Compounding in English Neologisms学院：Xxx专业：英语学号：2013102030121姓名：Xxx【Abstract】Language is the carrier of society, reflecting the specific period of the social culture, language is always in constant development and change. With the development of science and technology, political and economic and social, has appeared in English so many new words reflect the specific period, enriched the English a global language. This article lists some new words, the paper analyzes the background of the new words and word formation in the reflection of new words【Key Words】neologism; Sources; word-formation;IntroductionLanguage is a tool for human communication ideas. Generally speaking, thethinking of people depends on language, and language expression. Word ismeaningful in language, the smallest of units used to be independent. Reflect the objective things in the brain, feeling, perception, representation, then the brain to generalize and abstract, feeling, perception, and representation form concept.People use language form the concept of "fixed", to become a symbol for thepeople to communicate, this is the word has a certain meaning. British linguist partridge (Eric Partridge) said, "Words have no fancy; people have a fancy for th em”. Times are changing, in the development of science and technology,thinking in progress, as the reality of language nature also want to keep up with the pace of social evolution, adapt to the needs of social evolution, is the most sensitive part of the language vocabulary. English is the world common language, English vocabulary like any modern language vocabulary, continues to growunceasingly. Shakespeare‟s time recorded about one hundred and forty thousand words of English vocabulary, now even the English vocabulary with five hundred thousand words computing, there are more than two-thirds of words are created in nearly three hundred years. People experiencing new things, new experiences, develop new ideas, always have the words to describe them. Since the 20thcentury, especially for nearly 50 years, appeared in English new words, newmeanings of many old words, English vocabulary is in the continuousdevelopment in the process of metabolism.1. The source of new wordsNew words are being invented or introduced all the time. Sometimes a new word is produced by single person only, in some special situation. These words are called nonce words used only once one coined for one particular occasion, and never occur again. Sometimes a new word coined by a single speaker is used by small group, such as the stuff of the institution, and exists for a time without gaining any wider circulation. Sometimes a new word is coined by a number of people, such a word becomes an accepted part of language, and is fixed in a dictionary.1.1 The rapid development of modern science and technologyModern science and technology bring about the addition of new words without numbers. They are the most important source of new words.Modern science and technology contain many new branches apart from the existing fields. The appearance of new branches in modern science and technology gives rise to a great number of new words, such as:We can see that e - co - activist (ecology) and environmentalist scientist (environmental protection) talking about ecocatastrophe (ecological disaster), ecocide (ecocide) and eco - crisis (ecological), try to solve air pollution (air pollution), noise pollution (noise), thermal pollution (thermal pollution).Protect the ecological environment is so important that many goods ads are written in the environment - friendly (won't damage the environment, eco - friendly (won't destroy the ecological balance, the planet - friendly words (will not pollute the earth).1.2 Political, economic and social changesPolitical, economic and social changes are another important source of new words. Their influence on the English vocabulary is as great as that of science and technology .So we shouldn‟t neglect the import ance of this source.1.2.1 International struggle:The San Diego Union Tribune said” the war on terror,” “pro-Israel,” “a Palestinian state,” “anti-Bush enthusiasm that belong to new words or expressions created in the nineties of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. There is one word we should mention here , the word sheriff in the new expression the world‟s sheriff means …an important official if a shire or county charged primarily with judicial duties(as executing the processes and orders of courts and judges),‟ But here the word sheriff maybe suggests‟ a policeman with unlimited authority used in a derogatory sense.‟1.2.2 Internal political struggleIn 1960 four black students of the Green shore Agriculture and Technical College in North Carolina went to a Woolworth‟s store for a cup of coffee. The waiter refused to serve the simply because they were black. When the students insisted on being served, her were taken away; hence grew up a series of protest words. Such as sit-in It means‟ an act of occupying seats in racially segregated establishment in organized protest against discrimination.‟1.2.3 Women‟s liberation:The women movement in the world has brought a number of new words, such as: businessperson means a businessman or businesswoman. Chairperson means a chairman or chairwoman. Lib means‟ a movement seeking equal rights and status for woman1.2.4 EducationEducation has always been a source of new words. A few examples will be enough to prove it. CAI is the abbreviation for …computer-aided instruction or computer-assisted instruction. ESL is an abbreviation of …English as a second language1.2.5 Sports and entertainmentSports and entertainment have also added new words to the English vocabulary, such as: aerobics, it has two senses: one is …a system of physical conditioning involving exercise strenuously performed so as to cause marked temporary increase in respiration and heart rate‟; the other is …aerobic exercises‟ air ball refers to …a missed shot in basketball that fails to touch the rim and backboard. Power walk means …to walk quickly for exercise especially while carrying or wearing weights.‟ Spaghetti western means …a western motion picture produce in Italy1.2.6 CommunicationsCommunications give rise to a number of new words, such as: ADSL means Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line camcorder made up of …camera ‟+‟recorder‟ appeared in 1981. It means …a small portable combined camera and VCR‟1.2.7 Changes in social and domestic habits:The vocabulary of changed social and domestic habits has also been increase by such contributors, such as: ATM, It means …a computerized electronic machine that perform basic banking functions(as handling check deposits or issuing cash withdrawals)。