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An Analysis of the Formation and Evolutionary Path of the Internet Buzzword ‘Versailles’

Authors
Jiangxin Zhang1, *
1College of Humanities and Arts, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, Shanghai, 201209, China
*Corresponding author. Email: wang.yuqing1@northeastern.edu
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Jiangxin Zhang
Available Online 31 December 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-170-8_52How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Vernacular; internet language; pragmatics
Abstract

Since 2020, ‘Versailles literature’ has been popular on the Chinese Internet with its unique style of speech. Countless netizens have imitated this trend, giving the word ‘Versailles’ a new connotation. In the same year, the famous periodical Bite the Words named the term ‘Versailles Literature’ as one of China’s top ten buzzwords for the year 2020. This article takes ‘Versailles’, the core meaning of the term ‘Versailles Literature’, as the object of the research, exploring the different discourse backgrounds and pragmatic features of the formation of this word from a linguistic perspective and analyzing the path of the evolution of the meaning and grammatical function of it, as well as exploring the rationale for its formation and evolution from the cognitive perspective. The research reveals that the meaning of the word ‘Versailles’ has evolved from ‘architecture’ and ‘high-profile extravagance’ to ‘low-profile ostentation’. The pragmatic function of this word has become increasingly abundant, and its grammatical function has also changed from a single noun to an adjective. From the perspective of cognitive linguistics, the formation of the internet buzzword ‘Versailles’ is a process in which the architectural domain activates the attribute domain and then activates the psychological domain. The transformation of the three cognitive domains provides conditions for the evolution of the word, which in turn enriches the application field of it.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2023 5th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2023)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
31 December 2023
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10.2991/978-2-38476-170-8_52
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-170-8_52How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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