Press, has been held for 16 years, aiming to "describe China and the world in one word and one word", encouraging the whole people to record their lives in language and describing the social changes and the world under China's vision. "Chinese Inventory 2021" released the "Annual Top Ten Internet Terms", "Annual Top Ten Buzzwords", "Annual Top Ten New Words" and other lists, trying to cover the hot Chinese in 2021 in an all-round way, and depicting the past year through words, online terms and buzzwords.
The "Top Ten Internet Terms of the Year" released by "Chinese Inventory 2021" on December 6 includes: The Age of Awakening; YYDS; Double Reduction; Breaking Defense; Metaverse; Absolute Son; Lying Flat; Not Very Hurtful, Extremely Insulting; I Can't Understand It, But I'm Greatly Shocked; The Powerful Country Has Me. The "Top Ten Buzzwords of the Year" released by the "Chinese Inventory 2021" on December 13 are: Centenary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China, Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, China Aerospace, Double Carbon, Vaccination, Double Reduction, Beijing Stock Exchange, "Qinglang" Action, Vaccine Assistance, and Convention on Biological Diversity. The "Chinese Inventory 2021" has not yet released the "Top Ten New Words of the Year", but the shortlisted hot words have been announced: "governance", "reduction", "total", "change", "centenary of the founding of the party", "vaccine", "carbon neutrality", "metacosm" and so on.
In addition, there are also some niche vocabulary inventory, such as the recent joint release of the 2021 annual barrage by Bilibili and the People's Literature Publishing House, and the "broken defense" was selected. As an instant interactive method, the bullet screen intuitively presents the audience's reaction to specific content, and the resulting bullet screen culture also records the changes of young people and the times. "Broken defense" is originally a game term, in the Context of the Internet, the word has a richer meaning, in the "Broken Defense" expression of emotions, both young people's expression of personal emotions, but also the resonance of social events.
Another example is the "2021 National Annual Buzzword" released by Sogou Input Method, inviting Dai Jianye, Mao Danqing and others to conduct a multi-perspective interesting interpretation of this year's popular phrases from ten angles of linguistics, micro-reactions, classical literature, sound rhythm, urban emotions, female concerns, history and culture, social observation, era sentiment, and cross-cultural context, and this list has appeared some very niche, partial annual buzzwords, such as "storm inhalation is absolutely desperate", "clown is myself", "take it to you", "Bengbu lived" and so on.
Every year to the end of the year, many relevant institutions will release annual keyword lists, annual hot discussion lists, annual technology vocabulary inventory, annual entertainment vocabulary inventory and other various inventory related to hot words.
Linguists emphasize language specifications The selection of online platforms emphasizes the sense of networking
Through the above various types of hot word inventory, it can be seen that the list selected by professional language institutions pays more and more attention to the professionalism of the selection, as well as the grammar law of popular hot words, and advocates language norms, while the hot word selection led by the network platform pays more attention to the sense of the network, many words are very grounded, and some although niche, they also represent the expression habits of a group of netizens, as well as the novelty of the Chinese language.
In terms of focusing on professionalism, the "Chinese Inventory 2021" series is representative. For example, the "2021 Top Ten Popular Phrases of Chinese Media" in this series of lists is based on the national language resource monitoring corpus, using language information processing technology, combined with manual post-processing extraction and screening, the corpus comes from 15 mainstream newspapers in China from January 1, 2021 to the end of November 2021, the transcription corpus of 12 TV stations and 7 radio stations of CCTV, Central Broadcasting and local governments, and the entire text of 2 online portals, with a corpus scale of more than 1 billion words. From the corpus, it can be seen that this list pays more attention to the choice of hot words in mainstream expressions in 2021. The "Top Ten Internet Terms of 2021" monitoring corpus contains language resources in different media forms such as video barrages, online forums, and news, but the final selection of hot terms is actually more mainstream, and only YYDS, absolutely absolute and other pure network hot words that are out of the circle and have high practicality. The 2021 "Top Ten Internet Buzzwords" and "Top Ten Internet Hot Talks" sponsored by Language and Character Weekly are also high-heated online words.
"Chewing Words" selects the top ten buzzwords of the year, not limited to online language, considering the criteria of "sociological value" and "linguistic value" of the selected article, and deletes hot words such as "YYDS", "absolute son" and "bamboo shoot". The list advocates language norms, selects elegant, beautiful and pure language symbols, and selects words that conform to the rules of Chinese structure and Chinese grammar. The "gamification" tendency of words such as "absolutely absolute son" is obvious, which is different from the typical Chinese word construction law and cannot enter the list. "Shoots" is a pure harmonic string that lacks linguistic value and has also been removed.
The "2021 National Annual Buzzword" released by Sogou Input Method has a multi-perspective interesting interpretation of buzzwords, but the sense of network is full, deep into the young netizens, and a large number of niche words that netizens who are very sensitive to the language of the Network are more identified with, such as "I emo", "brave cows and cows are not afraid of difficulties", "Storm inhalation is absolutely desperate", "Clown is myself", netizens love to play the harmonic terrier "I live in Bengbu", "I Diga in the northeast", etc., expressing the state of young people," "large social death scene" "academic social animals" "Wild consumption", as well as the "nonsense literature", "oil and soil literature", "crazy literature", "male taunt language", etc., "human high-quality males", "star collapses", "drama-throwing star chasing", "squid games", "national anti-fraud", "Huaqiang buy melons", etc. reflect what young users of the Internet have been paying attention to all year round.
Internet buzzwords are controversial but also prove the vitality of the Chinese language
At the end of each year, the hot word inventory will trigger discussion, the most controversial are "Internet buzzwords", some people criticize them as "network black words", the various play terriers of network vocabulary are criticized as "text aphasia", and want to prescribe the right prescription for this, some people expect that the niche words popular among network users can be "corrected" - frequently used by the official media or included in the dictionary, it seems that these network words do not "turn positive" and have no existence value. "Internet buzzwords" as a constantly changing language use on the Internet, has a specific language range, it is popular on the Internet is frequently used, but not used in daily life spoken language, which is the distinctive feature of "Internet buzzwords".
We can best appreciate the breadth and profundity of the Chinese language in ancient Chinese and American languages, but the vitality of the Chinese language is also reflected in its epochality, synchronization and novelty, and each era has left buzzwords that record social, ideological and cultural history, such as democracy, science, the three major transformations, emancipation of the mind, reform and opening up, etc. In the great ocean of the Internet age, there have been countless Internet words and popular hot words, which are produced quickly and spread quickly, and only a very few can be left after the big waves and sands, but these eras and the "darlings" of Network words together depict the current Chinese use ecology.
Curious netizens will no longer use "city will play", "the power of the flood", "the gods and horses are floating clouds", "anyway, I believe", "Yuanfang how do you see", "treat me with long hair and waist", "blue skinny mushrooms", "Fahai you don't know love", "Pippi shrimp, we walk", "rain girl no melon" and other super popular Network words of the past year, these words after the peak of use, they were left behind by netizens, these novel, curious and even strange buzzwords will disappear, but these outstanding styles of vocabulary do enrich the language expression. This novelty and sensitivity of language expression can also better reflect social trends and new changes in the world. Under the standardization, guidance, self-purification and updating of Internet buzzwords, they have a strong vitality every year, and only then have they promoted the cultural phenomenon of hot word inventory at the end of each year (Qilu One Point reporter Shi Wenjing)
