International Journal of Education

With the development of society and technology, the change of vocabulary is accelerating. The Internet has become an important way for the emergence and spread of new words and catchwords. At the same time, as a kind of independent category, internet buzzwords have become a new focus in the research of lexicology and pragmatics. "Metaphor" is an important way to produce new meanings of network words. Words such as "菜鸟", "锦鲤" and "佛系" produce new meanings by means of metaphor on the basis of certain image schema. "Metaphor" is not only a rhetorical device to expand the scope of word meaning, but also a cognitive means of human in cognitive linguistics. Based on the metaphor mechanism, this paper analyzes the formation process of network catchwords with "锦鲤" as an example, and discusses the mode of Chinese learners acquisition of network catchwords. Referred to the common approaches and methods of second language acquisition, this paper attempts to put forward the acquisition strategies of Chinese network catchwords and other polysemic words formed through "metaphor", so as to improve the vocabulary learning ability of Chinese Learners and expand the richness of vocabulary acquired by Chinese learners.

Metaphor mechanism; internet buzzwords; the research of acquisition