Community Identity and People’s Perception and Production of Internet Slang Written in Acronyms

Yulin Wang

doi:10.54254/2753-7064/28/20230382

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Wang,Y. (2024). Community Identity and People’s Perception and Production of Internet Slang Written in Acronyms. Communications in Humanities Research,28,255-262.

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Community Identity and People’s Perception and Production of Internet Slang Written in Acronyms

Yulin Wang *^,1,

¹ University of Szeged

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https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/28/20230382

Abstract

Internet slang has been a subject that has attracted researchers in the field of linguistics in recent years. In this paper, a quantitative and qualitative method is presented to study the relationship between community identity and people's perception and production of Internet slang written in acronyms, taking the community of fans in China, for example, and the phenomenon of the subculture incorporation in the aspect of the acronyms. It is demonstrated that there is no direct correlation between community identity and how people perceive and create acronyms. The influence of mass media and the Internet, government/official intervention, and people's propensity to follow trends may contribute to the subculture's incorporation in this aspect. The features of the most popular and the least popular acronyms outside the fan community are also presented in the paper.

Keywords

Internet slang, acronym, community identity, fan community, subculture incorporation

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Wang,Y. (2024). Community Identity and People’s Perception and Production of Internet Slang Written in Acronyms. Communications in Humanities Research,28,255-262.

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