| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-16页 |
| ·Motivation | 第10-12页 |
| ·Methodology | 第12-13页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第13页 |
| ·A brief review of the existing literature on the subject | 第13-16页 |
| Chapter Two A General Survey of English and Chinese Neologisms | 第16-36页 |
| ·Definition of Neologism | 第16-17页 |
| ·Classification of Neologisms | 第17-28页 |
| ·Degree of acceptance | 第17-19页 |
| ·Subject Areas | 第19-27页 |
| ·Science and technology | 第19-21页 |
| ·Politics and economy | 第21-23页 |
| ·Environment and health | 第23-24页 |
| ·Culture and education | 第24-25页 |
| ·Media and computing | 第25-26页 |
| ·Lifestyle and leisure | 第26-27页 |
| ·Word form | 第27-28页 |
| ·Importance of neologisms in Language | 第28-29页 |
| ·Characteristics of neologisms | 第29-32页 |
| ·Reasons for appearance of neologisms | 第32-36页 |
| ·The appearance of new concepts and ideas in social culture | 第32-33页 |
| ·New discoveries resulted in the fast development of science and technology | 第33-34页 |
| ·High frequency of cross-cultural communications resulted in globalization | 第34页 |
| ·Turbulence of politics and economy | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter Three Origins of English and Chinese Neologisms | 第36-63页 |
| ·Origins of English neologisms | 第36-50页 |
| ·Borrowing from other languages | 第36-37页 |
| ·Creating new words by word-formation | 第37-46页 |
| ·Affixation | 第38-40页 |
| ·Compounding | 第40-41页 |
| ·Conversion | 第41-43页 |
| ·Blending | 第43-44页 |
| ·Shortening | 第44-45页 |
| ·Back-formation | 第45-46页 |
| ·Semantic change | 第46-50页 |
| ·Origins of Chinese neologisms | 第50-63页 |
| ·Borrowing from other languages | 第51-52页 |
| ·Creating words by word-formation | 第52-56页 |
| ·Semantic change | 第56-61页 |
| ·Adoption of dialects | 第61-63页 |
| Chapter Four Neologisms and Culture | 第63-74页 |
| ·Culture,language and vocabulary | 第63-66页 |
| ·Definition of culture,language and vocabulary | 第63-64页 |
| ·Relationship among culture,language and vocabulary | 第64-66页 |
| ·The main cultural features reflected in English and Chinese Neologisms | 第66-74页 |
| ·Analysis of the similarities of cultural features in English and Chinese neologisms | 第67-71页 |
| ·Analysis of the differences of cultural features in English and Chinese neologisms | 第71-74页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第74-77页 |
| Bibliography | 第77-79页 |
