English Newspaper Neologism And Its Translation

The idea of this paper emerged from a series of books about English neologisms and a large number of newspapers in which neologisms found their appearance. Newspaper, being one of the quickest and widest medium, serves as a major cradle for the creation of new words. In the history, the previous researches on the English neologisms put the emphasis upon the collection and explanation of these new words. On the basis of these precious materials, this paper explores the reasons and methods of the coining of English newspaper neologisms. Politics, economy, technology and social cultural are generally regarded as the four major sources for the coining of English neologisms. The new words which were created after 9/11 are a case in point. As for the methods of the production of neologisms, eight of them arementioned in this paper-compounding, affixation, analogy, blending, shortening,borrowing, conversion and old words putting on new meaning, etc. Futhermore, this paper pays another emphasis on the translation of the English newspaper neologisms into Chinese. The subject of translation has come of age, and there are many different approaches, different schools and different perspectives. Among all these numerous translation theories, there should be congenial theories for the translation of English newspaper neologisms. Therefore, this paper lays its priority on the equivalence (here refers to Nida' s equivalence) and the cultural translation. Illustrated by many examples, we can see the feasibility of these translation theories in this field. With the development of the society, the study on the translation of English newspaper neologisms will go on incessantly. The writer believes that the further exploration on this field will pay an important role on the sophisticated researches on Enlgish itself.