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1、AnAnalysisoftheLatestEnglishNeologisms现代英语新词分析AbstractWiththedevelopmentofsocietyandthetechnicaladvancement,thereareagreatmanyneologismsemergingintheEnglishvocabulary.Theyarenotcreatedfreely;theyfollowsomerules,theprocessesofword–formation.Withouttheintrodu
2、ctionandconclusion,thisarticleincludesthreesections,whichformthemainbodyofthisessay.TheydefinethesourcesofEnglishneologisms,word-formationprocesses,andthegeneraltrendofEnglishneologismsrespectively. ThepurposesofthisarticlearetostudythepracticalvalueofEngli
3、shneologisms,stimulateEnglishlearners’interest,andhelpthemenlargetheirvocabularyeffectively.Besides,itwillhelpthemovercometheobstacleintheirEnglishlearningandreadingcausedbytheneologisms. KeyWords:Neologisms,sources,word-formationprocesses,trend摘 要随着现代社会的飞速
4、发展和科学技术的日新月异，现代英语词汇中涌现出了大量的新词。这些新词并非随意构成，而是遵循了一定的构词规则，即英语词汇构词法。除去引言和结论，文章共分三个部分。它们构成了文章的主体，主体部分分别就英语新词的来源，构词方法，和英语词汇的发展趋势作了详细的研究和论述。文章旨在探索新词的实用价值，激发英语学习者学习英语的兴趣，帮助他们有效地扩大词汇。克服在英语学习和英语阅读中的因新词的出现导致的学习障碍。关键词:新词，来源，构词法，趋势 IntroductionAsafamousAmericantranslatio
5、ntheoristEugeneA.Nada(1982)said,“OneofthemostimportantcharactersinEnglishiswhichcouldbeeasilychanged.”Exactly,withthedevelopmentofsocietyandtechnologyadvancement,Englishneologismsarecreatedoneafteranother.AccordingtothecountingoftheBarnhartDictionaryCompani
6、onMagazine,1500-1600newwordsareenteringtheircomputerdatabaseeachyear.ModernEnglishhasavocabularyof500,000words,and2/3ofthemarecreatedduringthelatest300years（WangRongpei,1997）WhenwereadtheEnglishnewspapers(suchasNetizen)andmagazines(suchasYetties)orlistentot
7、heEnglishbroadcast(Watergate),howfrequentlyweencounterneologismsandwehavetoacknowledgethefactthatwecannotalwaysdependonthedictionaries,soitisveryimportantforEnglishlearnerstostudyneologisms.AccordingtotheOxfordDictionaryofNewWords(ElizabethKnowleswithJuliaE
8、lliott,1998),neologismsrefertothenewwordsandexpressionsusedinthegivenperiod.IntheEnglishlinguisticsystem,thechangingofphoneticsandgrammarisrelativelyslow;bothofthempossessthestabilitytoacertaindegree.B
