Author: Muxamedjanova, Shaxnoza Baxtiyorovna

Annotation: This study analyzes the adaptation of English cyber-terms (selfie, blogger, stream) into Chinese. Due to its isolating structure and ideographic script, Chinese integrates these loanwords through semantic calquing (意译) and verb-object (V-O) syntactic patterns (博主, 网红, 点赞), reconceptualizing them to align with its internal grammatical rules.

Keywords: Internet linguistics, social media discourse, Chinese language, lexical adaptation, semantic calquing, V-O structure, cyber-neologisms, pragmatic contextualization.

Pages in journal: 47 - 48