| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第4-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6页 |
| INTRODUCTION | 第9-11页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅰ GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO NETWORK CHINESE | 第11-24页 |
| 1.1 NETWORK CHINESE: A VARIETY | 第11-16页 |
| 1.1.1 The definition of Network Chinese | 第11-12页 |
| 1.1.2.Internet as a virtual community | 第12-13页 |
| 1.1.3 The net users in the virtual speech community | 第13-15页 |
| 1.1.4 Network Chinese: a variety of mandarin | 第15-16页 |
| 1.2.THE POSSIBILITY OF THE APPEARANCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF NETWORK CHINESE | 第16-19页 |
| 1.2.1 Technical background | 第16-17页 |
| 1.2.1.1 The popularization of personal computers | 第16页 |
| 1.2.1.2 The development of Internet technology | 第16-17页 |
| 1.2.1.3 The properties of the Internet | 第17页 |
| 1.2.2 The social and cultural background | 第17-18页 |
| 1.2.3 Net users'psychological background | 第18-19页 |
| 1.3. INTRODUCTION TO INTERNET-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION | 第19-24页 |
| 1.3.1 Different modes of computer-mediated communication and their working way | 第19-22页 |
| 1.3.2 Brief introduction to how people communicate on line | 第22-24页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅱ LITERATURE REVIEW OF INTERNET LANGUAGE STUDY | 第24-27页 |
| 2.1 PRE-STUDY OF CMC | 第24-26页 |
| 2.1.1 The study of MUDs and MOOs | 第25页 |
| 2.1.2 The study of IRC | 第25-26页 |
| 2.2 THE DOMESTIC STUDY OF NETWORK CHINESE | 第26-27页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅲ THE OBSERVATION OF NETWORK CHINESE | 第27-40页 |
| 3.1 OBSERVATION ON PHONETIC LEVEL | 第28-30页 |
| 3.1.1 Sound repetitions | 第28页 |
| 3.1.2 The frequent appearance of onomatopoeias | 第28-29页 |
| 3.1.3 The widely usage of homophones | 第29-30页 |
| 3.2. OBSERVATION ON LEXICAL LEVEL | 第30-34页 |
| 3.2.1 The frequent appearance of technological terms | 第30-31页 |
| 3.2.2 The frequent use of acronyms and abbreviations | 第31-32页 |
| 3.2.3 Borrowing from other language | 第32页 |
| 3.2.4.The mass of dialect | 第32-33页 |
| 3.2.5 The use of coinage | 第33-34页 |
| 3.3. THE OBSERVATION ON SYNTACTIC LEVEL | 第34-36页 |
| 3.3.1 The violation of syntactic rules of standard Chinese | 第34页 |
| 3.3.2 The over-simplification phenomena | 第34-35页 |
| 3.3.3 The common use of exclamation and interrogative sentences | 第35-36页 |
| 3.4. THE OBSERVATION ON SEMANTIC LEVEL | 第36-37页 |
| 3.4.1 The meaning of words changed | 第36页 |
| 3.4.2 Synonymy, antonymy and hyponymy adopted to make net users differ in style | 第36-37页 |
| 3.5. THE OBSERVATION ON DISCOURSE LEVEL | 第37-40页 |
| 3.5.1 Cohesion in Network Chinese | 第37-40页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅳ ANALYSIS OF FEATURES OF NETWORK CHINESE | 第40-56页 |
| 4.1 THE INTERMIXING OF SPEECH AND WRITING | 第40-41页 |
| 4.2 PARALINGUISTIC FEATURES | 第41-42页 |
| 4.3 STYLE FEATURES | 第42-49页 |
| 4.3.1 Personality and Peculiarity | 第42-43页 |
| 4.3.2. Informality | 第43-44页 |
| 4.3.3 Simplicity | 第44-49页 |
| 4.3.3.1 The definition of simplicity | 第44-45页 |
| 4.3.3.2 The reason for the appearance of simplicity in Network Chinese | 第45-47页 |
| 4.3.3.2.1 Speed in the realization of the instant message exchange | 第45-46页 |
| 4.3.3.2.2 Time-economy principle in the Network Chinese | 第46页 |
| 4.3.3.2.3 The purpose of simplicity: easy-to-type model | 第46-47页 |
| 4.3.3.3 The way to simplify the expressions | 第47-48页 |
| 4.3.3.4 Exception examples | 第48-49页 |
| 4.5. CREATIVITY | 第49-50页 |
| 4.5.1 The reason for creativity | 第49页 |
| 4.5.2 Different creative ways | 第49-50页 |
| 4.6. ANALYSIS OF THE FEATURES OF NETWORK CHINESE | 第50-56页 |
| 4.6.1 The similar background of net users | 第50-51页 |
| 4.6.2 Explanation the reason why Network Chinese can carry out communicative functions | 第51-56页 |
| 4.6.2.1 Explanation of Network Chinese from its arbitrary feature | 第51-54页 |
| 4.6.2.2 Explanation of the Network Chinese from its iconic feature | 第54-55页 |
| 4.6.2.3 Explanation of the discourse of Network Chinese | 第55-56页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅴ THE ATTITUDES TOWARDS NETWORK CHINESE | 第56-60页 |
| 5.1 THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNET ON LANGUAGE | 第57-58页 |
| 5.2 THE SOCIAL ATTITUDE TOWARDS NETWORK CHINESE | 第58-59页 |
| 5.2.1 The positive attitude | 第58-59页 |
| 5.2.2 The negative attitude | 第59页 |
| 5.3 THE EFFECT OF NETWORK CHINESE ON MANDARIN? | 第59-60页 |
| CONCLUSION | 第60-61页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第61-66页 |
