英文摘要 |
This study adopts text-mining techniques to investigate Chinese mainlanders' attitudes toward taiwanqiang, a mediatized variety of Taiwanese Mandarin. A corpus was constructed with 13,062 comments scraped from a Chinese online forum about taiwanqiang and Taiwanese TV shows. Finally, key qualifiers (e.g. babyish, cute, and pretentious) were visualized as a 'lexical network' with links between words or phrases to discover thematic or conceptual categories semiotically linked to taiwanqiang. Through the discussion of media and language attitudes, this study debunks the myth of 'standard language' in Chinese language teaching. |