scholarly journals Language play in and with Chinese: traditional genres and contemporary developments

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-142
Author(s):  
Li Wei ◽  
Tong King Lee
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Language Play ◽  
Language For Specific Purposes ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Semiotic Resources ◽  
Political Dimensions

Abstract Language play is playing with the rules of language for fun. This article is one of the first attempts at providing an overview of the traditional genres and current trends of language play in and with Chinese, a topic that has received relatively little attention in English. We explore the specific aspects of the Chinese language that are susceptible to play, and discuss a number of conventional formulas of Chinese language play. We also examine the affordances of new media and what we call translanguaging language play that involves mixing different named languages and scripts as well as mixing linguistic with other semiotic resources. The motivations and effects of language play are discussed, giving particular attention to the socio-political dimensions of language play. Throughout the discussion, we provide historical as well as contemporary examples to illustrate the ways in which Chinese language users play with language for specific purposes.

The application of AI in the aesthetic cultivation of Chinese education

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Yajuan Wang ◽  
Wen li ◽  
Ruifang Xu
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Decision Tree ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Chinese Education ◽  
Coordinated Development ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
C4.5 Algorithm ◽  
Literature Education ◽  
The Aesthetic

This article will briefly analyse the research background and research significance of the infiltration of aesthetic cultivation in Chinese language and literature education in the context of new media. And through the calculation based on decision tree and C4.5 algorithm, the paper tries to makes the construction of infiltration system of aesthetic cultivation in Chinese language and literature education in the context of new media more scientific and reasonable. This paper also analyses the main connotation and significance of aesthetic cultivation and puts forward the effective infiltration way of aesthetic cultivation in Chinese language and literature in the context of new media, aiming at promoting the comprehensive and coordinated development of Chinese students.

The Three Cs of Key Music Sector Trends Today

2011 ◽  
pp. 373-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paschal Preston ◽  
Jim Rogers
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Commercial Music ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Media ◽  
Business As Usual

Drawing upon a recent examination of contemporary trends in the music industry, this chapter explores the evolving relationships between new digital media technologies, socio-economic factors and media cultures as we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century. We examine the implications of these trends with regard to three fundamental concepts in the analysis of culture, namely commodification, concentration and convergence. We draw upon these concepts to guide our study of a music industry that is widely perceived as a leading site for new media developments. In this study we question the extent to which the music industry is experiencing transformations or significant disruptions resulting from technological innovations, or whether it is actually much more a case of ‘business as usual’ in the commercial music industry. Thus, this chapter interrogates and challenges the dominant framing of current debates around the notion of ‘crisis’ in the music industry. Furthermore, it considers how the concepts of commodification, concentration and convergence remain crucial to an informed and thorough understanding of current trends in the media and cultural industries.

Art and Minitel in France in the 1980s

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annick Bureaud
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Media Art ◽  
Collaborative Practices ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
New Media Art ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Internet Platform ◽  
Net Art

The Minitel (French videotex system) is often considered as a “pre-Internet” platform and the art that was created with it as belonging to “network art” and/or “collaborative” practices on a “social media” avant la lettre. In which respect is this true? This article provides an initial map and a typology of minitel-based creative practice by identifying works and documenting its context as it happened in France, compared to other countries. With detailed descriptions of selected works and of the ART ACCES online magazine-gallery project, it proposes an analysis that will be compared to and confront net art, new media art, and current trends in e-publishing.

The language of Chinese Buddhism

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Qingzhi Zhu ◽  
Bohan Li
Keyword(s):  
Historical Linguistic ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Chinese Buddhism ◽  
Language Play ◽  
The Past ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lay Buddhists

Abstract This is a more detailed introduction of the language of Chinese Buddhism based on our latest research of Buddhist Chinese, which is a modern Chinese historical linguistic category applied to a form of written Chinese originated for and used in Buddhist texts, including the translations into Chinese of Indian Buddhist scriptures and all Chinese works of Buddhism composed by Chinese monks and lay Buddhists in the past. We attempt to answer in this paper the following questions: What is Buddhist Chinese? What is the main difference between Buddhist Chinese and non-Buddhist Chinese? What role did this language play in the history of Chinese language development? And what is the value of this language for the Chinese Historical Linguistics?

scholarly journals Language Play and Linguistic Hybridity as Current Trends in Hungarian Word-Formation

