The Study Of The Early Modern Chinese

The development of modern Chinese history, the May Fourth period is the initial formation of modern Chinese development period, the Western Learning in the context of society, combined with the May Fourth New Culture Movement have spawned a strong impetus to the formation of modern Chinese, this period Vocabulary development in ancient and modern blend under the influence of various forces, showing the stage vocabulary, characteristic of the times, especially in the context of language contact in the modern sense, a lot of new words with the production, but also promote the formation of modern Chinese Factors, reveals a strong trend in modern Chinese, the May Fourth period thus becomes the history of Chinese ancient and modern facility, China Unicom is an important historical period of Chinese and foreign. But on this particular period in terms of vocabulary research and its importance is also less than coordination, focus small. Therefore, during the term of this phenomenon to study new words in particular is very necessary and essential to a study.Important carrier of new words is one of the press, the press as a dynamic flow of media, all-round record of the social changes inherent in the language of rich resources, reflected, refracted, while social ecology, is a particular stage of the language of social ecology The Record, newspapers and magazines in the study of language phenomena, language evolution has unique advantages, " The Eastern Miscellany "(1904--1948) is representative of early newspapers in kind, it is a symbol of the Commercial Press publications in recent Print and publish journals in the history of the modern time is long, high-impact large-scale comprehensive academic journals. It orientation of publications to highlight a "new". And off-line is very extensive, it recorded a large number of new words in the circulation. Is the study of the initial corpus of modern Chinese vocabulary rare sources. Its contains the term "deposits" the depth of the excavation and consolidation, is bound to the history of modern Chinese vocabulary into the new quality, through the " The Eastern Miscellany " new words (including foreign words) and revealed using the description of the characteristics of modern Chinese can be Historical Stages of vocabulary words to provide more valuable support materials, the " The Eastern Miscellany "in terms of pre-modern Chinese has a very significant learning value of the corpus.Involved in this new term is from 1911 - 1921, published between the " The Eastern Miscellany " nearly three million word corpus of newspaper out of the selection, the selected words were not found in "Chinese Dictionary"to be from the source Confirmation; or "Chinese Dictionary " contains, but only entries without example; or examples of delayed, except through the "Chinese Dictionary" screening, also based on comparative investigation of similar measures included comparison of the two special New Words in Modern Chinese monograph - "An EtymologicalGlossary of Selected Modern Chinese Words"and"the formation of modern Chinese Lexicon and its Evolution toward a National Language "which now appears to be of two new words in modern Chinese Books, into the origin of interpretation, recording a new year's first words, first see the books, the entries included a large number also in modern literature see done on the basis, in determining the new words, there is a very important reference value . Selected the new words into the article, are in the words of the two books are not closed. After three rounds of investigation and comparison to finalize the new terms twelve thousand seven hundred ninety-five.From the form and content, respectively, constitute two aspects of the new words are analyzed and studied the form of words involves the new syllable form, structure, source composition, shape features of the four words, the new form of broken syllables of words Framework for the development of two syllables, three syllables, significantly increase the number of four-syllable words, three syllable word 4967, accounting for 41.77% of total words, four-syllable word 3017, accounting for 25.37% of total words. Structure, the syntactic word formation ability, or the largest proportion of modification structure, terms of affixes clear tendency, and some very active, such as affixes, "- ism ", the "ism" suffix words constitute the largest number of A total of 457, the number of derivative accounting for 17% of the total of new words, words abbreviated form of diversified features. Sources of new words, highlighting the external characteristics, the number of total 9555 foreign words, accounting for 74.68 percent of all new words, including transliteration 2682, accounting for 28.28% of total foreign words, paraphrase the word 6766, accounting for 71.62% of total , paraphrase words have obvious advantages, foreign words in the word count of 60 letters, further enriching the new words in the form of features. Word shape features show large numbers at the beginning of a new era of word characteristics, transition words, words allotropy, shaped over the foreign words. Content, the first part of speech is the distribution of new words, new words and expressions of the three main parts of speech is still the nouns, verbs and adjectives. The highest proportion of nouns which, up to 92.43%, followed by verbs and adjectives, words can be seen reflected in the May Fourth Movement demonstrated the continuous generation of social change and new things, new ideas, new technology attendant vocabulary development status . Second, the significance of the new type of words, new words appear the most followed by the field of medicine (21.09%), technology (19.43%), sports (13.15%), Finance (12.91%), Law (11.61%), we can see During this period of social and political, economic, science and technology, culture, education, medicine and health have a greater development. There is also meaning to the meaning of development involves changes in the meanings of words change, the transformation of meaning of words such as color. New words before and after the May Fourth Movement, in terms of quantity and quality are shown from the early formation of modern Chinese fresh and vibrant, "the Russian October Revolution of 1917 and 1919 China's 'Fourth'campaign to give Chinese a greater impact. ... ... Chinese, suddenly entered the large number of new quality, the number of large, far more than the Reform Movement of the period before the coup. ("Pan Yun Zhong" History of Chinese Vocabulary Summary "page 156) These new words enriched the vocabulary of modern Chinese capacity and Expression, especially the influx of foreign words is of Chinese vocabulary at all levels of an impact. The trajectory of social and historical development, the presentation of a particular era new things, you can find in the vocabulary may trace the development, social development is the driving force behind changes in vocabulary development, vocabulary variations, change is a core value of mainstream awareness and concentration Expression. Generated so much during the May Fourth new term, brought more than just innovative aspects of language description, but must be accompanied by the social structure, ideology, cultural patterns of the enormous impact and innovation. The proliferation of new words and dissemination of Chinese culture and society, the impact of the times is great, changes will inevitably spread to the social situation to provide help.