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1、AContrastiveStudyofEnglishandChineseNeologismsinthe21stCenturyIntroductionAccordingtothemodernAmericanlinguistLeonardBloomfield’sLanguage(1933),allthelanguagesarevariableratherthanstablewhilethechangeisfrequentbutnormal.Meanwhile,asthefamousAmericantranslator,
2、EugeneNida(1982)said,“OneofthemostimportantcharactersinEnglishiswhichcouldbeeasilychanged.”It’sabsolutelytruethatlanguageischangingallthetimeandthiskindofchangeshavebeeninfusingvitalityintolanguage.Inthelinguisticsystem,thevariationofphoneticsandgrammarisrelat
3、ivelyslow;theyhavereachedacertaindegreeofstability,whilethevocabularyhasmuchmoreroomforchangingrelyingonitsflexible,multipleandchangeablecharacteristics.AftertheWorldWarII,especiallyinthe1980s,Englishhaschangedalotandthelexicalchangeisthefastest.Somefamousdict
4、ionarieslikeOxfordEnglishDictionaryhaveestimatedthatit’sabout1500to1600newwordsaddedintovocabularyeveryyear.Thisincreasingspeedisamazing.Whatkindofsocialbackgrounddothismewwordsengenderwith?Whatregularpatternsarefollowedbyword-formation?Thethesiswillgiveabrief
5、introductiononthesetwoquestions.1LiteratureReview1.1DemarcationofneologismWhatisneologism?Differentpeoplehavedifferentdefinitions.AccordingtotheOxfordDictionaryofNewWords(1998),neologismsrefertothenewwordsandexpressionsusedinthegivenperiod.LongmanDictionaryofC
6、ontemporaryEnglish(2001)definesitas:Anewwordorexpression,oranewmeaningforanoldword.Inlinguistics,aneologismisaword,termorphrasewhichhasbeenrecentlycreatedto19applytonewconcepts,ortoreshapeoldertermsinnewerlanguageform.Wikipedia:Aneologismisanewlycoinedterm,wor
7、dorphrasethatmaybeintheprocessofenteringcommonuse,buthasnotyetbeenacceptedintomainstreamlanguage.Neologismsareoftendirectlyattributabletoaspecificperson,publication,period,orevent.The"new"ofnewwordsisarelativeconcept.Researchersalwaysresearchitfromtwoaspects:t
8、hetimeaspectandthesemanticaspect.Fromthetimeaspect,thenewwordsholdthenewmeanings.Fromthesemanticaspect,newwordsrefertowordsthatnewlyappearincommunicationandcarrythenewmeaning.Simil
