Author(s)

Weifen Tang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Literature of Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China

Corresponding Author

Weifen Tang

ABSTRACT

"Nonsense literature" is a special linguistic phenomenon, applicable to the occasion where the conversations do not contain any useful information. It is good at using rhetorical methods such as repetition, variation in collocation, irony, puns, calque, superposition, conversion, ambiguity, and imitation, which seem to be meaningless but can express the speaker's intention and make the conversation more interesting. It is also suitable for satirizing phenomena that have no substance. It contains strong emotions. It is humorous, ironic, and has a sense of intimacy. The causes are not only influenced by social culture and social psychology, but also by internal linguistic factors.

KEYWORDS

Nonsense Literature; Sociolinguistics; Pragmatics; Causes

CITE THIS PAPER

Weifen Tang, A Sociolinguistics and Social Psychology Analysis of the Network Buzzwords "Nonsense Literature". Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2025) Vol. 8: 62-68. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2025.080509.

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