什麼時候「認真就輸了」？——語料庫中「認真」一詞的語意變化(Do We Lose When Being Serious? —Change in Meaning of the Word “Renzen(認真)” in Corpora)

������������ ——��������������� Do We Lose When Being Serious? —Change in Meaning of the Word “Renzen(��)” in Corpora ��� Pei-Yi Chen ������������ Department of English National Chengchi University 101501040@nccu.edu.tw ��� Siaw-Fong Chung ������������ Department of English National Chengchi University sfchung@nccu.edu.tw �� � � ������������������������������������� ������������������������� ������������� ����/����������������������������������� ����(authentic language use)������������������������ �������������������������������������� ��(negative tone)� ���(collocation)���(connotation)������������ ������������������������� COPENS �������� �������������������������������������� ��������������� ����������������������� �������������������������� ������������ �������������������������������������� The 2016 Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing ROCLING 2016, pp. 52-81  The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing 52 Abstract From the Internet slang “������(You’ll lose if being serious)” to a wide variety of collocations with the word “��(being serious)”, the Internet users in Taiwan show a preference to the word “��.” While the dictionary definitions of this word have included “being practical”, “being serious”, and “not being careless,” this study aims to bridge the gap between dictionary and authentic language use, and see how this word is differently used during online text discussion. Written Mandarin corpora Sinica Corpus and COPENS are selected as the analysis data for comparison between formal written texts and online discussion texts in terms of the negative tone in a sentence, collocations, and connotations. The results show that Taiwanese Internet users have divided opinions about whether to restrict the word to a positive connotation, or impose a negative connotation on this word. However, although the slang is less seen on the Internet, the word “��” is still frequently used. This study concludes that people try to convey the message that they can take whatever they think important serious regardless of the conventions, and still hold onto a serious attitude. ��������������COPENS������������ Keywords: ��, online text discussion, COPENS, negative tone, collocation, connotation 1. Introduction During daily conversations or online text discussion, people usually produce sentences starting with “���(I think)” to express their thoughts, yet people become increasingly accustomed to the insertion of “��(serious, seriously, seriousness, or to be serious)” in a sentence such as “�����(I seriously think, or seriously speaking)” to emphasize their attitude. This phenomenon of insertion does not occur alone in the abovementioned example sentence, but is widely seen during informal discussion. While people can propose their ideas in a serious manner, they show the opposite attitude with responses like the sentences “������(Why are you so serious)” and “����� (You will lose if being serious).” Therefore, this research aims to study the contradiction in the insertion phenomenon from the perspective of Corpus Linguistics, for corpora are capable of 53 presenting the authentic language used in real situations. 2. Literature Review 2.1 The Origin of the Internet Slang “�����” The Internet slang “������(You’ll lose if being serious)” is originated from a Hong Kong web novel of the same name by Su, Lin(��) [1]. One of its main characters repeats this phrase when giving advice on a love tangle in the novel, and continues to explain that whoever puts true heart into a relationship is very likely to lose someday(������ ����������������������) [2]. Soon afterwards, this phrase became a trend among …

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