汉语新词语意义的建构与重要关系的压缩分析word格式论文.docxVIP

TABLE OF CONTENTS中文摘要IABSTRACT IITABLE OF CONTENTS IIICHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION1THE BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATION OF THE STUDY1THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY1THE OVERVIEW OF THE THESIS2CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW3THE DEFINITION OF NEOLOGISM3SEMANTIC STUDIES4Componential Analysis and Formal Semantics4Conceptual Blending5Summary 13CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY15DATA COLLECTION 15DATA ANALYSIS 15Quantitative Analysis 15Qualitative Analysis 16CHAPTERFOURANALYSISOFCHINESENEOLOGISMS THROUGH17QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH RESULTS 17QUALITATIVE CASE STUDY 17Case of Property 18Case of Intentionality 19Case of Cause-Effect 20Case of Change 22Case of Identity 23Case of Analogy and Disanalogy 25Case of Similarity 27Case of Space 28Case of Representation 29Case of Time 31Case of Role 32Case of Part-Whole 34Case of Category 35Uniqueness 37DISCUSSION 37CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION 39CONCLUSIONS 39IMPLICATIONS OF THE PRESENT STUDY 39LIMITATIONS AND FURTHER STUDY 40ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 41REFERENCES 42APPENDIX 44Chapter One IntroductionThe Background and Motivation of the StudyBright (1964) proposes the theory about the covariation of language and social structure: There exists covariant relationship between language and society and they interact with each other, which can be clearly reflected in the phenomenon that neologisms pour in with the development of society. In China, with the widespread use of Internet since the 1990s and the development of mass media, a large number ofnewly coined words such as 僵尸用户 jiāngshī yònghù have been produced in variouskinds of communication. Those words, the other way around, are a pretty good barometer of society‘s development and the resulting psychological changes of people.It cannot be denied that the newly coined words or neologisms can be well understood and even creatively applied by people. But sometimes it may be hard for them to interpret those neologisms from the traditional perspectives of semantic studies (Wang, 2009). That is to say, how to interp