Study On Neologism Of Mandarin Of The Time

This paper studies neologism of mandarin of the time from eight aspects by way of quantitative and qualitative analysis.In chapter one, the author makes a definition of neologism and critically reviews the studies about it from 1940' to now. Neologism may not be normal words but they must have appeared some times which have new meaning and new structure, or only one of them. It is important to contact the neologism with words of modern Chinese and Classical Chinese systematically in many more aspects.In chapter two, the author investigates exterior appearances of neologism and thinks that the words of nouns and verbs, the words with two syllables, and the words with both new meaning and new structure, or only with new structure, are the main body of neologism.The chapter three investigates the origins: many neologism came from Yue dialect, many came from terms of economics and science, and many came from foreign languages especially from English in way of transcription by nonlettered characters and blendwords consisting of Chinese characters and letters.Chapter four focus on the methods that how to build neologism. It indicates that people use only few new methods to create them. It only gives prominence to blendwords consisting of Chinese characters and letters and words only by letters.In chapter five, the author reviews the morpheme how to indicate the meaning of neologism and it concludes that much meaning can't be indicated directly.The author designs a structure that how to study the motivation of neologism and point out the importance of it in chapter six.In chapter seven, the author investigates the influence on the system of morpheme: some new morphemes appear and some morphemes have new meanings. New morphemes come from transcription by nonlettered characters, and morphemes with new meanings are the result of Chinese itself.The last chapter investigates synonymies of neologism and tell us that the appearance and existence of synonymies are the important result of the abundance of language. Furthermore, the term's application from it's own register to another one is the main fashion of changing in meaning.