The Syntactic and Semantic Characteristics of the Lexical Construction Da Lian and Its Popular

The lexical construction Da Lian (literally meaning face-beating) is developed from the verb-object phrase. In recent years, it has become a very popular network phrase. In terms of grammatical function, it has the dual features of verb and adjective; In terms of semantic expression, it mainly means that the previous words and deeds of the parties are denied or falsified by the later facts. Due to people's pursuit of visual rhetoric and defamiliarization rhetoric in online expressions, coupled with the mass reproduction and dissemination of netizens driven by the herd mentality, the brief but not simple Da Lian has become popular in the network rapidly.