英语外来词的修辞功能

Rhetoric Functions of Loan Words in English

外来词是语言接触的结果,也是语言非自足性的表现。在英语词汇系统中,外来词有着与其他词汇相异的独特一面,这一点在它的修辞功能方面显得尤为明显。可以说,外来词已成为英语修辞的一个独特的领域。外来词的修辞功能主要体现在填补词汇空白,追求新奇,使语言明确、简洁、雅典、庄重、含蓄、委婉,同时也可用来表达情感,唤起联想,装点门第和气派。

Loan words, as a result of language communication, represent the self-insufficiency of a language. Compared with other words, loan words in English vocabulary system have their unique features, which is apparent in their rhetoric functions. It may be said that loan words have become a unique field in English rhetoric. Loan words have the following rhetoric functions： filling the vacancy in glossary, making language clear, simple, elegant, solemn, implicit and euphemistic. Loan words may also be used to express one＇s emotions, to arouse one＇s imagination, and to show one＇s air