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1、毕业论文(设计)TheTranslationofChineseNeologismsintoEnglish1．IntroductionNidapointsoutthat“nothingisofgreaterstrategicimportancethanthelanguagethroughwhichitsbeliefsareexpressedandtransmittedandbywhichmostinteractionofitsmemberstakesplace”(2001:78).Language,servingasatoolinsocialinteraction,reflectsthe
2、changesofsociallife.Eachperiodhasitsownfeatures,sodoeslanguage.Thecreatedwordsandsayingsareneologismsofthatage.Neologismsarebothahistoricalandculturalphenomenonbecausetheyrecordhistoryandpreserveculture.Byfollowingthetrackofvocabularydevelopment,peoplecantracetheculturalandsocialevolution.In1978
3、,Chinalaunchedtheunprecedentedpolicyofreformandopening-uptotheoutsideworld.Withtheimpactofthesweepingreformandtheirresistibleglobalcurrent,China,bycontinuallyadaptingitself,hasbecomemoreintegratedwiththeworldeconomytomeetchallengesandseizeopportunities.Comparedwithdecadesago,thewholenationhastra
4、nsformedbeyondrecognitionrangingfromsocialframeworktosubtlepsychology.Chinesepeoplehaveneverwelcomednewthingsandnewconceptswithsostrongdesireasnow.Wheneverthereissomethingnewemerge,materialorideological,peoplewilltryallmeanstoconveythemthroughlanguage,andaseaofneologismsarethuscreated.Thefastert
5、hesocietyisadvancing,themoreandquickeraretheneologismscreated,18毕业论文(设计)whicharewidelyspreadthroughmassmedia.Accordingtosomestatistics,hundredsofChineseneologismssproutupeachyear.Thisphenomenonhasbeenincreasinglyarousingtheattentionofsinologists,translators,Chineselinguistsandevenjournalists,who
6、havecontributedtotheresearchofneologismsinsomeways.WhatistheChineseneologism?Inbrief,neologismsis:1)anewword,meaning,usageorphrase;2)anoldwordorexpressionwithnewsenses;3)aborrowingwordorexpressionfromotherlanguages;4)anadoptingwordorexpressionfromdialects(JohnAlgeo:2006).TheChineseneologismsment
7、ionedinthispaperrefertoanywords,idiomsorphrasesthathavebeenfrequentlyfoundinradiobroadcasting,TV,newspapers,booksandmagazinessincethepolicyofreformandopening-uptotheoutsideworldcarriedinChina.2.ThetranslationofChineseneologi
