流行词语中的时代文化和修辞意义

On the Ages Culture and Rhetorical Meanings within Popular Words

流行词语是在特定时代、特定区域、特定阶层或行业广为流行的一种语言现象。文章通过大量实例,分析研究了流行词语中的时代文化和修辞意义;并指出:流行词语记录了时代特性、文化物质生活和人民思想观念的变化过程,它既表现为社会生活变化在语言(特别是修辞)上的反映,又表现为人们在文化生活、价值取向上的一种趋势,是时代语言、文化的缩影,所以它具有语言学和社会文化学研究的双重价值。

The popular words are a kind of language phenomenon, which are widely used in the particular ages, particular district, particular stratum or professions. The paper analyzed and studied the age culture and rhetoric meaning of the popular words by a great deal of examples. The paper also pointed out that the popular words records the ages characteristics, the cultural substance lives and the changing process of people＇ s idea. It not only presents the reaction of social living change in the language, especially in the rhetoric, but also presents a kind of trend in the cultural lives and the value orientation of people. The popular words are the miniature of a language and culture, so they embody the dual value of linguistics and social culture study.