认知社会语言学视角下地英汉新词比较研究.docx

Acknowledgements Writing a thesis calls for the assistance and concern of many people. I may not possibly thank everyone here, but I do want to extent my heartfelt thanks to those scholars and friends who have helped me a lot during my years of study. First of all, my greatest appreciation goes to my supervisor, Professor Su Xiaojun, for his constant help in the accomplishment of this thesis, including helping me choose the topic, deciding on thesis outline, polishing my drafts via E-mail and face-to-face instructions. His profound knowledge, insightful guidance and warm encouragement always stay with me. His attitude towards academic pursuit will encourage me in my lifetime, and I will always bear his father-like consideration in my mind. Meanwhile, I owe my thanks to all the other professors in the School of Foreign Languages of Soochow University for their guidance, which has benefited me greatly during my years of studying here, especially such erudite scholars as Prof. Wang Jun, Prof. Wang Yu, Prof. Wang Haizhen, and Prof. Heng Renquan, in whose English courses I have gained so much knowledge. Finally, I am keen to express my sincere gratitude to my friends and roommates for their unfailing support and understanding during the writing of this thesis. i Abstract In recent years, Cognitive Linguistics has been making rapid progress. To study of language per se has not long been the interest of many scholars. Instead, a growing number of scholars turn to focus on the social aspects of language and to study language variation, which promotes the social turn of Cognitive Linguistics. Neologism, the most sensitive part in language, is a weather vane of social changes. Neologisms refer to the new words or old words with new meanings to present new phenomena, new concepts, and new inventions in daily communication. Since the 1980s, the world has witnessed dramatic scientific progress at an ever-increasing speed at such an information age. Meanwhile, amazing changes in