英语词汇学课件第四章2.pptVIP

Less productive Word-formation Teaching Objectives: To help students master the rules of word formation and cultivate their ability to grasp the meanings of words through word-formation. Teaching focus: To understand and grasp the definition of the following terms and their features in forming new words: blending; clipping; acronymy; backformation; sound reduplication; commonization of proper names Less productive Word-formation Blending Clipping Acronymy Backformation Sound reduplication Commonization of proper names 4.4 Blending 拼缀法 Definition Classification Features of blends Task Point out how the following words are made. Smog Sci-fi Airtel Medicare skylab smog （smoke + fog） fog intensified by smoke sci-fi (science + fiction) of, relating to, or being science fiction airtel (air + hotel) hotel situated at or close to an airport medicare (medical + care) a government program of medical care, esp. for the aged skylab (sky + laboratory) United States space station; in orbit from 1973 to 1979 Five types of blending according to their morphological structures Head + tail: The first part of the first word + the last part of the second one: Head + head: the first part of the first word + the first part of the second one Head + word: the first part of the first word + whole form of the second one Word + tail: whole form of the first word + the last part of the second one Word + head: whole form of the first word + first part of the second one Features of Blends The overwhelming majority of blends are nouns, very few are verbs and adjectives are even fewer. The relation of the components of a blend can be classified into two kinds: the two parts may enjoy equal status and can be connected by “and” as in “brunch” or one component is the modificator of the other as in “psywar”. particularly common in commercial and journalistic language( newspapers and magazines) and in writing related to science and technology 4.5 Cl