| With the development of the computers and the popularization of t he internet, a large number of new words come into being on the intern et. Since the internet is exerting a great influence on people’s dai ly life, the online words are also presenting an important impact on the daily life. It is shown that the netspeak has become one of the i mportant sources and component of newly-published dictionary, but the re are also many of them rejected. This paper takes those words which are included in the dictionary as the research data, and tries to co mbine the theories of morphology and semantics and analyze the formin g process of the English and Chinese new words deeply; and then this paper tries to find out the cognitive motivation of the netspeak of these two languages on this basis and compare the similarities and di fferences between them and then tries to give a certain explanation.It has been revealed that in the word formation of English and Ch inese netspeak, there is a similarity while they also have their own features:the proportion of Chinese netspeak which comes from foreign words and dialectual words is bigger than that of English, while Eng lish netspeak has a lot of words formed in a special way of blending, and also has a variety of abundant abbreviations and acronyms; in th e motivation of their formation, they both make use of the metonymica1and metaphorical motivation while there is a slight difference in t he application:there is more metaphorical motivation in the Chinese netspeak formation while metonymy based on both concepts and forms al so explain the meaning of the English netspeak words besides the meta phorical motivation.This study is of good referential value on the analysis of the fe atures and reasons of netspeak. The study can also make up the shorta ge of the previous studies and deepen people’s understanding of nets peak and new words, and promote the vocabulary learning and provide a certain reference to the compilation of dictionaries. |
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