新的社会现象层出不穷,新的词汇应运而生。概念整合理论作为认知语义学的一种新型理论,对于理解日益增多的新词,尤其是占多数的复合新词,具有重要意义。通过对比英汉复合新词构成方式以及概念整合过程,发现复合新词的理解和推广依赖于激活语义空间的相关性,这对语言研究有强烈的现实意义。 New social phenomena are endless, new vocabulary came into being. As a new theory of cognitive semantics, concept integration theory is of great significance to understand the increasing number of new words, especially the new compound words that make up the majority. By comparing the way of composition of new compound words in English and Chinese and the process of concept integration, it is found that the comprehension and promotion of compound new words depend on the relativity of activation semantic space, which has strong practical significance for language research.