Recently, the phenomenon of the growing use of online buzzword on China’s internet is becoming one of the hot button issue on various communicative occasions. This study uses participant observation to explore the online buzzwords like“打call”,“hold 住”,“we are 伐木累”by mainland Chinese netizens at three core networks in China—Sina Weibo, Tencent Weibo and Wechat. The study suggests that new Chinglish is gaining popularity in China’s homegrown social networks. This online buzzword phenomenon of New Chinglish will be analysed in Translanguaging perspective, a theoretical perspective that thinks it as a process of making meaning, shaping experience, gaining understanding and knowledge through the use of multiple languages(Garcia,2009). The mixing practices in China’s social networking communities reveals that a mixed-code pidginized variety of Chinese English is gaining popularity in the domain of social interaction.
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