The sources of new words and expressions in the Chinese Internet language and the ways by which they enter the Internet language

摘要

The given work is focused on the principal ways by which new words and expressions enter the Chinese Internet language, the sources of new meanings for old words and phrases; neologisms and chengyu with modified meaning and structure. Some new tendencies in developing of the Chinese Internet language, such as wide use of dialect-originated words, archaic characters and monosyllabic words, are introduced as well.