Study Of New Words Of English And Information

Vocabulary has been one of the most active factors in the course of social development .Neologisms have witnessed these changes. what's more, neologisms can also reflect the rules of language evolution. They play an important role as language materials.With the development of information technology in recent thirty years, massive information neologisms have appeared both in Chinese and English. However, when we make a comprehensive survey of existing studies on information neologisms, we can not see systematic research on them in a special dissertation or a book at all. The author makes a thorough and systematic research on the information neologisms involved which mainly come from A Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Words (2002 Extended Edition)《现代汉语词典》(2002增补本),Oxford Advanced Learners's English-Chinese Dictionary (Extended Fourth Edition)《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》(2002增补本), Xinhua Dictionary of New Words《新华新词语词典》(2003) and Oxford Advanced Learners's English-Chinese Dictionary (Sixth Edition)《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》(2004),comparing similarities and differences, dividing boundries, giving the standards of defining information neologisms and the means of word-formation, giving a quantitative statistics and qualititative analysis and describing specifically the rhetoric word formation. All these help to discover the rules of the evolution of information neologisms.This dissertation falls into three parts.Part One is"the standards of defining information neologisms and the means of word-formation". It is necessary to give information neologisms a definite defining. The author gives three standards of defining information neologisms. That is, standard of time, standard of concept and standard of popularity. Word-formation of syntax is the main means. There are at least twelve means of word-formation of English information neologisms.Part Two is"giving information neologisms a quantitative analysis". There are seven hundred and twenty-six information neologisms from these four dictionaries. According to the quantity, the proportion of information neologisms in the new words in Chinese is nearly up to 30 percent while less than 10 percent in English .As far as the structure is concerned, there are about six main structures of information neologisms. Information neologisms mainly consist of nouns and verbs from part of speech point of view, especially nouns amount to more than two-seconds. As far as the syllable is concerned, multiple-syllable words has overpassed two-syllable words in modern Chinese.Part Three is"rhetoric word-formation of information neologisms both in Chinese and English". Human beings have the three chief faculties of their intellect: comparison or the perception of resemblance, discrimination or the perception of difference and association or the impression of contiguity. These three faculties are the premises of the possibility of rhetoric word-formation. Social development and the demand pursuing new expressions of language are the basis of necessity of rhetoric word-formation. There are four main figures of speech of information neologisms in Chinese: Analogy words, Metonymy words, Parody words and Antithesis words. There are four main figures of speech of information neologisms in English: Metaphor words, Parody words, Hyperbole words and Metonymy words.