“雷”族新词的产生机制及社会文化心态

On the Generation Mechanism of "Lei" Family New Words and Its Socio-Cultural Reflections

2008年下半年以来,网络及报刊杂志上出现了一大批含"雷"字的新词语。本文在考察"雷"族新词用法的基础上,从原型范畴理论的角度,探讨了它对已有的汉字"雷"的词义扩大以及它的词类转换机制,并用词语模框架理论阐释了其发展壮大机制。"雷"族新词的产生和发展不仅是一种语言现象,本文还分析了它折射出的多种社会文化心态。

The second half of 2008 has witnessed the emergence of a bunch of new words containing the character 'lei' on the Internet,newspapers and magazines. On the basis of observing the use of these 'lei' family new words,this essay uses the theory of prototype to elaborate that the new 'lei' family words is the existing Chinese character 'lei' used with a new meaning and to illustrate its part of speech switch mechanism. The theory of word mold is employed to explain the mechanism of its rapid development. The socio-cultural reflections of the 'lei' family new words are explored as well since its emergence is not only a phenomenon of language.