title: Chinese Lettered Words: Barbarism or Assimilated Borrowing?
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metadata.value: Uryvskaya, Tatiana A.
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metadata.value: Veselova, Luidmila S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-01-24T09:55:31Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-01-24T09:55:31Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.value: Uryvskaya T. A., Veselova L. S. Chinese Lettered Words: Barbarism or Assimilated Borrowing? Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2019, vol. 11, issue 4, pp. 431–446.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2019.402
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16954
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metadata.value: Since the beginning of the period of reforms and openness, which began in the 1980s, intensified
  the process of the natural evolution of oral and written Chinese language. Active international
  contacts inevitably led to changes in the Chinese language itself, it started to appear
  neologisms and foreign borrowings. One of these linguistic phenomena are the lettered words,
  which history in China has been recited for more than 100 years. Their number is constantly
  growing, analyzing the “Dictionary of Modern Chinese Language” (现代汉语词典), it is possible
  to admit the following dynamics: 1996 — 39 words, 2002 — 142 words, 2005 — 182 words,
  2012 — 239 words and so on. Investigating the historiography of the issue, the authors of the
  article concluded that mainly Chinese researchers, for example, Liu Yongquan, Shen Mengyin,
  Li Xiaohua, Yu Fulin, Dong Min, Zou Yuhua, Zhang Yichun and others, were engaged in the
  research of the lettered words. This topic became popular in China at the beginning 2000s.
  Existing studies of Western and Russian scientists are mostly descriptive in nature and do not
  analyze the causes of the appearance and formation of lettered words. This article is devoted
  to the evolution of the definition of lettered words, the reasons for appearance and analysis
  of the characteristics of their use by native speakers in oral and written communication. The
  authors conducted a survey in Chinese in electronic form for native Chinese speakers living
  both in the territory of the PRC and abroad, dedicated to lettered words and their use. The
  survey results showed an interesting fact: 30,4 % of respondents deny the use of lettered words
  in oral speech, but when choosing between a lettered word and the Chinese equivalent, the
  number of those who chose the Chinese equivalent was less than 30 %. The survey data helped
  to find out the main motives for the use of alphabetic words by modern Chinese speakers: saving
  time, desire to give their speech a more professional tone, foreign language practice, the
  lack of a suitable equivalent in Chinese, a desire to follow fashion trends, the use of alphabetic
  words as euphemisms.
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metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 11; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: China
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Chinese language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: lettered words
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: barbarism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Putonghua
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: barbarism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: borrowings
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: abbreviations
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Chinese Lettered Words: Barbarism or Assimilated Borrowing?
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metadata.value: Article
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