An Analysis of Chinese Internet Buzzwords from the Perspective of Sociolinguistics

With the rapid development of the Internet, Internet buzzwords have gradually entered sociolinguistics and become an important aspect of sociolinguistic research. Based on the criteria of timeliness and popularity, this paper obtains many novel 2022 Internet buzzword corpus through various online social platforms and friends around them, and finally selects two types of Internet buzzwords as research objects: “English homophonic mosaic”, “word family analogy” through sorting and classification of the obtained corpus, and attempts to analyze their specific manifestations and causes from the perspective of sociolinguistics.