词汇学第三个发展时期.ppt

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1、2.2.3ModernEnglish(1500-uptonow)12ModernEnglishbeganwiththeestablishmentofprintinginEngland.Consideringthechangesinvocabulary,itissubdividedintotwoperiod.EarlyModernEnglish(1500-1700)LateModernEnglish(1700-uptothepresent)WilliamShakespeare(Inthemid16th-early17thcentury)Renaissance(Inthe17thcentu

2、ry)EarlyModernEnglishperiod(1500-1700)BythetimeofShakespeare,thelanguagehadbecomeclearlyrecognisableasModernEnglish.Inallofhiswork–theplays,thesonnetsandthenarrativepoems–Shakespeareused17,677words:Ofthosewords,Shakespeareinventedanincredible1,700ofthem!amazementassassinationbloodycountlesscriti

3、calgloomySincetheRenaissance,manynewwordsweretakenfromLatinandGreekbyscholars.LateModernEnglishThegrowthofcolonization(Inthemid-seventeenthcentury)Advancesinscienceandtechnology(Intheearly20thcentury,particularafterWWⅡ)BecauseoftheBourgeoisRevolutionandIndustrialRevolution,Englandrosetobeagreate

4、reconomicpower.ThegrowthofcolonizationenabledEnglishtoabsorbwordsfromallmajorlanguagesoftheworld.Sincethebeginingof19thcentury,particularafterWorldWarII,withtheadvancementofscienceandtechnology,thousandsandthousandsofnewwordshasbeencreated.Andthesenewwordsaremultipliedinallwalksoflife.Space-stat

5、ionpicturephonedesktopnetspeakyuppiesenvironment-friendlyCharactersofModernEnglishWordendingsweremostlylostwithjustafewexceptions.Englishhasevolvedfromasyntheticlanguage（OldEnglish）tothepresentanalyticlanguage.Thankyou