The Research Of Hybird Lettered Words In Modern Chinese

With the deepening of China’s reform and opening up policy and the driving on of globalization, newthings and concepts have flourished rapidly in an explosive way,it is right at that time that hybrid letteredword emerged in modern Chinese and widely used in ordinary people’s daily lives. However, scholars havenot paid much attention on this field so far. With the absorption of the achievements made by formerstudies, this paper would sort out the related language materials, utilize the three dictionaries about letteredwords in new21th century. With the sorting out, classifying and summing up the large amount of languagematerials, this paper would make detailed studies on the definition, reason of emerging, the developmentcourse, characteristic and specification of hybrid lettered words, under the enlightening of “Structuralism”,“three flat grammatical theory” and “Sociolinguistics”.This article would first specify the relationship between hybrid letter words and loan words,abbreviations, and network catchword, then define the hybrid letter word preliminarily. we think hybridlettered words are the result of a Sino-foreign exchange collision, as a compromise made by ModernChinese faced with the invasions of foreign words; Secondly, this article would analyze the reasons of theemerge and development course of hybrid lettered words, we think that the emerge of hybrid lettered wordis a reasonable adjustment of language itself, which is to meet the needs of the new expression andpragmatic demand under accordance with language economy principle, and its development has gonethrough three different phases: preparation, accumulation and rapid development; Thirdly, this articlewould make detailed studies on the form format, phonetic forms, structure, expression of meaning,grammatical functions and application field. We think composition of "letters" and "Chinese characters",and "letter" in front of the "Chinese characters" is the typical format, there are also changes of thephonemes, adding of tones, influence form disyllabic tendency and liaison in phonetics, structure of hybridlettered words is mainly divided into two types: compounding words and additional words, in the meaningexpression, there are falling off of senses, expanding and transferring of meaning terms, and the adding ofcolor meaning, majority of the hybrid lettered words are nouns, and would carry as subject, object andattribute, predicate verb, adverbials and complement sometimes, furthermore, the letters part hasweakening forms,flexible usages and analogy word-formation are also relatively common, in the field of word using, hybrid lettered words had started to permeate from the professional field to the life, economy,education, networking and other fields; Finally, sum up the major problems hybrid lettered words in usingprocess, put forward the main principles of specifications, and propose the specific specification onpronunciation, writing and using, we think hybrid lettered words need guiding specifications eagerly,which can bring standards on pronunciation, writing and applying, it is only in this way can avoid problemsin the process of using hybrid lettered word, so we could use it conveniently and efficiently. The emergenceand development of hybrid English letters is not transient, it has become an important part of Chinesevocabulary system. We could foresee that it will play a more important role in people’s language life andneed further researches.