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Réka Benczes ◽  
Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra
Keyword(s):  
Economic Performance ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Language Play ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Asian Tiger ◽  
Global Spread ◽  
Language Boundaries ◽  
The One ◽  
Morphological Research

Hungarian literature on word-formation typically focuses on rule-governed descriptions of regular and typologically relevant patterns. However, there are plenty of other word-formation trends that usually go unnoticed in mainstream morphological research. The present paper will focus on two such trends: 1) rhyming and alliterating compounds such as pannon puma ‘Pannonian puma’ (a euphemism for Hungary’s economic performance, on the analogy of Asian tiger); and 2) creative prefixations such as meggugliz (‘to google’) and felhájpol (‘to hype’). Although these are seemingly two quite different patterns, in fact they share two significant traits. On the one hand, they are demonstrations of the fact that language users make full use of the creative possibilities in language and routinely play with sounds and meanings. On the other hand, they are also indications of the influential role of English in present-day Hungarian word-formation. It seems that language users are not only aware of the possibilities that this interference can result in but are also able to exploit these consciously. This crossing of language boundaries is becoming increasingly inevitable with the global spread of English.

scholarly journals Individualized and Depoliticized: A Study of Chinese Blogosphere in Singapore

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-45
Author(s):  
Carol Soon ◽  
Jui Liang Sim
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
New Media ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
English Language ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Blogs ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Public Scrutiny

Research on new media such as blogs examines users’ motivations and gratifications, and how individuals and organizations use them for political participation. In Singapore, political blogs have attracted much public scrutiny due to the bloggers’ online and offline challenges of official discourse. While previous research has established the political significance of these blogs, extant scholarship is limited to blogs written in the English language. Little is known about blogs maintained by the Chinese community, the largest ethnic group in multi-racial Singapore. This study is a first to examine this community and the space they inhabit online. Through web crawling, we identified 201 Chinese-language blogs and through content analysis, we analyzed if Chinese bloggers contributed to public debates and used their blogs for civic engagement. Their content, motivations for blogging in the language, hyperlinking practices and use of badges indicated that Chinese bloggers in Singapore do not use blogs for political participation and mobilization, but are individualized and a-politicized. We discuss possible reasons and implications in this paper.

scholarly journals Teaching of the Japanese and Chinese Language in Extracurricular Courses for Children, Adolescents and Adults in Slovenia

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-118
Author(s):  
Karmen FEHER MALAČIČ
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Main Interest ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Adolescents And Adults ◽  
History Of ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The One ◽  
Chinese Teaching

The presentation includes a brief history of Japanese and Chinese teaching and learning at Pionirski dom and the current trends. On the one hand, it explores the reasons why so many youngsters decide to learn Japanese or Chinese, what is their main interest and what is they want to achieve. On the other hand, it tackles the points of view of teachers of the Japanese and Chinese language towards language teaching and the issues raised while teaching. Pionirski dom is probably the only institution in Slovenia with so many young learners and teenagers enrolled in Japanese courses and with a decade of experience in the area. Much attention is, therefore, put on quality programmes and the choice of suitable teachers.

The Chinese-Language Press in Australia: A Preliminary Scoping Study

2011 ◽  
Vol 138 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanning Sun ◽  
Jia Gao ◽  
Audrey Yue ◽  
John Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
English Language ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Chinese Community

Despite clear evidence pointing to the centrality of the Chinese press in the historical formation of the Chinese community, and despite the continued importance of the Chinese-language press in the current political, cultural, social and economic life of the Chinese community, there is little understanding of its history and recent growth in mainstream English-language media scholarship. Worse still, the shift in recent scholarship to the power of cyberspace and other forms of new media in assisting the formations of diasporic subjectivities runs the risk of giving the impression that the print media are no longer relevant. Our article aims to address this blind spot by mapping out the contours of change and continuity within the Chinese-language press in Australia. In the first part, we provide a brief historical account of the Chinese migrant communities in Australia, and the role of the press in their formation. We argue that this symbiotic relationship is crucial to understanding the development of the early Chinese-language print media in Australia, which was a less than hospitable society for the Chinese migrants. We then trace the development and evolution of the Chinese-language print media in a range of areas, including the Chinese-language media's current modus operandi, business strategies, cultural practices and ideological positioning, within the context of China's rise and the widening impact of China's promotion of soft power. We conclude by identifying some future directions in the research on the Chinese-language media in Australia, thus contributing to our understanding of some of the opportunities and challenges present in the (re)shaping of Australia's multicultural policies and politics.

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