Since The 1990's Neologism Analysis

Since 1990s,our society has taken on new changes in the fields of politics.economy and culture etc. These changes impulse the development of the language at the same time,neology emerge in a large amount, some new words among them produce through giving the old word new meaning . What the thesis discusses is this kind of lexical phenomenon,"old word with new meaning". We want to investigate the facts of "old word with new meaning" and probe the law among them to enrich the context of modern Chinese lexicology.We collect "old word with new meaning"from"Xinhua New Word Dictionary"and the appendix containing neology and new meaning of the supplement edition in the year of 2002 of "Modern Chinese Dictionary".These new meanings of the old words have all appeared or entered social life since 1990s."Old word with new meaning" shows the expressional potential of the language, without increasing any new words to the lexical system. This thesis discusses the lexical phenomenon from three aspects.At first,we give reasons why old word generate new meaning,including the factor of society,man as communication body and language. These reasons just offer certain possibility for producing new meaning of old word, The forming of new meaning must be realized through the concrete production way. In the second part, we describe the way by which old words produce new meanings and summarize two kinds of methods :derivation and non-derivation. At last,we put the "old word with new meaning" into the dynamic space of language application to have an analysis.We focus on some changes brought by the new meaning and make every effort to give an overall description and analysis to this lexical phenomenon.