从“小姐”一词看词义变异的社会语境因素

On the Variability of Word Meaning in Social Context from the Word "Miss"

语言是一种特殊的信息系统,语言系统所承载的意义,不论是词义、句义还是语篇意义,往往都取决于语境。词义的发展演变总是随着语境的发展演变而发展演变。在话语语境的分类当中,社会语境是一个很重要的分支。词义是以客观事物为基础与前提的,社会发生了变化,客观事物发生了变化,词义必然发生变化。社会语境的变化引起了词义扩大、词义缩小、词义转移和词义的感情色彩变化。

Language is a special system of information in which the meaning of words, sentences and even discourses lies in contexts. Word meaning changes with the change of contexts among Which the social context is an important part. The changes of society result in the expansion, narrowing ,transfer and the changes of emotion of word meaning.