A Study On The Semantic,Grammar And Pragmatic Of English Luxury Loanwords In Mandarin

This article takes “show”,“cool” and “fans” as examples to study the semantic,grammar and pragmatic features of luxury loanwords in Mandarin.The discovery of luxury loanwords is not “luxury”.They have taken root in Chinese language,After going through the system category of source language,they have acquired unique category characteristics through adaptation,adjustment and deployment of Chinese language systems.The whole research consists of five parts.The part one: introduction.This article has a brief description of the history of Chinese loanwords,and reviews domestic research on loanwords at the same time.Based on this,It introduces the significance of this topic,research ideas,research methods and so on.The part two: The semantic of English luxury loanwords.It describes the development and changes of the semantics of “show”,“fans” and “cool” in Mandarin,and reveals that the development and change include semantic narrowing,the semantic enlargement and the increase of color-emotion,and reveals the causes and mechanism of their semantic changes.the former is language contact,analogical language and the pursuit of new expression;the mechanism has reasoning,metaphor,metonymy,and the expansion of the scope of the combination.The part three,the grammar of English luxury loanwords.It describes the grammatical features of luxury loanwords and their grammaticalization motivation and mechanisms.We find that they lose the category features of the source language,and obtained a new category process after Chinese adaptation and adjustment.“show” and“fans” also went through the process of grammaticalization from morphemes to suffixes.The main motivation are analogy,high frequency using and expression of economic principles;the main mechanisms are expansion of distribution,and reanalysis.The part four: pragmatic features of English luxury loanwords.luxury loanwords are limited codewords,which are influenced by a combination of factors in thecontext of the object,purpose,method,community.From the perspective of social attributes,they are the social variants of Chinese original words.In expression,it has attributes such asmarking style language and speaker’s social characteristics;and the value includes economic,convenient,foreign style,and expression of implicit euphemism.The part five: Conclusion.Summarizing the viewpoints of this article,pointing out that luxury loanwords are not luxury,They are social variants of Mandarin original words and have unique pragmatic values.At the same time,it also explains the deficiencies of the article.