Cross-Cultural Communication
The Comparative Analysis of the Morphological Features of English and Chinese Neologisms From the View of Lexicology
Abstract
The development and popularization of Internet have generated a new variety of language—neologism, which received a wide publicity in modern linguistics. This thesis focuses on the morphological features of English and Chinese neologism from the perspective of lexicology. It discusses the features by employing a lot of examples from English and Chinese in five aspects: shortening, affixation, compounding, blending and conversion. Meanwhile, special mention is given to some differences and similarities found in English and Chinese neologisms. English and Chinese share those five patterns to form new words but Chinese has its own characteristics for the fact that it belongs to a different linguistic system from English. Lacking in the knowledge of the morphological features of neologisms, communication on line will result in failure. Therefore, this paper aims at revealing their distinctive features and getting netizens to communicate better. The comparative analysis can also throw light on the cross-cultural communication between Chinese and Englsih-speaking netizens.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/10355
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