The Research Of New Vocabulary In Eastern Han Dynasty

Language is a tool for communication,including phonetics, vocabulary and grammar, vocabulary is close to people's life,it's the most active in the language.Eastern Han Dynasty, the transition of ancient Chinese and Middle Chinese, has a large number of two-syllable words,vocabulary had been developed greatly than the past. According to the new word,The paper attempts to observe development through the law of the Eastern Han Dynasty,furthermore to find out the general law of Chinese vocabulary's development.The paper is composed of following several parts.The first chapter introduced the paper's significance, methods and train of thought. We establish the corpus about vocabulary sort in Eastern Han Dynasty,according to <The Great Chinese Dictionary>.There are some new words and new sememe that first example has been seen later than other literature in<The Great Chinese Dictionary>.We do the textual research strictly to make sure the corpus accurately, and to doing the research.The second chapter is the symbolic new words that reflects social feature of Eastern Han Dynasty.The symbolic new words involve to many aspects of Eastern Han Dynasty's society, including politics, economy, science and technology, social life and so on. From these words,we can see the close relationship and interactive mode between the vocabulary and the development of society.The third chapter is the new word constitution of Eastern Han Dynasty.From frequency of the vocabulary, they can be divide into the basic vocabulary and general vocabulary.From the number of syllables, they can be divide into monosyllabic words and the compound syllabic words.There is no clear boundaries between the basic vocabulary and the general vocabulary.New words is the general vocabulary when they are newborn.If some of them were been used frequently by people, these words are likely to enter the basic vocabulary.Both monosyllabic words and the compound syllabic words are many in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and some of them had entered the basic vocabulary.Chapterâ…£is two-syllable new words of Eastern Han Dynasty,Two-syllable words which appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty,some are simple words, some are compound words.This part will inspect the new words' structure mode and word-formation mode respectively from the grammar,semantics.Eastern Han Dynasty style compound words and partial joint compound words mostly formal, other types of compound words than before the great development.Chapterâ…¤is the Eastern Han Dynasty polysyllabic words. Three-syllable words are developed in the Eastern Han Dynasty.Chapterâ…¥is the conclusion.Sectionâ… summarizes the feature of the Eastern Han Dynasty's vocabulary.According the facts of Eastern Han Dynasty's vocabulary,Sectionâ…¡reveals the Chinese general reasons of the vocabulary's development.