A Study On The Pejorative Quasi-Suffix Denoting Person In Contemporary Chinese

With the development of social economy and the popularization of the Internet,many new things,new phenomena and new concepts have appeared in people's life.In order to meet the daily expression needs,more and more new words have emerged in the Chinese vocabulary system.Most of these words contain quasi-suffix,forming a relatively common linguistic phenomenon,such as "Quasi-prefix +X" or " Quasi-suffix X+".Quasi-suffix is a wordforming component whose meaning tends to be blurred(generalized),whose position is fixed and whose semantic adhesion is strong.Among these words,the semantic types represent people is most,forming the person-denoting nouns.Due to their rich emotional expression effect,these words have attracted people's attention and spread rapidly,reflecting people's social and cultural psychology.In this paper,on the basis of predecessors' research on quasi-suffix,according to the standard form,meaning and function,from the perspective of emotional color of semantics,in combination with the language facts and refer to the meaning of The Modern Chinese Dictionary and The Modern Chinese Standard Dictionary,we identified 10 pejorative quasiaffix denoting person,namely " Huo,Nu,Gui,Ba,Chong,Dan,Gou,Lao,Tu,Gun ".On this basis,the paper makes a statistical analysis of the syllabic features of the words "X+ pejorative meaning denotes human quasi-suffix" in BCC microblog corpus and newspaper corpus,as well as the grammatical nature and pragmatics of "X",compares the word features and usage characteristics of the two corpora,and further analyzes the semantic category and semantic matching rules of "X".Finally,the etymology of pejorative meaning denotes human quasisuffix is summarized and described,and explored its semantic evolution,to have a deeper understanding of pejorative meaning denotes human quasi-suffix.