abstract:
Hard core originally refers to a rap music style with strong sense of strength and intense rhythm. After being introduced into China from abroad, other popular new meanings were extended under the influence of social and cultural environment. Because of its popularity, this word was chosen as one of the top ten buzzwords in 20 19. On the basis of collecting corpus, this paper selects some representative sentences and discusses the word "hard core" in depth. This paper studies the part-of-speech grammar, polysemy, function and usage, formation and development, meaning and standardization of this word.
Keywords: hardcore network hot words function
Introduction: At the beginning of 20 19, the popularity of the movie The Wandering Earth triggered a discussion about "hardcore science fiction", and the popularity of "hardcore science fiction" further increased. 20 19 12 was selected as one of the top ten buzzwords in Chewing Word 20 19 and the "Top Ten Internet Terms in 20 19" published by the National Language Resources Monitoring and Research Center. On the 6th of the same month, it was selected as "20 19 Top Ten Popular Words in China Media". The appearance of hardcore rock, hardcore games, hardcore mothers, hardcore players and hardcore doctors is actually the gradual evolution of this word, and the familiar popular vocabulary has also changed in usage and emotional expression, enriching people's lives. Based on the corpus reported by various media websites, this paper makes a general analysis of the original meaning, causes and polysemy of the word "hardcore". People's Daily takes the word "hard core" as the research object, and describes it in detail from three aspects: application field, usage and meaning. "Hard core" is widely used, with the highest frequency in the game field, followed by the film and television field. On this basis, this paper makes a comprehensive study of the word "hard core".
First, "hard core" and the evolution of ambiguity
Hardcore, in English, refers to a form of music, which is considered more powerful. In the 1970s, punk was the most intense and extreme branch. Its melody is simple, but faster and more powerful, and it is also defined as "a very harsh punk rock." Except for melody hardcore and modern hardcore, most hardcore bands never pay attention to the diversity of melody. Almost without exception, they use a twisted guitar as the beginning of the song, and then add a lot of fuzzy and powerful chords. However, the political views reflected in their lyrics are very revolutionary. Later, it was gradually extended to the game field, which was used for compatible games with high difficulty coefficient, small audience and strong challenges, such as "hardcore players" and "simply mocking novices!" Count the hardcore games that the disabled party can't conquer. " ? With the expansion of "hardcore game" players, "hardcore" is well known by more and more people, and its application scope is also expanding.
Hard core music and hard core games are the earliest origins of the word "hard core". The word "hard core" has been given a new meaning of "very powerful, cool, tough and hard" because of its characteristics of "intense and full of power" and "difficult to engage with but few audiences". With the expansion of domestic players, netizens began to use the word "hardcore" alone, forming many new language structures. The use of hardcore is no longer limited to games and music. Later, it was expanded to "something facing the core audience, which has certain difficulty and appreciation threshold" or "behavior style similar to the core audience or high-level enthusiasts". The generalization of word meaning makes the word "hard core" gradually applied to daily life, and even become a popular hot word on the Internet. For example, hardcore girlfriend, hardcore uncle, hardcore novel, hardcore temperament. At first, it was used to describe people or things that are full of positive energy, cool, straightforward and powerful in a certain field. Later, it was extended to derogatory, ironic and ridiculous meanings, describing people or things who thought they were very powerful but dared not do things rashly. This paper summarizes the common semantics: 1, indicating that something is key, important and core; 2, very professional, very powerful; High-end; Difficult; 3, said strong, mighty, domineering, positive response; 4. It means that something is funny and shocking.
