英语专业语言学毕业论文

毕业论文

Pragmatic Functions of English Abbreviations and Their Infiltration on

Chinese

孟祥熙

吉林建筑大学外国语学院

2014年06月23日

毕业论文

Pragmatic Functions of English Abbreviations and Their Infiltration on Chinese

学生：孟祥熙

学号：********

指导教师：***

专业：英语

所在单位：外国语学院

答辩日期：2014年06月23日

CONTENTS

ABSTRACT .................................................................................................................... I 摘要 ............................................................................................................................. II I. INTRODUCTION. (1)

II. LITERATURE REVIEW (3)

2.1 The Origin of the English Abbreviations (3)

2.1.1 The Objective World Factor (3)

2.1.2 The Subjective World Factor (4)

2.1.3 Language World Factor (4)

2.2 The Constitution of the English Abbreviations (4)

2.2.1 Acronym (5)

2.2.2 Clipping Words (5)

2.2.3 Blending Words (6)

III. PRAGMATIC FUNCTIONS OF ENGLISH ABBREVIATIONS (8)

3.1 Succinctness (8)

3.2 Eye-catching (8)

3.3 Highly Descriptive (9)

3.4 Rhetorical Function (9)

IV. INFILTRATION OF ENGLISH ABBREVIATIONS IN CHINESE (12)

4.1 The Characteristics of English Abbreviations in Chinese (12)

4.1.1 Large Quantity; Wide Extent (12)

4.1.2 Productivity; Serialization (13)

4.2 The Constitution of English Abbreviation in Chinese (13)

4.2.1 Pure English Abbreviation Type (13)

4.2.2 Transliteration in English Abbreviation Type (13)

4.2.3 Chinese and English Mixed Abbreviation Type (14)

4.2.4 Pure Pinyin Abbreviation Type (14)

V. CONCLUSION (15)

NOTES (16)

REFERENCES (17)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (18)

ABSTRACT

English abbreviations play a very important role in our daily life. The paper based on the former’s search findings to introduce the four main pragmatic functions of English abbreviations, the infiltration of English abbreviations on the Chinese language and their misuse. The purpose is to awaken readers to the problem of dealing with the relationship between the infiltration of English abbreviations and the purification of the Chinese language.

Key words: English abbreviation; pragmatic function; Chinese; infiltration

摘要

英语缩略词在我们的日常生活中扮演着十分重要的角色。通过总结前人对英语缩略语的研究以及作者自己的探索，本文着重介绍英语缩略词的四大语用功能以及英语缩略词对汉语的全方位渗透及其在汉语中的误用和滥用,目的是使读者意识到,处理好英语缩略词的借用并纯洁我们本民族的语言。

关键词：英语缩略词；语用功能；汉语；渗透

I. INTRODUCTION

The English abbreviation is a common linguistic phenomenon and it is one of the important areas of linguistic research. And in Chinese has also aroused more and more attention in China and has been the hot topic in the research area of language contact. It appears a large number of abbreviations in the English vocabulary in lately 20 years. With the development of economy, the leap of science and technology and the change of social life, quick and concise language are necessary for our daily life. As to achieve saving time, improving work efficiency, using acronyms to replace the original word is relatively common, and it is very necessary. The use of abbreviations is focused and save space, so that the limited space contains a large amount of information, thus disseminating the information effectively. So the study of abbreviation is very meaningful and necessary.

Many scholars studied English abbreviation in the past few years, and they got some search findings. Some of the references studied on English abbreviation and its development. Wang rongpei think that abbreviation is syllable of the word to be omitted or simplified to produce words. According to the searching by Saussure, an acronym is a word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women’s Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging. Xie advocated that the constitution of the English abbreviation include: Acronym, Clipping, and Blending. Yu Fulin indicated before the 1940s, the number of English abbreviation only a little, but with the birth of the first all-electronic digital computer English abbreviation increases.

There are some researches on function of English abbreviation and its influence. Shen interprets from three aspects the expressible function of abbreviations: simplicity, fashion, vivid. Wang Lu and Wang Peng observed some pragmatic functions about the phenomenon: concise, vivid, descriptive, rhetoric and extensive in usage. These characteristics of acronyms in Chinese are also agreed with by Lin Qing and Yang Feng. We can see that making discourse concise, novel and euphemistic is pragmatic function of acronyms unanimously recognized by many researchers.

And some other references research on their infiltration on Chinese. Saussure put forward English abbreviation is a mirror of west social language development. Chen Xiaoning mentioned “the infiltration of English abbreviation on Chinese everywhere, for example SARS, e-mail, ATM.” In order to make full use of English abbreviations and enrich our Chinese, in the article Pragmatic Advantages of Acronyms in Chinese Magazines. Lin Qing points out that English abbreviation used in newspaper and magazine widely, just like CEO.