The Multi-dimensional Research Of Imitated Words

Imitated words have existed ancient times. It spills over into every comer of life, not only beautifies the language, improves the effect of expression, but also creates a lot of new words as a means, therefore gets tons of attention from Academia. In recent years there are more researches of figures of speech, and gradually perfect. But as developed speed and rich of imitated words, the research of imitated words needs deeply explore. This paper will make multi-dimensional research from8aspects, and discuss the internal structure and external relationship of imitated words.Part1is overview of imitated words, mainly expound the produce and development about imitated words, and make a new definition combine the situation of usage, the definition is "in order to attain specific language efficacy and satisfy the needs of language expression, change a part of morpheme of existing words, imitate the form of existing words, and create new words combine the meaning of existing words." Meanwhile this aspect analyses different types of imitate words, mainly about structure, semantics, amount and form. Then explains each type combine the linguistic data.Patr2analyses and proves the characteristics of imitated words. The particularity of imitated words determines the productivity, dependency, epochal character and provisionality. Because of the mode of construction of imitate words and psychological basis people easily accepted, imitated words is productive, productivity is the important reason that can be received and used largely in recent years. Imitated words create follow the imitating words, it determines the dependency, dependency is the most steady character of imitated words. Imitated words emerge under historical background, the development of age needs lots of new words, it makes imitated words come into an important means to create words. A part of imitated words have meaning just under the special historical background, if the background changes, the words will die, so imitated words have provisionality. Part3investigates the causes from the environment of creating words, psychological basis and language factor. The high pace and harmonious of the environment of society provide soil, the psychological basis with analogy, harmonious and inheriting is the catalyst.Part4expounds cognitive theories combined with integration space theory and encyclopedic information. The moving of integration of space theory is depend on fore spaces, two input spaces, a generic space and a integration space. The construction process can be explain by the integration space theory. The creating of imitated words needs the same knowledge reserve between different people. The creating is reasonable and easily receive by people. The connection bases on the encyclopedic information, it provides necessary cognitive basis for the creating of imitated words.Part5discriminates imitated words and Chinese zeugma, malapropism, transferred epithet, homophonic pun. They mix up easily in some condition, the similarity causes obstacle for the understanding and usage of different figures of speech. This part expounds the common point from definition and examples, and makes contrastive analysis about the difference.Part6mainly discusses the positive role and negative effect of imitated words, imitated words can enrich the vocabulary system, enhance the word-formation ability of Old affix, push forward the forming of quasiaffix, expand the meaning of morpheme and forecast the development tendency of language. But the convenience and productivity will take confusion for language system, influence people’s communication.Part7puts forward conceive of standardization, the structure of imitated words depends on some principle, and comes down to two element, so we need do the standardization work around the three aspects.Part8is epilogue, summarizes all the viewpoints of the paper.