“虫”的类词缀化

Abstract

With the development of internet, some new communication media such as weibo, weixin have gradually appeared in recent years. These network platforms provide us platform to exchange new ideas, discovery new thoughts and reflect the social visage. At the same time, these platforms are places where lots of neologisms are mainly produced and used frequently. This thesis aims to study “chong” and analyses the literal meaning changed of character “chong” diachronically since Qin dynasty. Especially, the grammatical meaning of quasi-suffix “chong” has been used widely, such as used to refer to a category of people that produce a lot of neologisms. And we will make use of these neologisms to analyze the evolution of quasi-suffix “chong” from three aspects: semantic overgeneralization, positional stability and the productivity of word-formation. In addition, this paper will also discuss commendatory and derogatory senses of the quasi-suffix “chong” when it refers to the category of people. Furthermore, we will attempt to explain the internal mechanism of the quasi-suffix“chong”, which transfer from the derogatory to neutral or even commendatory.