Proceedings of the 2016 4th International Conference on Management Science, Education Technology, Arts, Social Science and Economics (msetasse-16)

On Word Formation of Computer English Vocabulary

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Wentao Sun
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Wentao Sun
Available Online November 2016.
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10.2991/msetasse-16.2016.330How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Computer; English vocabulary; Word formation
Abstract

With continuous development of computer technology in our country, lot of computer English vocabulary appeared in the process, and computer English vocabulary has a subtle relationship with general English. Computer English vocabulary refers to the computer related English words created by word-formation way of general English. There are many types of computer English vocabulary word-building ways, such as affixation, conversion, abbreviation, etc. The main characteristic of word formation is flexible usage, simple and clear. Part of computer English vocabulary constitutes new ideas through metaphor of old words. For these words, we want to understand its basic meaning and its meaning in computer technology.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2016 4th International Conference on Management Science, Education Technology, Arts, Social Science and Economics (msetasse-16)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
November 2016
ISBN
978-94-6252-263-3
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/msetasse-16.2016.330How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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