A Study On The Universalizing Process Of Jargon

Jargon is one category of contemporary Chinese terms, whose applied area should be limited to some specific professions according to its main characteristic, but as the society develops, some jargons became common words, some developed new common meaning. This phenomenon is called"the universalizing process of jargon", including the two different paths called"the nationalization process of jargons"and"the assimilation process of jargons"in this thesis.The typical characteristic of the former researches in this phenomenon is theoretical analysis with insufficient examples, which doesn't help the full-scale and objective understanding of the whole scene of jargons, not mention the path, the preconditions and the essential cause etc. That is why the research of this thesis is of great importance.This thesis is mainly based on the Contemporary Chinese Language Corpus as the material, which is the biggest corpus in China and can reflect the real and full-scale condition of contemporary Chinese terms. After the processes of segmenting, marking and checking, we got the Contemporary Chinese Jargons Database, from which we got the data of jargon and concluded its five main features. Then start the main process of this research-taking out the two categories of universalized jargon, in which we draw the whole track of universalizing of jargons, concluded the main characteristics of the two categories of universalized jargons, generalized the preconditions of nationalizing and assimilation and found the main three causes of this phenomenon, thus the whole scene of the universalizing process of jargons is displayed.Furthermore, this research enriched the theory of static and dynamic nature of vocabulary system, the method used and data obtained in this thesis can also be taken as a sample in further research of other categories of Chinese terms based on this Contemporary Chinese Language Corpus.