Perspective Of Memetics Research Articles

Enhancing English Writing Skills Through Internet-Plus Tools in the Perspective of Memetics

This investigation delves into incorporating a hybridized memetic strategy within the framework of English composition pedagogy, leveraging Internet Plus resources. The study aims to provide an in-depth analysis of how this method influences students’ writing competence, their perceptions of writing, and their enthusiasm for English acquisition. Employing an explanatory research design that combines qualitative and quantitative methods, the study collects data through surveys, interviews, and observations of students’ writing performance before and after the intervention. Findings demonstrate a beneficial impact of integrating the memetic approach alongside Internet Plus tools on the writing aptitude of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Students reported increased engagement with writing, attributing it to the use of Internet plus tools. They also expressed that the memetic approach facilitated a deeper understanding of cultural and social contexts in writing. Furthermore, the findings highlight a significant improvement in students’ writing skills following the intervention. This study provides significant insights into the practical implementation of the memetic approach within English writing education, highlighting the beneficial contribution of Internet Plus tools in enriching students' learning journeys.

An Exploration of the Grammaticalization of Internet Tribal Word “X Xue” from the Perspective of Memetics

An Exploration of the Grammaticalization of Internet Tribal Word “X Xue” from the Perspective of Memetics

Research on Children's Educational Toy Design of Yueqing Fine Lines Engraved Paper in the Memetics Perspective

Exploring the application and integration of Yueqing Fine Lines Engraved Paper culture with the design of children's educational toys in the perspective of memetics, aiming to address the survival crisis faced by Yueqing Fine Lines Engraved Paper and achieve the inheritance and innovative development of culture. Based on memetics, cultural memes of Yueqing Fine Lines Engraved Paper are extracted, classified, deconstructed, and recombined for optimization. A design model for Yueqing Fine Lines Engraved Paper cultural products based on memetics is constructed, and the effectiveness of memetics in cultural product design is discussed through practical cases. This enriches the application of memetics and provides guiding insights for region-based cultural product design, promoting the inheritance and innovation of culture.

Pragmatic Study of the Internet Buzzword "Huaxizi" From the Perspective of Memetics

Pragmatic Study of the Internet Buzzword "Huaxizi" From the Perspective of Memetics

Analysis of Quasi-affixes in Cyber Language from the Perspective of Memetics

In information age, people have gradually integrated into the new era of network culture. In the process of Chinese communication online, quasi-affixes, a new type of affix, are being generated correspondingly. They enrich netizens’ life and boost the prosperity of Internet’s culture. Created by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, Memetics is a new theory to explain the law of cultural evolution based on Darwin's theory of evolution. Memes are the basic units of cultural information inheritance. The thesis intends to analyze the prevalent reasons of quasi-affixes in cyber language as well as their functions in daily communication and cultural transmission from the perspective of memetics by typical examples. To achieve it, the analysis will develop from three aspects, the form and meaning advantages of quasi-affixes and their roles playing in different scenarios. Finally, it will draw a conclusion.

The Meme’s-Eye View of Strategic Communication: A Case Study of Social Movements from a Memetic Perspective

ABSTRACT The article argues that a memetic approach, or meme’s-eye view, could help bring together the strategic management view and the CCO-school. ‘Memes’ are understood as a second-order concept, i.e., as a reference to ‘memory traces’ in people’s minds and anchor-point of joint or collective intentionality. This view, it is argued, permits the conceptualization of communication as a resource. To illustrate, two cases are analyzed: 1) the Montagsdemos in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) with its core meme Wir sind das Volk (We are the people); 2) the so-called ‘Satanic Panic’ and the QAnon movement with its ‘Save the Children'-meme’. The analysis illustrates how memes endure and resurface in new and different environments. In conclusion, the article proposes that the shift to memetic population dynamics allows strategic communication-researchers to reformulate often unanswerable questions (“What does the strategic actor want?”) into more operationalizable ones (“What memes are launched? How are they constructed?”).

