Multi-dimensional Perspective Of The Study Of Modern Chinese New Words

In this paper, we selected 171 new words issued by the State Language Committee in 2007, supplemented other 254 words which were published by National Language Resource Monitoring and Research Center on2008. We plan to research the new words in the perspective of social psychology, generate mechanism, extraordinary combination and the cognitive metaphor.At first, this article summarizes the new areas of the social life projected by these new words, and analysis the social psychology, including psychology of pursuing difference and novelty, elegance, simplty and so on. Furthermore we want to pointed out the social reason of the new terms, and explain that the self-development of these new words is determined by the social agreement. The using scope and frequency, the clear form of justice is the two standards of social agreement. Second, followed by formation of these new terms and coinage law observation, we achieve to analysis these new words's different sructure with different sources. The study found that most of these new words are noun, the word-building is still dominated by the traditional method, but some new features appeared, such as the tendency of the advant of many-syllable words and so on. Also been observed is the way of the new words's coinage is diversity, concluding the rhetoric, analogy, abbreviation and so on, analogy and rhetorical coinage is the two particular way of coinage. Analogy words is made up by using the same afflix to create a series of new words, this method is productive, and forming a group of words. Rhetorical approach also makes a large number of new words, the main rhetorical device is metaphor, metonymy, anthropomorphic. Through these analysis, prediction and criterion can be achieved, and we can facilitate the use of the masses, even to enrich the spiritual lives of the public.One of the prominent feature of these new words is the creative, they are the result of the masses's bold creation. Innovation is bound to lead to changes. Compared with the words engendered in the past, a significant feature of the new words is the extraordinary combination phnomenon. And this article attempts to describe these extraordinary combinations words, and explore the the causes of these terms, that is, the surface and deep-seated structure and sense is inconsistent. But if it get to the bottom, I am afraid we have to find reasons from the perspective of social psychology: the young people now incline to seek difference, the psychological of pursuiting distinctive make them enjoy the using of unconventional coinage, they think the idea of non-mainstream highlights their personality, and mix various means to achieve this target. Metphor as a basic form of Cognitive in the world, it play an important part everywhere in process of the new words's production. When people create new words, for simple and easy to remember, and take into account the principle of economy of language, they often use the words they familiar to define the new things, to finish the mapping from the kowned area to the uncharted territory. Metaphors has a variety of forms in the process of new words's generation, we can say that metaphor is ubiquitous. One type of metaphor, Innovate metaphor, play an important role in the process of the emergence of new words and expressions. Through metaphor, the scope of these terms's meaning changes, or a semantic typing and generalization starts up, and brings about some new meanings.