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摘要: Languages, as a part of culture, develop with the society. Vocabularies are the most active factors in all languages. The change of vocabulary includes the addition and deletion of vocabularies or the transformation of the meaning of the words. Social development includes the development of economy, politics, military, technology, culture, art and so on. All of these provide the conditions for the production of neologism. From the perspective of linguistics, the paper tries to explore the linguistic motivations for the production of neologism combining with concrete examples.
關键词:neologisms production motivations significance
Foreword
Neologisms are newly coined words that are given new meaning to fit new situations because of social, cultural, scientific and technical changes in human society.In a narrow sense neologisms refer to newly coined words. In a broad sense neologisms include the new meanings produced on the basis of the original meanings. The new words mentioned in the paper refer to newly coined words or words borrowed from other languages or the original words with new meanings and new usage.
1. The causes for the production of newly coined words
With the development of society and the appearance of new things and new conditions, some neologisms or new concepts that are used to refer to them come forth accordingly such as“粉丝”(fans);“穿越剧”(time-travel TV drama); “微博” (microblog); “海归” (overseas returnee) and so on。
The changes of value and life style and the production of new ideas are also the causes for the production of new expressions such as single noble, Dink, hen-pecker, grey income (extra income) and so on.Nowadays with the rapid development of science and technology, a lot of newly coined words that are closely related to technology come into being, such as CT, ultrasound, clone, e-mail and so on.
Network, as a modern technology, has been rapidly developed and greatly applied into people’s daily life and daily work, therefore, many new terms related to network spring up accordingly, such as internet bar, netizen, hacker, net surfing and so on.
The neologisms whether they are produced from economic and social life or from the fields of science and technology are attributed to the social development which is the basic condition and great power for the production of neologisms, which is the inevitable result of social development. With the advance and development of society, it has been a law for the development of languages. These neologisms have been mostly and widely applied and been an integral part of national language.
關键词:neologisms production motivations significance
Foreword
Neologisms are newly coined words that are given new meaning to fit new situations because of social, cultural, scientific and technical changes in human society.In a narrow sense neologisms refer to newly coined words. In a broad sense neologisms include the new meanings produced on the basis of the original meanings. The new words mentioned in the paper refer to newly coined words or words borrowed from other languages or the original words with new meanings and new usage.
1. The causes for the production of newly coined words
With the development of society and the appearance of new things and new conditions, some neologisms or new concepts that are used to refer to them come forth accordingly such as“粉丝”(fans);“穿越剧”(time-travel TV drama); “微博” (microblog); “海归” (overseas returnee) and so on。
The changes of value and life style and the production of new ideas are also the causes for the production of new expressions such as single noble, Dink, hen-pecker, grey income (extra income) and so on.Nowadays with the rapid development of science and technology, a lot of newly coined words that are closely related to technology come into being, such as CT, ultrasound, clone, e-mail and so on.
Network, as a modern technology, has been rapidly developed and greatly applied into people’s daily life and daily work, therefore, many new terms related to network spring up accordingly, such as internet bar, netizen, hacker, net surfing and so on.
The neologisms whether they are produced from economic and social life or from the fields of science and technology are attributed to the social development which is the basic condition and great power for the production of neologisms, which is the inevitable result of social development. With the advance and development of society, it has been a law for the development of languages. These neologisms have been mostly and widely applied and been an integral part of national language.