Construction of a Corpus of Character Names and Their Linguistic and Cultural Connotations in Online Games and Online Novels
Abstract
In the midst of the rapid development of digital culture, online games and novels have become crucial means of presenting unique aspects of Chinese culture, attracting an ever - growing number of readers and gaining more and more international recognition; the aim of this study was to build a special corpus for analyzing character names in online gaming and literary settings divided into two main areas: the language features and cultural implications contained in these names; the corpus included complete information about character names, related literary works, types of works, gender of characters, their personality descriptions, and the cultural patterns they represented; through improving the data resources and analytical tools in the field of digital culture, this research tried to push forward academic linguistic research and boost the development of the cultural industry.
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