精品文档-可编辑 1 Chapter Two Translation of Sports Terminology ⅠThe ways by which Sports Terminology shape its realm
Through two ways, the Sports Terms take in, maintain and even grow its pool
One method is to recruit words from general English
The transfer from a general word into a specialized one makes many English words polysemous
Like other ESP, words from this source make the bulk of Stock of Sports Terms
This method by which current sport English terms are shaped undergo two phases
Radiation of none-sports words To radiate the meaning of a word is to see a word broaden its meaning from a very tiny point onto a circle expanding itself continually
By this way, thousands of general English words find its way into Sport world
They are then bestowed with strict sports denotation