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A Cognitive Study on Naming Mechanisms of QQ Nicknames
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2023
Pages:
20-26
Received:
11 April 2023
Accepted:
2 May 2023
Published:
10 May 2023
Abstract: Language is the carriage of ideas. Social reality pushes the advancement of language, and language reflects social reality. As the world has entered into the Age of Information, people are exposed to digital screens and online social media. Nowadays, people, especially young people, lay great emphasis on not only their real-life individuality but also their online images. Among all the social media apps, QQ is favored by Chinese people for a long time with over 530 million accounts. With fewer requirements in making nicknames, the naming mechanisms of QQ nicknames provide an interesting perspective for cognitive and linguistic study. Nicknames on social media are regarded as a mutation of people’s traditional names, allowing people to extend their creativity and project their personalities on the nicknames. This research chooses the QQ nicknames of the Grade 2020 undergraduates at Hohai University as research objectives. To find out the feature of the nicknames of the target group and explore the naming mechanisms underlying the nicknames, first, the essay goes through previous studies on the naming mechanisms and absorbs related research experience, and second, establishes a theoretical framework that includes three models: Event-domain Cognitive Model (ECM), the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CM1), and the Conceptual Metonymy Theory (CM2). After collecting 255 QQ nicknames and establishing a closed corpus of the nicknames, this paper makes reasonable categorization for further study. To solve the rest of the research problems, a thorough analysis is made and two compound models are established. Results show that the QQNE+CM1 Model is the most commonly seen naming mechanism of the target group. At the end of the paper, a discussion and evaluation of the entire research are done. This essay provides a new aspect for understanding the naming mechanisms of the young generation and may be conducive to further related studies.
Abstract: Language is the carriage of ideas. Social reality pushes the advancement of language, and language reflects social reality. As the world has entered into the Age of Information, people are exposed to digital screens and online social media. Nowadays, people, especially young people, lay great emphasis on not only their real-life individuality but a...
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Sampling Practices in Communication Studies: A Decade of Research in Four Top Journals
Kory Floyd,
Nathan T. Woo,
Jeannette Maré,
Kaylin L. Duncan
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2023
Pages:
27-41
Received:
22 May 2023
Accepted:
8 June 2023
Published:
15 June 2023
Abstract: Background: The ability to draw accurate inferences from research depends heavily on the quality and representativeness of research samples. Research samples in the social sciences, including communication, are frequently criticized for being small and unrepresentative, yet there is substantial variation in sample characteristics. Objective: The objective of this project was to undertake a systematic examination of the characteristics of human samples used in communication research in major communication journals, in order to respond to the criticisms that such samples are small, underpowered, and lacking in external validity. Method: To ascertain the status of human samples in communication research, this project examined every empirical study published between 2010 and 2019 in four top communication journals—Communication Monographs, Communication Research, Human Communication Research, and Journal of Communication—that reported data from human subjects. The data set included 1,264 individual studies and a total sample size of 932,060 participants. Results and Conclusion: Sample sizes ranged from 10 to 57,847 participants, with an average of 740.12 participants, and were larger for non-experiments than experiments, quantitative than qualitative studies, and secondary than primary data analyses. Ninety-four countries were represented in the samples, although more than 70% of samples were recruited exclusively from the United States. Compared to U. S. demographics, such studies oversampled younger participants, female participants, and white participants.
Abstract: Background: The ability to draw accurate inferences from research depends heavily on the quality and representativeness of research samples. Research samples in the social sciences, including communication, are frequently criticized for being small and unrepresentative, yet there is substantial variation in sample characteristics. Objective: The ob...
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Reading “The Return of Chorb” by V. Nabokov as Neo-mythological Novel
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2023
Pages:
42-46
Received:
8 January 2023
Accepted:
8 May 2023
Published:
6 July 2023
Abstract: A typology of the approach of writers of the 19th – 20th centuries to Wagner's musical dramas as an intertext has been given in the article. This may be a manifestation of the novel creators' erudition, a recollection of an anecdotal situation that arises on the basis of an opera's plot, an implicit foreshadowing of tragic events in a work, etc. Along with the point mention of Wagner operas in the works of world literature, there is also a different approach to the work of Richard Wagner. In this case, writers are attracted by the fact that when creating almost all of his librettos for operas, the composer creatively processed German myths and medieval German legends. On the basis of these librettos, neo-mythological works arise. Among them is V. Nabokov's short story “The Return of Chorb”, the “cipher-code” of which is the medieval myth of “a simpleton with a pure heart”, which is the basis for the libretto of Wagner's opera “Parsifal”, and on three levels: the system of images of the novella, its ontological and religious levels. The analysis showed that Nabokov took into account almost all genre features of the neo-mythological short story. At the same time, it should be noted that the writer approached this genre not formally, but having deeply mastered symbolist aesthetics, which was reflected in Nabokov's short story up to the creation of the author's creative legend about himself and his compatriots who were forced to leave their homeland.
Abstract: A typology of the approach of writers of the 19th – 20th centuries to Wagner's musical dramas as an intertext has been given in the article. This may be a manifestation of the novel creators' erudition, a recollection of an anecdotal situation that arises on the basis of an opera's plot, an implicit foreshadowing of tragic events in a work, etc. Al...
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