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Received:06/08/2024
Revised:18/02/2025
Accepted:27/02/2025
DOI:10.59266/houjs.2025.535
EVWDFW:Theonlinelanguageofyoungpeopleonsocialplatformsisbeingstudiedby
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trendspeechpatterns(newtrends)thatyoungpeopleoftenuseonFacebookandsurveyed
thecharacteristicsoftheorigin,linguisticcharacteristics,andsocio-culturalcharacteristics
ofthisnewlanguage.Theauthorusedqualitativeandquantitativeresearchmethodsfrom
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commentsonFacebook.Theresearchresultsshowthreebasicsourcesofhottrendlanguage:
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usedinthreebasicforms:insertingEnglishintoVietnamesespeech,usingslang,andusing
newstructures.ThisisabreakthroughintheVietnameselanguage,contributingsignicantly
toenrichingtheVietnameselanguageandmakingthelanguageofyoungpeopleunique.
.HRV:onlinelanguage,theyoung,Facebook,hottrend,socialmedia.
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Itisundeniablethatlanguageisan
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in human life today. Along with the
developmentofsocio-economiclifewith
manydiversechanges,languagealsohas
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everyoneaswellaskeepupwiththetrends
ofthetimes.Therefore,whenconducting
language research, we need to clearly
understand the development trends of
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fromtheretogivethebestorientationsfor
youngpeople.
Nowadays, we can easily come
across sayings, such as “ dề”, “Ét ô
ét”, “Vãi”, “500 anh em”, “ĂQ QóL à
Oơ”, … in conversations, from real life
to entertainment applications, mostly on
the social platform Facebook, because
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gather. This is considered a popular
languagephenomenonintoday’ssociety,
especially when used by young people.
Itisalsoknownasahot-trendlanguage.
Theauthorwilldelveintosomehot-trend
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language type. Hopefully, this topic can
helpeveryonehaveanobjectiveviewof
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directions.
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InVietnam,therehavebeenmuch
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theory to practice. A typical example
is “Sociolinguistics” by Nguyen Van
Khang, reprinted in 2012, which gave
a general theory on language issues.
Many works study language variations
under the inuence of society, such
as “Linguistic Attitudes Towards the
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theInternetToday”(2014)byTrinhCam
Lan or “Some Social Dialect Issues”
by Tran Thi Ngoc Lang in 2005... All
of these workshave studied thediverse
linguistic changes of Vietnamese, and
it is aected by factors such as gender,
socialgroup,age,andeducationlevel...
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deviantyouthlanguage,therehavebeen
researched works such as “Strange and
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oftoday’syouth”,“Thecurrentsituation
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today’s youth from the perspective of
sociolinguistics”bythegroupofauthors
NguyenVanHiep.Theaboveworkshave
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inparticular,norhavetheyupdatednew
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the suggestions of the above research
works, the author will study the KRW
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oforiginal,linguistic,andsocio-cultural
characteristics.
2.2.Socialdialectconcept
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youngpeopleonFacebook,whichislike
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Vietnameselanguagesituation.
According to F. de Saussure, there
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of geography). Similarly, there are as
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groups.
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(2012), “Social dialects are linguistic
products of social groups. Social
characteristics such as gender, age,
occupation, origin, cultural level, etc.
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characteristics in use. Social dialectsare
language variations according to social
groupsinuse”.
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Whenitcomestolanguagevariation,
standard or non-standard variation, we
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the inuence of society, and they are in
the social dialect. Regarding language
variation, Nguyen Van Khang believes
it is “the forms of existence and change
of language, the manifestations of
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characteristics”. This is the research’s
object of sociolinguistics. The hot-trend
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variation with many forms of existence
andspecicchanges,completelydierent
fromthestandardlanguage.
Fromhere,theconceptofstandard
and non-standard variations has been
mentioned. According to Hoang Phe,
standard language “is a model in
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language, recognized by the majority of
people, especially those with prestige
and inuence. The opposite of standard
isdeviation, non-standard means wrong.
