The Fifth Milestone in the Development of Chinese Language
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https://doi.org/10.4312/ala.3.1.61-74Keywords:
Chinese, neologisms, language development, social gapAbstract
Chinese language has changed drastically in the recent century. Papers on the language development mainly stress four big events in the Chinese history that imposed changes in language, i.e. The May Fourth Movement (1919), establishment of the People’s Republic of China (1949), Cultural Revolution (1966), and China’s reform and opening (1978). According to the features of recent neologisms, we suggest that the widening gap between rich and poor should be considered as the fifth milestone for changes in Chinese language.
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