英语论文：外来语对英语词汇的影响(规范英文版)

学期论文

题目The Influence Of Loan Words On English Vocabulary

外来语对英语词汇的影响

学院名称外国语学院

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职称讲师

班级10级英语02班

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2011年5月24日

Abstract

English has become an international language because of its simplicity and richness. Its tolerance and flexibility make it a substantial absorption of loan words, and thus has great vitality. Loan words have greatly enriched the English language, which makes the English expressions more vivid and appropriate. As a result, it occupies a pivotal position in English. This article intends to analyze the influence of loan words on English vocabulary from the origins and types of the loan words in English.

Key words: loan words; origin; type; vocabulary; influence

摘要

英语因它的简单和丰富已经成了一门国际化的语言。它的宽容和灵活性, 使它大量吸收外来词汇, 从而具有了顽强的生命力。外来词汇极大地丰富了英语, 使英语表达起来更加生动和贴切, 因此，在英语中占据着举足轻重的地位, 本文拟从外来语的来源和类型来分析外来语对英语词汇的影响。

关键词：外来语；来源；类型；词汇；影响

Contents

1. Introduction (1)

2.The Origin of Loan Words in E nglish (1)

1.1The loan words from Latin (1)

1.2The loan words from Greece (1)

1.3The loan words from French (2)

1.4The loan words from Chinese (3)

1.5The loan words from Japanese (3)

3.The Main Types of Loan Words in English (4)

4.The Influence of Loan Words on English V ocabulary (4)

4.1The influence of Latin loan words (4)

4.2The influence of Greek loan words (5)

4.3The influence of French loan words (5)

4.4The influence of Chinese loan words (6)

4.5The influence of Japanese loan words (6)

5Conclusion (6)

Bibliography (7)

1. Introduction

Because of political, economic and cultural exchanges as well as military, technological and other factors, a national language into another nation, result in the loan words. Today the world’s main language, without exception, have loan words component, which is one of the language development process, it can be said that no one language is a purely national character (马学良, 1997). Borrowed from one language to another language’s content, its main purpose seems to be twofold: (1) to expand and absorb new content and the meaning of the concept that not in the original language; (2) to reflect the contents of the new things more accurately, vividly and visually. Any language has the loan words exist, and the number of loan words, especially in English, as many as this is a rare phenomenon in the world language. According to the Oxford Dictionary, as the international language, English totally has more than 100 million entries, in which loan words are over 50 million, loan words made up almost half the English. Shows that the loan words in English have a pivotal position, they have a great impact on English vocabulary, mastering the loan words has great help in learning English.（曾传生，1997）

2. The Origin of Loan Words in English

2.1 The loan words from Latin

Latin loan words were absorbed the English vocabulary at different times. Before the Anglo-Saxon invaded to England, Latin had been worked in English vocabulary. AD 597 Roman Catholicism was brought to Britain (於奇, 1999), Latin had more profound impact to English and become the largest component of English foreign language (Thomas Pyles, 1971). These words are mainly religious, family life, food, trade and military activities vocabulary. Most of these early loan words have disappeared, surviving words are: disciple (one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus), hymn, martyr, nun, and after deformation, such as: ancor (anchor), flasce (flask), and so on.

2.2 The loan words from Greece

Because Greek culture as early as the Roman culture, many Greek words were borrowed into Latin, the same as English vocabulary. Among them, mostly are Technology