Social Changes Manifested in the Diachronic Changes of Reform-Related Chinese Near Synonyms

This paper examines several reform-related Chinese near synonyms in the thousand-year long history of China, comparing them in both diachronic and synchronic dimensions. Through the enquiries of word frequency and usages in diachronic Chinese corpora and historical Chinese language databases, the re...

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Published inChinese Lexical Semantics Vol. 13250; pp. 184 - 193
Main Authors Li, Longxing, Wang, Vincent Xian, Huang, Chu-Ren
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2022
Springer International Publishing
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Corpus linguistics
Near synonyms
Reform
Social change
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Summary:This paper examines several reform-related Chinese near synonyms in the thousand-year long history of China, comparing them in both diachronic and synchronic dimensions. Through the enquiries of word frequency and usages in diachronic Chinese corpora and historical Chinese language databases, the results reveal the interplay between social realities and language use This study is an initial effort to relating a number of socially and historically significant synonymous words to the thousand-year long history of China through corpus linguistic enquiry.
Bibliography:The original version of this chapter was revised: an error in the affiliation of a co-author was corrected. The correction to this chapter is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06547-7_32
ISBN:9783031065460
3031065468
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-06547-7_15