A Brief Analysis on the Lettered Words in Chinese--From the Perspective of Ecolinguistics

It has been more than a century since the emergence of the lettered words. After that, with the development of economy and culture, the increase of international contacts and communication between China and foreign countries, lettered words have been appearing more frequently. Lettered words have become an indispensable part of Chinese vocabulary, such as WTO, Ka la OK and MP3. As a new phenomenon in the vocabulary system of the modern Chinese, the lettered words draws a lot of academic attention. Ecolinguistics is a new branch of linguistic, which combine the linguistic with the ecology. This paper is trying to analyze the lettered words from the perspective of Ecolinguistics. This paper will discuss the reasons of appearing the lettered words and the influence may give to modern Chinese form the ecolinguistic view.