A Study on the Usage of the Appellation “Tongzhi” in Contemporary Times

Chunyang Wang
Additional contact information
Chunyang Wang: Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, China

Journal of Linguistics and Communication Studies, 2025, vol. 4, issue 3, 21-29

Abstract: The term “tongzhi” has undergone evolving semantic and contextual transformations across historical periods. This study employs a combination of questionnaire surveys, interviews, and corpus analysis to investigate the use of “tongzhi” in both real-life oral communication and virtual online interactions. The research reveals that “tongzhi” has become a niche term in contemporary contexts, demonstrating relatively low vitality in practical speech contexts but slightly higher vitality in virtual communication environments. Furthermore, the study utilizes encoding-decoding theory and discourse framework theory to explain the original meanings behind these contextual differences.

Keywords: epithet; tongzhi; contemporary; usage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.pioneerpublisher.com/JLCS/article/view/1397/1283 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cvg:joulcs:v:4:y:2025:i:3:p:21-29

DOI: 10.56397/JLCS.2025.08.04

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of Linguistics and Communication Studies from Pioneer Academic Publishing Limited
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Editorial Office ().