Abstract
In order to meet the reference of new things and new phenomena appearing in the society, people have to create some new words and use them to complete the communicative needs. As a linguistic phenomenon, “cloud X” has existed for a long time, and even stagnated because it only consists of words related to computer and network. However, with the spread of COVID-19 at the beginning of 2020, the quasi affix “cloud”seems to have been given new meaning, produced a new combination, and has become one of the most active quasi affixes at this stage. Therefore, this paper chooses the quasi affix “cloud” as the research object, analyzes and studies the “cloud” and “cloud” words from four aspects: the semantics of “cloud”, the quasi-affixation of “cloud”, the structural characteristics of “cloud X” and the formation and development mechanism of “cloud” family of words.
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