网络热词“偷感”的语义、语法

The Semantics and Grammar of the Internet Buzzword “Stealing Sensation”

摘要: “偷感”是近年来在社交网络中迅速流行的一种新兴表达，用以形容某些画面、情境或语言带来的微弱、隐秘、略带羞涩的情绪触动。本文以“偷感”为研究对象，从构词形式、语义机制、语法功能与语用特征等多个层面进行系统分析。研究发现，“偷感”虽形式上为“动词 + 名词”结构，实则语义已虚化，趋于主观情绪类名词表达；其语法功能灵活，可用作主语、宾语、定语，且具有一定的形容词化倾向。在语用层面，“偷感”体现了网络用户尤其是Z世代在表达情绪时的策略选择，即通过模糊、轻量、低风险的方式完成情感输出。本文还结合“X感”类网络热词的系统比较，分析其流行机制与语义演化趋势。通过对“偷感”的研究，本文尝试展现网络语言如何在日常交流中创造意义、调节情绪，并最终映射出时代审美与社交心理的变迁。

Abstract: “Stealing sensation” is a newly emerged and rapidly popularized expression on Chinese social media. It is used to describe a subtle, implicit, and slightly bashful emotional response triggered by certain images, situations, or words. This paper takes “stealing sensation” as its research subject and conducts a systematic analysis from the perspectives of word formation, semantic mechanism, grammatical function, and pragmatic features. The study finds that although “stealing sensation” appears to follow a typical “verb + noun” structure, its semantics have become bleached, functioning more as a subjective, emotion-oriented noun. Grammatically, it is highly flexible, functioning as subject, object, or attributive, and it also shows a tendency toward adjectival usage. On the pragmatic level, “stealing sensation” reflects the strategic choices made by internet users—especially Generation Z—in emotional expression. These users tend to favor vague, lightweight, and low-risk ways of conveying feelings. The paper further compares “stealing sensation” with other “X-sensation” type internet buzzwords, analyzing their popularity mechanisms and semantic evolution. By examining “stealing sensation”, this study aims to reveal how internet language generates meaning, mediates emotional expression in daily communication, and ultimately reflects the changing aesthetics and social psychology of our time.