从英语新词的产生看社会发展对语言的影响

Influence of Social Development on Language Observed from the Birth of English New words

语言是一种社会现象,英语词汇和其他任何语言的词汇一样,都有其社会性。人类社会的不断发展变化促成了语言的形成及演变,带来了大量的新词。作为语言中最活跃因素的词汇,其产生反映了社会的发展和变化,是社会发展的需要和必然结果。社会的发展变化则催生了新词。

Language is a social phenomenon.English vocabulary,like the vocabulary in other languages,has its sociality.The development of the human society lead to the forming and changing of the languages,accompanying which is the birth of a large number of new words.The birth of vocabulary,the most active element in language,reflects the change of the society.It meets the demand of social development and it＇s an inevitable result of social development.While the development of the society gives birth to a large sum of new words.