传教士与20世纪初的新汉语——以A．H．Mateer和E．Morgan的两本书为例

19世纪末20世纪初，由于接受新知识的需要，汉语发生了巨大的变化。这些变化具体表现在口语文体的出现和大量新词的产生。来华传教士最敏感地体会到了汉语的这种变化，并将这些变化记录到自己的著作中。从A．H．Mateer和E．Morgan的著作中可以观察他们所捕捉到的汉语的新变化以及这种变化的原因：留学生是新文体和新词语的积极引入者和使用者，报刊推动了新文体和新词语的普及；日语书的翻译以及日语词汇的借入是汉语发生变化的重要原因；新词缀大大增强了汉语的造词能力。

Missionaries and New Chinese Language at the Turn of 20th Century-A Comparison of Two Books by A. H. Mateer and E. Morgan Respectively

At the turn of 20th century,Chinese language underwent dramatic changes to accommodate new knowledge.These changes were shown in the advent of oral style and new words,which were detected and recorded by the then missionaries in China.From the two books by A.H.Mateer and E.Morgan respectively,we can see the changes and the causes in their eyes: the students returning from abroad as the introducers and users helped popularize the new oral style and the new words;the translation of Japanese books and the borr...