Abstract: Loanwords, also known as borrowing or foreign words, are the words, phrases or special expressions borrowed from other languages. With the development of society, we attach more importance to the loanwords in terms of language contact. The paper aims at a study of the Chinese loanwords in English, including the characteristics of word formation, phonetics, semantics, pragmatics and the translation methods from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, which is very conducive to not only fully understanding, applying them and improving the efficiency of language learning, but also to the dissemination of Chinese culture as well as the extension of the Chinese influences to the world. 

Key words: Chinese loanwords in English; characteristics; methods of translation; importance

Contents

Abstract

中文摘要

1. Introduction-1

1.1 Previous Studies-1

1.2 The Significance of the Research-2

1.3 The Introduction of Loanwords-3

2.The Characteristics of Chinese Loanwords in English from the perspective of cognitive Linguistics-5

2.1The Characteristics of Chinese Loanwords in English in Terms of Word Formation-6

2.1.1The Aspect of Phonetics-6

2.1.2The Aspect of Form-7

2.1.3The Aspect of Function-7

2.2 The Characteristics of Chinese Loanwords in English in Terms of Semantics-9

2.3 The Characteristics of Chinese Loanwords in English in Terms of Pragmatics-12

3.The Translation Means of Chinese Loanwords in English-13

3.1 Transliteration-13

3.2 Free Translation-15

3.3 Transliteration Plus Annotation-16

4.Conclusion-17

References-19