A Review of the Research on the Development and Evolution of Chinese Language in the New Era

Abstract

The development of language is influenced by various factors including internal ones and external ones due to its social nature. With the in-depth development of globalization, the development of languages in the new era shows many new features, among which the most obvious is that they are more open and interactive. At the same time, it has also attracted much attention of the academic circles, and the theories of language development are abundant. This paper first defines language variation, and mainly combs the relevant achievements of language development research in contemporary from three aspects: language contact, grammaticalization and memetics.