A Study Of Absence Words In Modern Chinese

The Chinese abbreviation is a common linguistic phenomenon and evolution, it is a special kind of word building. The language users to seek economic saving, efficient exchange, the rapid transmission of information, improving the efficiency of communication, through the thumbnail coinage will be complex and lengthy language forms(including word or phrase) temporary combination as a concise form of language, namely the abbreviation, change and Chinese abbreviations only occurs word form without semantics, which occurs only change can refer to, do not change refers, and abbreviated words gradually solidified in high frequency reproduction and use of conventional reduction, through regulation, more like a word, namely lexicalized. This paper takes The Modern Chinese Dictionary(Sixth Edition) collected in the annotation abbreviation obviously as the research object, with the aid of other abbreviations dictionary, people.com.cn search engine Web corpus to carry on the diachronic and synchronic study, reveal Chinese abbreviated word methods, motivation, motivation mechanism lexicalized word, and abbreviated words specification and standardization.The introduction part. The part of introduction, to clarify the abbreviation of name, definition, characteristics and pragmatic functions, and domestic and international research status and content, and the lack of research and innovation to be clear. Lexical and word building, legal according to lexicalization studies are still vacant and Chinese abbreviations research, this paper will focus on.The first chapter is the part of quantitative analysis of the full text corpus, also is the basic part. This chapter of the collected 334 of the abbreviation for quantitative analysis, mainly from the number, syllable, word class were described, at the same time, find no marked abbreviation but abbreviated obviously entries, and sorted out the corresponding appendix table.The second chapter to the fifth chapter is the main part of the paper.The second chapter is the Chinese abbreviation word creation according to the research, the exploration to the word and Chinese abbreviations motivation is mainly phonetic motivation, shape of language motivation, semantic motivation, lexical motivation, cultural motivation, psychological motivations, and gives an example to prove.The third chapter is Chinese abbreviations of word creation according to the research, to explore the Chinese abbreviations of coinage motivation is mainly phonetic motivation, language form and according to the semantic motivation, lexical motivation, cultural motivation, psychological motivation, and an example is given to prove.The fourth chapter is the vocabulary of Chinese shortenings, the analysis found that the motivation of Chinese abbreviations lexicalization is mainly Chinese abbreviations made the term itself has the characteristics of derivative, pragmatic frequency effect, prosodic mechanisms, abbreviated words experienced by the temporary to conventional gauge reduction to the vocabulary.The fifth chapter is the norm and paradign of Chinese abbreviations. This chapter through the list of acronyms and abbreviations in language use is not standard phenomenon, namely the coinage abbreviated words, foreign words, acronyms abuse abuse the same shape abbreviation meaning, mining thumbnail specification at the same time, reveals the standardization principles of abbreviation: be concise and to the point and the necessity principle, relevance principle of optimization and motivation the principle, contextual restrictions, non ambiguity principle, prescriptive principle.Finally is the conclusion and appendix part. Appendix A: The Modern Chinese Dictionary(Sixth Edition) statistics abbreviations; Appendix B: The Modern Chinese Dictionary(Sixth Edition) abbreviation and acronym unlabeled obvious word statistics.