An Analysis of the Word "Meng" Lexicality

Abstract

Today, there is a "Meng" trend on the Internet. Various cute cartoon images, cute photos and videos of animals, plants or characters appearing in short videos, online games with the theme of " Meng ", Internet buzzwords with cute attributes, etc. are widely spread on the Internet and are deeply loved by the Internet. Everyone's favorite. "Cute" can refer to any person or thing, from children to the elderly, from pet cats and dogs to deformed anime images, from ancient emperors and generals to Q-version portraits... and so on, can all be considered " Meng ". "Cute", thus reflecting that it is being accepted and liked by the public as a culture, and that it has broadness and universality. This article takes the word " Meng " as the research object to explore the evolution of its ancient and modern meanings, the reasons for its evolution, and the existing controversies. "Meng" has a new part of speech - adverbial part of speech. When the author used the literature research method to collect documents, I found that " Meng " is the most common use as an adjective, meaning " Meng ": "cute" as a verb meaning "like" was more common in the early days, but now it has become marginalized; Another meaning of the verb " Meng " is "to be struck by cute things" which is now very popular. In the early days, " Meng " was often used alone to mean " Meng ". Later, "cute" was often associated with "silly", "dumb", etc. Used together and very popular. But why did previous literature propose the concept of " Meng " as an adverb? Therefore, the author collects corpus based on the corpus, uses semantic comparison to explore the possibility and rationality of the adverbial part of speech of " Meng ", and hopes to provide help and suggestions for future research.
Keywords: cute; adverb; semantics; corpus