Open AccessThe Fifth Milestone in the Development of Chinese Language
Author(s) -
Mateja Petrovčič
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
acta linguistica asiatica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 2232-3317
DOI - 10.4312/ala.3.1.61-74
Subject(s) - milestone , cultural revolution , china , chinese language , neologism , new culture movement , linguistics , history , movement (music) , political science , art , law , philosophy , aesthetics , archaeology
Chinese language has changed drastically in the recent century. Papers on the language development mainly stress four big events in the Chinese history that imposed changes in language, i.e. The May Fourth Movement (1919), establishment of the People’s Republic of China (1949), Cultural Revolution (1966), and China’s reform and opening (1978). According to the features of recent neologisms, we suggest that the widening gap between rich and poor should be considered as the fifth milestone for changes in Chinese language