The Study Of The Features And Popular Reasons Of "X+male/female" Words In Modern Chinese

Graduate student:Tan Junling Teacher: Associate Professor Luo Mingdi Specialized direction:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Grade:2011The study of New Words in Chinese is a long but often new problem in lexicology. New Words has close relations with development of economy and society, and also closely related to people’s production and life. It is freshness and can be regarded as the growth point of vocabulary system, which can enrich and develop it. In recent years, as both familiar and unfamiliar faces,"X+male/female" words back to people’s sight again.According to incomplete statistics, there are altogether304"X+male/female" entries which we have already collected at present, and still on incessancy increase. These new "X+male/female" does not fragmentary, scattered to produce, but in a considerable number, show the system and integrity of certain. According to the theory of language development, we think the outbreak and epidemic of "X+male/female" words cannot do without the interaction between social cultural environment and the language vocabulary system. The Phenomenon produced by strong regularity phenomenon analogy machine, is worth us to study and think deeply."The study of the features and popular reasons of "X+male/female" words in modern Chinese" is based on the observations and considerations of the popular "X male""X female" words, resulting in the current research of background. Base on previous study and Summarizing the research results, this paper using investigation method, word mode theory, cognitive linguistics, schema theory, pragmatic memetics theory of multi-disciplinary research methods to discuss the composition, morphology and epidemic situation of "X+male/female" word family, and explain the popular reason for "X+male/female"word family from two aspects of internal and external language. It can make up for the previous research which pay more attention on word ontology, but neglected the study mechanism behind the development.This paper consists of six parts: Chapter one expatiates on the academic background and practical meaning of the subject. It consists of four parts, firstly explains the reasons, then existing the relevant researches on "X+male/female" words, to investigate the research results and innovation of this article, finally, we will make a brief introduction to the object, research methods, data sources and the structure of this paper.Chapter two will make a brief description of the characteristics of of "X+male/female" word family in modern Chinese, providing background knowledge for the following discussion. This paper argues that it is because the "X+male/female" word family semanticclosely related to our life and production, and the form is novel, vivid, easy tounderstand by analogy, it is easy to cause the attention of people, and easy to be remembered. All of these provide a prerequisite for the popular of "X+male/female" words.The third chapter analyzes the "popular performance and popularity of X+male/female" word family. Through the questionnaire survey and the network search, this chapter aim to understand the "use of X+male/female" word family, summed up the popular and popular features of the word family.The fourth chapter will make a discussion about the internal popular reason of "X+male/female" word family. Mainly from the word mode theory, language memes, four aspects of cognitiveschema theory and the economic principle of language to explain. These aspects have different emphases, complement each other, work together to promote the "X+male/female" word family pop.The fifth chapter will make a discussion about the external popular causes of "X+male/female" word family.It will discussion from the following aspects: the need of the social developmento promote, the using group’s consciousness, the modern media and the influence of language contact.The sixth chapter is the conclusion part. It will summarize the shortages of this paper and make a reflection on the view of the paper.