ACLCHU260
Elaborations
- comparing the language of previous generations to their own language use and discussing the nature of the differences between them
- exploring how language change reflects the values of the time, or how language use can be seen as emblematic of an era, for example, the use of respectful terms such as 老革命 and 硬骨头in China in the 1960s
- examining new words added to Chinese dictionaries or introduced to social media and considering the reasons behind their development
- considering the impact of digital communication on language use, for example, that LOL in English now means ‘laugh out loud’ not ‘lots of love’, and that weibo has a 140-character word limit