Chinese New Word Family Studies

Analogy is not only the general rule of language structure and language application, but the important mechanism of word constitution. The form of analogy word creation in Chinese new words with characteristics of "new word family" has in recent years been focused. The paper puts the word family and relative new words created after the era of reform and opening-up as models, and makes research on the new word family phenomenon based on the procession of analogy mechanismThe development of contemporary Chinese new word family has dynamic characteristics, as well as the obvious orientation, generation, instability and unbalance. The prominent emergence of new word family results from the external social reasons and inner language structure, and the latter is the leading factor.The forming of contemporary Chinese new word family follows three paths:inheritance, creation and borrowing. Inheritance and creation is autochthonous, and borrowing is allochthonous. The semantic transparency of the above paths is different. The first path is the highest, the second path is intermediate, and the third is the lowest.The semantic development of shared morpheme in contemporary Chinese new word family could be categorized into semantic generalization and semantic over-generalization. The pattern of semantic over-generalization has three types:radiation, chain and composite. The semantic option between the shared morpheme and changing morpheme in word family demonstrates the unidirectional high collocation and collocation regularity. In addition, the shared morpheme and various morpheme of the same word family has different deep semantic relation.In the process of usage, the shared morpheme of new word family in contemporary Chinese has been strengthened, and its usage enlarged, with the prominent performance of the strengthening of word constitution of shared morpheme and the development of part of speech. In the meanwhile, the changing morpheme and shared morpheme is with no exception restricted by grammar system. The combination of various word family and potency of newborn analogy are different.The categorization and decategorization of word constitution are dependent upon each other. The forming and development of word family is not merely copying of original word-constitution pattern, but the consequence of development and variation of the original patterns. The various members within the word family have no homogenization and are developed into the radiation structure characterized by the patterns based on the same word. These word patterns which have mutual enlarged relations are one "family", constituting of family similarity series and manifesting family resemblance. In the aspect of reflecting the social development, new word family of contemporary Chinese has the characteristics of wide-spread, concentration, consistency and series. The pragmatic field of new word family has been enlarged and generally developed from special field to general field ranging from science technology, politics, economics to social life field. In the process of pragmatic field enlargement, hence the interaction of language and social life has been greatly strenghthened.The usage of new word family of contemporary Chinese is also the focus of this paper. The part members of teachers and students in Xinxiang College in Henan Province are the research objects of this paper. By investigating the recognition rate, utilization rate and frequent usage rate of new word family of contemporary Chinese, this paper shows the social difference of various social characteristics (gender, age and education level) among different social groups; by investigating the language attitude of new word family, this paper observes the effect of internet broadcasting and mass psychology on word family recognition and usage.