A Reflection on the Lexical Vicissitudes of Euthanasia

社会的发展变化首先反映在语言的词汇上,记录并界定这些变化的新词新义会随着社会的发展、人们的认识而不断深化,因此需要用动态的眼光来观察和处理出现的新义。本文以“安乐死”一词词义的发展和变迁来讨论新义的界定问题。New words and senses in a language vocabulary can see the development and new changes of society. At the same time, those meanings will be gradually enriched and deepened with social changes and further cognition. Therefore, it is necessary for us to follow changes in active perspective and very often observe and deal with connotative meanings according to their new contents. In the article, the neology of the word “euthanasia” will be taken for instance to discuss about the definition of extensional meanings