Study on the Influence of Homophones in Modern Chinese on Communication

摘要

The existence of a large number of homophones in modern Chinese is bound to exert some influence on the use of Chinese. Of course, the impact is twofold, with both negative and positive effects. This is a linguistic fact. As Huai Qing pointed out in Modern Chinese Vocabulary, on the one hand, he pointed out: "The existence of polysemy and homophone is a manifestation of simple economy of language symbols, which makes it easy to grasp and use. Some people talk about polysemy and homonyms to the language Confusion caused by them, they did not think that if the language was to completely eliminate the polysemy and the homophone, the disorder caused by it would not be known to be many times larger than it is now. Therefore, to make the linguistic symbols simple and economical and easy to grasp and use is the polysemous and homophone an important positive effect on language ". On the other hand, he also pointed out: "Due to the abundance of homophone (including homophones, homophones and morphemes) in Mandarin, it increases the difficulty of identification. This is one of the important reasons why writing is easy to type."