An Analysis of Sexist Words in English and Chinese from the Perspective of Memetics

With the development of economic globalization, the exchanges between countries are getting more frequent than before. Language plays an important role as a tool for communication among countries. English is known as linguine franca, while Chinese is one of the most populous languages in the world. Both languages are hugely influential aroud the world. Nowadays, women's status has improved. However, whether on the Internet or in social life, sexist words still emerge endlessly. Sexist words exist in both English and Chinese. Based on memetics, this paper discusses the generation, spread, rise and extinction mechanism of sexist words in English and Chinese from three perspectives: sexist word formation meme, sexist meaning meme and sexist word order meme. The formation and spread of sexist word memes in English and Chinese have something in common, but they also bear their own characteristics due to the differences of political, economic and cultural environment. Sexist ideas and sexist word memes interact with each other. The formation of sexist word memes is influenced by sexist ideas, while sexist word memes will promote the formation of sexist ideas. Based on the formation and transmission mechanism of memes, the paper proposes three elimination strategies of sexist word memes: establishing gender equality awareness, blocking the transmission process of sexist memes and strengthening gender equality education. This paper aims to reveal the mechanism of the generation, spread, rise and extinction of sexist word memes in English and Chinese, so as to remove the obstacles for friendly exchanges between China and other countries, and promote equal communication between men and women.

A Study of the English Version The Story of the Stone from the Perspective of Memetics

A Study of the English Version The Story of the Stone from the Perspective of Memetics

Study on English Public Speaking Teaching from the Perspective of Memetics

This paper, based on Memetics, discusses language imitation, communication and variation integrated in English public speaking teaching. Guided by Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, students complete easier cognitive learning such as memorizing and understanding the language memes which would be further applied, analyzed, evaluated, and created in class for new speech cases with the help of teachers. This teaching strategy gives full play to a more communicative use of English in making public speeches and provides evidence for innovative teaching reforms.

A Study on the Cyber Counterattack Language of Tangshan Violence From the Perspective of Memetics

A Study on the Cyber Counterattack Language of Tangshan Violence From the Perspective of Memetics

Research on the Dissemination of the Internet Buzzword “破防” From the Perspective of Memetics

Research on the Dissemination of the Internet Buzzword “破防” From the Perspective of Memetics

Memetics: A Practical Translation Theory in Business Environment-Take Safeguard as an Example

Brand name translation plays an important role in foreign trade. From the perspective of memetics, this paper analyzes the sales and popularity of Luxury and Safeguard in China, discusses the persistence of Memetics and the cross-language transmission of brand memes, which is helpful for translators to translate authentic brand names, so as to speed up the reproduction and dissemination of brand names, increase the probability of becoming a strong meme, and enhance the international popularity of brands.

A Study of American Slangs in Billy Bathgate Translated by Yang Renjing from the Perspective of Translation Memetics

The analysis and comparison to the translation of American slangs in Yang Renjing’s translation of Billy Bathgate through the notions of translation memetics can deeply indicate the cultural nature behind American slangs, and further promote the exchange and communication of Chinese and foreign cultures with the conversion results of slang translation. By integrating the strategies adopted by the translator in the translation of slang memes to analyze the motivations and rules behind the transmission of American slangs, the discussions to the modes of spreading and developing slang memes in translation can be advanced. Also, the fact of cultural mutation and transformation in translation can be proved from the perspective of memetics to demonstrate the inevitability of the variation of American slang in communication due to the limitation of cultural differences.

A Study on the Teaching of Practical English Writing in Senior High School From the Perspective of Memetics