Second, the part of speech and grammatical function of "hardcore"
First, analyze the word "hardcore" itself. There is no hard-core entry in Modern Chinese Dictionary at present. From the nature of morphemes, "hard" is a word-forming morpheme with strong, firm and unchangeable meaning, while "core" is an indefinite morpheme, indicating the center of something. Generally speaking, the word "hard core" is a biased noun, which is intuitively interpreted as "hard core" and "hard block". How to interpret it as a fierce, extreme, difficult and powerful adjective? It is precisely because of the absorption of "hard core" to "fierce", "hard" and "strong" that the meaning of "fierce" and "brave" is extended. The following will be elaborated from its grammatical function:
(A) as an attribute, adverbial
In a large number of corpus studies, it is found that the word "hardcore" is very common as an attribute and adverbial component. When "hardcore" is used as an attribute, there are two constructions: "hardcore X" and "hardcore X", which are mostly nouns and can represent people, things and fields. Examples: hardcore tutor, hardcore science fiction, hardcore specialty, hardcore youth, hardcore strength, hardcore industry, hardcore variety, hardcore works, etc. When used as an attribute, nouns are modified into adjectives. In the above example, "hard core power" refers to the key and core power. "Hard-core" youth refers to young people who are passionate, strong, independent and determined to live their own lives. When "hardcore" is used as an adverbial, such as "hardcore response", "hardcore operation", "hardcore constraint" and "hardcore challenge". At this time, "hard core" is used as an adverbial modifier verb.
(A) as a predicate
For example, companies pay high salaries, and job seekers show their talents. This special job fair with precise docking of supply and demand is super "hardcore". (Workers Daily 201912.3); This mother is too hard-core! The "hard core" in the above example acts as a predicate in the sentence, indicating advanced, high-end and powerful respectively.
(2) Acting as subject and object
For example, hard core is not the mainstream, so why pursue hard core? (Sohu Public Platform, 2065438+06-08-03); "Walking Paradise" is the hard core of green travel (Beijing Youth Daily, 20 19-06-05). The word "hard core" is rarely used as subject and object alone. The "hard core" at this time may refer to the hard core of a specific thing, or it may be a firm and intense state.
The Popular Reasons and Cultural Value of "Hard Core"
First of all, due to the development of social economy and culture, people's spiritual and cultural needs have become rich. Language is produced in social production activities and also reflects certain social and cultural progress. As far as the popularity of the word "hardcore" is concerned, it is inseparable from the development of network technology, and in the final analysis, it is the development of economy and society.
Secondly, the popularity of "hardcore" is closely related to social life, and the popularity of the word "hardcore" is closely related to social hot topics, because it attracted the attention of netizens in The Wandering Earth during the Spring Festival of 20 19 and became popular as "hardcore science fiction", which also reflects that it is closely related to social development and cultural development, which is not only the result of unilateral development of social culture.
Furthermore, the popularity of the word "hard core" is also closely related to people's value orientation. With the expansion of the scope of use, the word "hard core" began to gradually enter the mainstream culture, and the frequency of use was getting higher and higher. Compared with other online buzzwords, "hardcore" is more about transmitting positive energy of society, and more about recognition and admiration. It is more in line with the mainstream values of society. "Hard core" expresses a belief culture, encourages everyone to be consistent with such values as firmness, integrity, courage and pursuit, dares to interpret self-worth and forms positive social energy.
As far as cultural value is concerned, "hard core" is a kind of courage to pursue oneself without affectation, and it is also a kind of strength and courage. Nowadays, the sudden emergence of network culture makes various value orientations mixed together. In the face of network culture, they ridicule and unconsciously penetrate into every aspect of life. We should learn to distinguish right from wrong, treat the rise of new words on the Internet dialectically, take its essence and discard its dross. The word "hard core" is exactly the brave personality that the younger generation needs to carry forward and the pursuit of the thickness of life. Therefore, under the guidance of the pursuit of positive energy value in today's society, "hard core" culture is "hard core"!
Conclusion: This paper discusses the evolution process, semantic and grammatical functions of hard-core buzzwords from the linguistic level, and discusses their popular social and cultural factors and cultural values from the perspective of social research. The word "hard core" has a wide meaning, wide application and flexible application, which embodies the positive energy of society. In the process of evolution and generalization, it has not lost its original significance and value. In the era of the rise of contemporary network culture, we should use the word "hard core" correctly, and the cultural value it carries still has great room for development and dissemination in the future.
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