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with many people making mistakes, it
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itsexistence”.DoHuuChau’sopinionis
somewhatmoreexiblewhenhesaidthat
“StandardVietnamesehasrules,butthey
arenotimmutablebutalwaysmovingand
changing”.
In this research paper, the author
willrelyontheaboveconcepttoexamine
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withamoreexibleandopenperspective
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today’syoungpeople.
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directly associated with a specic social
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group. There are many dierent views
on slang. According to Nguyen Thien
Giap, “Slang is aword that is usedin a
socially limited way, that is, words that
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only by a certain social class... Slang is
a parasitic phenomenon in Vietnamese,
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environment, circumstances, and the
socialclassesthatproduceit”.According
toDoHuuChau,slang“isatypeofjargon,
additionalnames,overlappingtheocial
names, produced by social groups with
thepurposeofdistinguishingthemselves
fromothersocialgroups”.Itcanbeseen
thatslangisofinteresttomanylinguists.
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thehot-trendlanguageoftoday’syouth.
2.5.SocialPlatformFacebookand
onlinelanguage“hottrend”
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usedbymostVietnamesepeople,especially
youngpeopletoday.Itwasfoundedin2004
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domestic and foreign communities.
Facebookhasremarkablefeatures.Oneof
themisitsstrongconnectionandsharing.
It breaks down geographical, linguistic,
gender, and national barriers. Anyone
canuseFacebookaslongastheyhavea
smartphone. Emotions, statuses, or any
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everyone.
Hottrendlanguageisaphrasethat
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today.The trend hereis understood asa
trend,achangeinaproblemorevent.This
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eldtoupdatecustomerpreferencesand
thereby develop eective strategies. The
word“Hottrend”doesnotonlystopatthe
marketing eld but is also used in other
elds, spreading to the community of
youngpeople’slives.Hottrendlanguage
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of young people. With unique language
creation styles, young people have
received and used them widely. This
language trend was very popular at one
timeandquicklydisappearedovertime.
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origin, linguistic, and socio-cultural
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Facebook.
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-Whatare theoriginsofhot-trend
languages?
-Whatarethelinguisticandsocio-
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languages?
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-Quantitative method: collect and
FRPSLO DD RQ RUV DQ KR UQ
sentences in chats, posts, andcomments
onFacebook.
-Qualitative method: analyze
linguistic,cultural,andsocialcharacteristics
ofhottrendsentencesonFacebook.
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ODQJDJV RQ DFERRN DFFRQV DQ
grouppagesofyoungpeople,theauthor
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languages: movies, music videos or
clips,andsocialmediaposts.Thehighest
SURSRULRQ LV RQ FOLSV DQ VRFLDO PLD
posts. This is also quite understandable,
giventhatsocialnetworksaredeveloping
rapidly today, and young peopleare the
oneswhousethemthemost.
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We can see that recent movies
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thatmakeviewersfeelinterested,curious,
and quite satised. From here, that
ODQJDJKDVEQVERQJSRSO
DQKDVEFRPDKRUQODQJDJKD
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commonexpressions.
Thesaying“Youthislikeacupof
tea”(Thanhxunnhưmtlytr)RULJLQD
fromthemovie“ComeHome,MyChild”
(Vềnhàđicon),whichhasbeenpopular
in recent years. This phrase has become
D KRUQ ODQJDJ DQ VSUD LO
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thattime.Therearecountlessparodiesof
thishottrendsayingsuchas“Youthislike
acupoftea,afterasip,allyouryouthis
gone” (Thanh xun như mt ly tr, húp
xongmtphthếtbthanhxun),“Youth
islikeacupoftea,aftergoingtoafew
places, all your youth is gone” (KDQK
xunnhư mtly tr,đi dăm ba chỗ hết
x thanh xun), “Youth is like a cup of
tea,drinkingcoeeanddrinkingallyour
youth”(Thanhxunnhưmtlytr,cph
cphohếtđờithanhxun)…
The classiclineinthemovie“The
Sky Ahead” (Phía trước là bầu trời)
like:“Idon’thavealover,I’mafraidof
beingsingle”.Thelinehasbecomeahot
trend on social networks, especially on
Facebooktoday.Withitscuteness,humor,
and sarcasm, the line has stirred up the
youth.InadialogueonFacebook:
A: Go to sleep, otherwise your
ERULQLOORUU
B: I don’t have a boyfriend, I’m
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It can be seen that the line in the
movie“TheSkyAhead”cannotbeoutof
fashioneventhoughithasbeenonairfor
nearly20yearsbecauseofthehottrend.
