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1、TheanalysisofEnglishneologism现代英语新词分析AbstractWiththedevelopmentofsocietyandthetechnicaladvancement,thereareagreatmanyneologismsemergingintheEnglishvocabulary.Theyarenotcreatedfreely;theyfollowsomerules,theprocessesofword–formation.Withouttheintroductionandconclusion,thisartic
2、leincludesthreesections,whichformthemainbodyofthisessay.TheydefinethesourcesofEnglishneologisms,word-formationprocesses,andthegeneraltrendofEnglishneologismsrespectively. ThepurposesofthisarticlearetostudythepracticalvalueofEnglishneologisms,stimulateEnglishlearners’interest,
3、andhelpthemenlargetheirvocabularyeffectively.Besides,itwillhelpthemovercometheobstacleintheirEnglishlearningandreadingcausedbytheneologisms. KeyWordsNeologisms,sources,word-formationprocesses,trend摘 要随着现代社会的飞速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
4、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 IntroductionAsafamousAmericantranslationtheoristEugeneA.Nada(1982)said,“OneofthemostimportantcharactersinEnglishiswhichcould
5、beeasilychanged.”Exactly,withthedevelopmentofsocietyandtechnologyadvancement,Englishneologismsarecreatedoneafteranother.AccordingtothecountingoftheBarnhartDictionaryCompanionMagazine,1500-1600newwordsareenteringtheircomputerdatabaseeachyear.ModernEnglishhasavocabularyof500,00
6、0words,and2/3ofthemarecreatedduringthelatest300years(WangRongpei,1997)WhenwereadtheEnglishnewspapers(suchasNetizen)andmagazines(suchasYetties)orlistentotheEnglishbroadcast(Watergate),howfrequentlyweencounterneologismsandwehavetoacknowledgethefactthatwecannotalwaysdependonthed
7、ictionaries,soitisveryimportantforEnglishlearnerstostudyneologisms.AccordingtotheOxfordDictionaryofNewWords(ElizabethKnowleswithJuliaElliott,1998),neologismsrefertothenewwordsandexpressionsusedinthegivenperiod.IntheEnglishlinguisticsystem,thechangingofphoneticsandgrammarisrel
8、ativelyslow;bothofthempossessthestabilitytoacertaindegree.Butthevoca