The Exploration Of The Chinese New Words And Expressions In The 5th Edition Of "Contemporary Chinese Dictionary"

New words are like a barometer of observing social life and a mirror of reflecting realities. Meanwhile, new words as the most open and dynamic part of the language system results in their creation and extinction greatly influences the contemporary Chinese system. Therefore, the analysis and study of the creation types, coinage methods, basic features, and stable reasons of new words has very important meaning for language cognition and social cognition.The Contemporary Chinese Dictionary is an authoritative dictionary for its update, its duty of fixing norms of vocabulary and adapting to social development. It selects relatively normative new words according to the principle of universality, stability, and appropriateness.Through the method of traditional linguistic description, analysis and the method of social linguistic statistical analysis, this thesis describes and analyzes the creation and evolution of the present and dynamic words. Their coinage norms, features, etc., are based on data of 1500 new words with entries from letter A to K in the Contemporary Chinese Dictionary The 5th edition.