摘要
20世纪80年代以来,大量Mc-前缀词频繁出现在英语报刊杂志和互联网上,其中一些构词被权威字典收录。文章通过对2000年到2012年期间相关文章数据库和媒体进行语料检索,发现该词族并没有获得语言学界足够的关注。因此,文章重点考察在美国文化背景下《Mc-在商业界的意义》一文中有关Mc-前缀词族及其所涉及的相关问题,探讨Mc-前缀词族的发展、新生语义及其构词理据。
Words with the Me-prefix have experienced a long and dynamic process of semantic changes. Since 1980s, numerous words with the Me-prefix have frequently appeared on newspapers, magazines, and the Internet; some of these words have been compiled in.dictionaries, yet little attention have linguists from western and eastern academic fields paid to. This paper has conducted a retrieval research on words with the Me-prefix showing up be- tween 2000 and 2012 on web database and media, in an attempt to investigate definitions of this prefix demonstra- ted in Me-： Meaning in the Marketplace based on American cultural background, to illustrate new definitionsof Me-, categorize trends of semantic changes, and analyze motivations for the ehanges.
出处
《东华理工大学学报（社会科学版）》
2013年第1期50-54,共5页
Journal of East China University of Technology(Social Science)
关键词
Mc-
前缀
词义变化
归类
动因
Mc-
prefix
semantic changes
categorizations
motivations