Countless Facebook accounts of young
people have used this hot trend, talking
inafun,humorouswayandteasingeach
otherinafunway.
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Recent music videos always
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innovations that make young people
excited. Recently, on Facebook, many
sentences have been like “When you
goall out, when youcome back, allthe
sadness”(Lúcđihếtmnh,lúcvềhếtbuồn)
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goingout.Theoriginofthissentenceisin
BichPhuong’srecentlypopularsong“Đi
đuđưađi”.Thesentencehasbecomeahot
UQKQDFERRNSDJVSRVSLFUV
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family.Fromhere,therehavebeenmany
parodies of this famous sentence, such
as“Whenyougoalloutwhenyoucome
back,allthesadnessisgone”(Lúcđihết
mnh,lúcvềhếttiền).
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for many young people, and hot-trend
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and widespread. In recent years, social
networkingsiteshaveseenmanyclipsand
articleswithuniqueandnewwords,which
havebecomealinguisticphenomenonthat
youngpeoplecollectandusewidely.For
example,“Hongbeoi”(ownerofTikTok
channel@pesua.nlqda.),“Ode”(TikTok
video), “6 days 6 nights challenge” and
“get go” (TikTok); “Ét Ô Ét” (TikTok
channel Ba Toan Vlogs). The phrase
“mlemmlem”(Originatedfromavideoof
acatcontinuouslylickingwateronMgur
andRedditin2015);“xucana”;“Nguoi
choihe”;“Ờmâyzinggutchop”.Wesee
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language among young people. Social
QRUNV DU KU KLV ODQJDJ UQ
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popularized.
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hottrendsentencepattern
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fordatainarticles,commentsofaccounts,
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today,Irealizedthatthehottrendlanguage
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LQKROORLQJKUEDVLFRUPV
-InterspersingEnglishintoVietnamese
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4.2.1. Interspersing English into
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InVietnamese,therearetwoforms
of English. One is written according to
standardEnglish,andtheotheriswritten
according to Vietnamese pronunciation.
Through a survey, it is found that the
QPEU R VDQDU (QJOLVK RUV LV
K PDRUL FRPSDU R K VLPOD
words.Wecanseemanystandardforms
R(QJOLVKRUVLQVULQR9LQDPV
V E RQJ SRSO R EFRP D KR
trend language. For example, on some
Facebook personal pages, some people
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-Mooddrop(Tụtmood):Thisisa
wordthatshowslossofinterest,boredom,
andlackofmotivationtodoanything.It
isusedquitealotbyyoungpeopletoday.
-“Thisshopischill”(Quánnàychill
phết):ChillhereisanEnglishwordthat
meansshivering.However,youngpeople
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andrefresh.
-“Checkvar”:Thisisawordoften
usedinfootball,atooltosupportreferees
in making accurate decisions. However,
whenitcomestoyoungpeople,thisword
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otherpeople’sinformation.Itisusedwith
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people.
Inthesecondform,whenimitating
Vietnamesesounds,someEnglishwords
have become a hot trend among young
people,suchas:
-Ờmâyzinggútchóp:Thevowel
isAmazing!Goodjobmeansgreat,very
well done. It is widely used by young
peopleasahumorouscompliment.
-Étôét:ItsoriginalformisSOS.It
meanssavinginanemergency.However,