Abstract:Language is changing and developing all the time. Vocabulary, as the most active is part of a language. This paper mainly explores the acceptance and disappearance of new words, through analyzing the cases of new words finds out that new words have been accepted for three main reasons: new technology, convenience and positive value; the three main reasons for the disappearance of new words are semantic change of new words, disappearance of some phenomena and negative value. This paper analyses the success or failure of new words is to get people to better understand new words in order to accept and use new vocabulary.
Key words:New words; Development; Acceptance; Disappearance
CONTENTS
Abstract
中文摘要
1.Introduction 1
2.Literature Review. 2
3.Development of New Words 3
3.1 Appearance of New Words
3.2 Loan Words
3.3 Semantic Change of New Words
4. Acceptance and Disappearance of New Words4
4.1 Acceptance Causes of New Words
4.1.1 New technology
4.1.2 Convenience
4.1.3 Semantic Change
4.1.4 Positive Value
4.2 Disappearance Causes of New Words
4.2.1 Semantic Change
4.2.2 Disappearances of some Phenomena
4.2.3 Negative Value
5.Conclusion9
Bibliography 10
Acknowledgments 11