新語 形成 過程과 再分析

초록

The human community is steadily growing and developing, just as the tool we use to communicate: Language. When new inventions and changes enter our lives, we are in the need of naming them and of course to communicate about them. Accounting for speakers’ word-formation needs reanalysis the complex words. In our approach to word-formation, a word formation pattern emphasizes the active role of language users. If a new word, however silly it may be, is used by many speakers of a language, it will probably survive and it can happen that one day, it is an everyday word and entered our dictionaries. Especially in these days, many word creations are spread amongst the language community. Now, abbreviations were and still are everywhere, thanks to the brevity and  economical efficiency. In the past and the present, people used –and still use - a variety of methods to create new words, such as compounding, derivation or shortening. A blending is a combination of two words to create a new one, but Korean sino character should be treated specially. Initialisms and Acronyms are shortenings, build from the initial letters in a phrase or name. Borrowing is the process of actually borrowing words from foreign languages. Other examples for other word formation processes include clippings, with which the word is shortened or folk etymology, where words from other languages are taken and then, over time, people try to make sense of them. So finally, if we take a look around, we will see a mass of new words surrounding us, brought to us both consciously by language trends or advertising and unconsciously through language change over time.

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