英语新词汇的变化和发展 [5]
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rned into new look , chief executive has been turned into top man, intercontinental cable has been turned into hot line, cookery book has been turned into cook book, British railway has been turned into British way, advertisment has been turned into AD, wisecrack has been turned into crack, refrigerator has been turned into fridge, microphone has been turned into mike, earthquake has been turned into quake, saxphone has been turned into sax.
And such as “American Dream ”, means the spirit of founding the state of U.S.A., everybody is free and has equal opportunity , and the “cheesecake ”, means the photo of a healthy woman , the beefcake , means the photo of a healthy man .The “halfway house” , means the hospital .
People usually change the language into the way that it is much easier to understand and use . We only need a simple life and we should make our life much easier .
The special words have been changed into general words is just the development of the English language , and it also results in increase the English vocabulary . If the English language did not change for a long time , we should think it over , for , the language should change with the development of the society . The language is as anything else in the world , it should change and develop with nonstop .
4. Need and function
We can often see the “function characteristic ” that said languages change on some books , in fact, this characteristic is based on the language user's need , so the language has changed.
4.1 The need of people
According to the chang
e of vocabulary the change of language illustrates the need of people. The vocabulary that we do not need will be forgotten : unless they are needed in literally works such as the play, the words can be keep down by people . Clothes that people do not wear now, for example . The “doublet” ( it is a kind of vest in men's style in westerner countries from the 14th century to the 16th century) and the “kirtle ” (a kind of women’s skirt or a kind of man’s overcoat of the old times) . Because of the need of people , new words have been made created . Such as “yarg ” which refers to a kind of cheese that has been produced recently. “ Humorology ” means a kind of research about humorous discipline in recent years . “A dead-cat bounce ”refers to a kind of stock , this is a new vocabulary when people worried about the economic condition.
If people think that the old names of something are no longer suitable, they will change too. So, some new words should be created . It is reported that a corporation of London wish a word can instead of the word “ blind ” . Because they are thinking of a kind way to treat by using the “ visually challenged ” . It is much better than the word “ blind ” . And at the same time , in one of the American novels , the officials in New York government concerning a commission used “ non-productive ex-consumer materials ” for the word “garbage” . This is because that the officials in New York government want to change the boring work into an interesting work , so new words have been created . We can regarded that the appearance of idioms is for the need of people . When the old word has been used for a long time , the new words will take the place of some old words . The change is for the need of people and for the developing language .
4.2 The need of the society
We can notice that sometimes the need of the society can cause the change of the language , it is not only add several
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