汉语x 门名词性构式的认知构式语法研究.pdf

1Introduction 1.Introduction 1.1Backgroundofthe Study Since the Internet became integrated into daily life, people have witnessed the flourish of net-speak, especially neologism, including some new usages of existing words. These new words keep a record of our society and symbolize a deeper perception ofpeople tothe objective world because every new word’sbirth or rebirth hasdeep interaction with itshistoricalbackground and social situations.In the last ten years, 5246annualnewwordsin Chinahavebeen screened out,amongwhich are 333 “X+族”(X+Zu), 162 “X+门”(X+Men), 69 “X+哥”(X+Ge). These and similar kinds of expressions can account for 25% of screened wordsand terms.It can be seen from these statistics that “X+门” plays a key role in expanding Chinese expressions. The principle reason why “X+ 门” is selected as an object of research is because this construction is so fixed that it has produced new “X+ 门” examples in every year. Additionally, this construction has developed into an international construction. This construction is not unique to Chinese language phenomena but also appears in English language realities like political Irangate or the National Football League’s Deflategate. What’s more, the Chinese language not only applies this suffix into Chinese events but also some scandals of foreign countries like Telephone-gate in Italy, Skeleton-gate in Germany and so on. “X+ 门” has its own superiority on its productivity because this construction tends to have corresponding examples every year. In fact, a new group of expressions such as “电话门(Dian-hua Men), 骷髅门 (Ku-lou Men), 喂药门(Wei-yao Men)” are cropping up in great numbers every year. The family members derived from “X+门” have gradually formed a vast tree of buzz words.These new expressions seem similar totraditional and typical expressions like “安定门(an-ding men), 实木门(shi-mu men), 迎亲门(ying-qin men)” due to their structures, but are quite different