Nowadays, foreign researches on memes mainly focus on linguistics and pragmatics, while China has gradually begun to explore the relationship between memetics and teaching, but it has not yet attracted too much attention. Therefore, this study will explore the internal relationship between memetics and English writing teaching. The main content of memetics is memes, which refers to “something to be imitated” (Dawkins, 1976). Its main feature is imitation and replication. In foreign language teaching and learning, imitation and reproduction are inevitable. In other words, language learning is to learn from imitation and to accumulate materials in order to gradually reach the level of innovation. The study was carried out in senior high school in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. There are 106 students in it regraded as participants in this experiment sustaining four months. The research is designed to solve these two issues: (1) Can English practical writing based on memetics improve senior high school students’ writing performance? If so, to what extent? (2) Have students’ attitudes towards English writing changed before and after the memetics based on English practical writing experiment? What are the specific aspects? On the basis of the collected data in this study, SPSS 22.0 will be applied to analyze the results of tests and questionnaires. In line with the results, some conclusions are reached as it follows: (1) By the analysis of the results of tests, English practical writing teaching with memetics can obviously improve students’ writing proficiency. (2) According to the answers of interview and the results of questionnaires, the conclusion can be drawn that after the four-month experiment, students’ attitudes changes a lot.

Analysis of Fossilization Process of the Second Language Vocabulary from the Perspective of Memetics

Vocabulary acquisition is important in the second language acquisition research. Research shows that the fossilization of the second language exists generally. From the perspective of Memetics and according to the reason and process from different stages of the second language acquisition, this study helps learners to know vocabulary petrochemical causes and process more clearly, which can achieve better preventive action and improve learners’ learning efficiency.

Maths in the time of social media: conceptualizing the Internet phenomenon of mathematical memes

ABSTRACT Mathematical memes are an Internet phenomenon with an epistemic potential noteworthy for the teaching and learning of mathematics. The aim of this paper is to conceptualize this phenomenon on an empirical base, elucidating its educational potential. To pursue this goal, a two-year ethnographic research study has been conducted in a selection of social media communities that exchange mathematical memes. In the paper, a twofold theoretical lens is used to investigate the phenomenon from a memetic perspective focused on the general characteristics of Internet memes, and from a cultural perspective considering the Web 2.0 environment. Analysis tools derived from the memetic and cultural theoretical background are applied to an instrumental case study, to reconstruct how mathematical memes activate the interaction among members of an online community. The investigation elicits key characteristics of the phenomenon, provides grounds to conceptualize mathematical memes as hybrid representations of mathematical statements, and sheds light on the traits of the epistemic culture they establish in the community.

A memetic exploration of court interpretation

Abstract Court interpretation subsumes transferring information from one source culture to the target culture, and the transfer of information, from the perspective of memetics, leads to the conceptualization of a common and significant framework in legal discourse, especially in the translation, interpretation and communication fields. This consideration gives the theoretical assumption for court interpretation, that is, court interpretation is a bilingual practice of meaning construction beyond meaning replication, because meaning units could be viewed as self-replicating complex ideas. Since the purpose of court interpretation is to find equivalence and the functions of court interpreters are being fair, semiotic equivalence can provide an even more useful tool for interpreters by offering greater insight into the mechanism of meaning and its encoding with the help of linguistic symbols. Meanwhile, court interpreters act as language and culture mediators to convey the correct contents of utterances and/or speech acts among their communities. Active and collaborative works are then necessary to mediate, decide, and analyze under real constraints with cultural challenges to elaborate viable interpretation solutions in laws.

A Study of Internet Chinglish under the Framework of Memetics and Its Development

Internet Chinglish, a product of the integration of the Internet and Chinese culture, is the most popular form of Chinglish in present-day China. The present paper has conducted a detailed study of Internet Chinglish, distinguishing it from China English, exploring the characteristics and the causes of its popularity from the perspective of Memetics, and making a prediction that Chinglish, if satisfying certain conditions, may transform to China English.

模因论视域下的河西五市人文景观公示语英译策略研究

模因论视域下的河西五市人文景观公示语英译策略研究

Analysis of Fans’ Cyberwords From the Perspective of Memetics

With the development of internet, network is more and more important in people’s daily life. Among the huge network user groups, fans as a unique group gradually come to people’s vision, meanwhile cyberwords used by fans group also becomes one of the research topics of scholars. As far as memetics is concerned, language itself is a kind of meme, and memes also reside in language. From this point, linguistic memes are widely spread among fans group. In this paper, five types of fans’ cyberwords and their functions are analyzed from the perspective of memetics, and specific phenomena which influence the generation and spread of linguistic memes are also explored.