New Period Since The New Word Development

It is clear that the monographies and lexicographies on new words are a focus since the New Time. Researchers showed great enthusiasm for the timely collection and editing of the new words. And analyses and discussions are carried out at different levels. It is obvious that the quality and quantity of the theses on this subject have greatly increased since 1990s. After thirty years of efforts, the researches have achieved a lot on this subject, and witnessed development from a lower to a higher lever, from the shallower to the deeper. After analyzing the materials, including recent theses, monographies, and newspaper on the subject, the author divided the process of new words analysis into three stages according to the research level: the preliminary stage of new words analysis from the late 1970s to the middle and late 1980s; the prosperous stage of new words analysis from late 1980s to the end of the 20^th century; the innovative stage of new words analysis since the 21st century. The author will present the detailed analysis of the hot issues throughout her research, concluding the shortcomings and future potentials of this subject from diachronic and synchronic perspectives. Combining her own comprehension with the development of the subject, the author strongly hoped that this tentative research would trigger following efforts towards this field.The author argues that there is a "stereotype" exists in the field of new words analysis throughout these thirty years of researches. In other words, the new words analysis is strained on the bottleneck period, and requires to establish a new model in the following research. In the last chapter, the author concludes into four norms: to analyze the new words in the view of the overall situation; to do interdisciplinary study; to combine the new words study with the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language; to take the best of the computer technology.