Chinese buzzwords -- 2005 release list

Author: Compiled by the News Information Center of Wen Wei Xin Min United Press Group
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Popular language can be divided into spoken and written forms. People's spoken language spreads in various settings every second, making it nearly impossible to collect and scientifically classify and statistically analyze it. Current analysis can only rely on sampling surveys. Radio and television are audio language carriers, but complete text databases for search are still unavailable. Books and journals are standardized language carriers, but due to the lack of full digitalization and their relative separation from social life, they are also difficult to serve as typical samples of social popular language. As a mass communication medium, newspapers are closely connected with all levels of society, disseminating mainstream and diverse news and information. Therefore, the language of newspapers is often characterized by being popular and up-to-date, and generally, social popular language will stubbornly enter the language system of newspapers.
Faced with this characteristic, the Wen Wei Xin Min United Press Group News Information Center, which possesses the longest newspaper database in China, leverages its unique advantage by introducing TRS word frequency statistical analysis software. Comparing the annual development trends of popular language since the founding of the country, the center selected representative newspapers such as those in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, and Chongqing as corpus samples. With the efforts of news information experts, they meticulously screened the most popular language of China in 2004 and first released it in 2005.
The first comprehensive, objective, and detailed annual popular language release in China, China Popular Language 2005 Release List, will cover multiple fields, including politics, international affairs, finance, transportation, workplace, real estate, automobiles, health, publishing, education, tourism, sports, science and technology, internet and communication, and entertainment.