浅谈网络语言中的隐喻构词

On the Metaphorical Word-formation in Network Language

网络语言是一种新生的独特的语言现象,隐喻作为人类“语言无所不在的原理”在网络语言中也得到了充分的体现。在网络新词语的创造过程中,形象化的类比、想象、联想等多种隐喻思维方式起着举足轻重的作用。词义派生和复合构词是英汉网络语言中主要的两种隐喻构词手段。

Metaphor, as the omnipresent principle of language, also exists in network language. There are many metaphorical words in this new-born and unique language phenomenon. Many metaphorical thinking styles, such as visualized analogy, imagination and association, play crucial roles in the process of new network words formation. Deriving and compounding are the two main metaphorical word-formation of English and Chinese network language.