On the vocabulary differences between British English and American English 浅析英式英语与美式英语的词汇差异

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1、学士学位论文OnthevocabularydifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish浅析英式英语与美式英语的词汇差异作者XX完成日期2012年5月指导教师xX职称XX系别外语系专业英语班级X级X班学号XXXXXXX二○一二年五月二十五日13AcknowledgmentsIwouldliketoexpressmygratitudetoallthosewhohelpedmeduringthewritingofthisthesis.Igratefullyac

2、knowledgethehelpofmysupervisor,Mr.XXwhohasofferedmevaluablesuggestionsintheacademicstudies.Inthepreparationofthethesis, hehasspentmuchtimereadingthrougheachdraftandprovidedmewithinspiringadvice.Withouthispatientinstruction,insightfulcriticismandexpertguidan

3、ce,thecompletionofthisthesiswouldnothavebeenpossible.IamalsodeeplyindebtedtoalltheothertutorsandteachersinDepartmentofEnglish fortheirdirectandindirecthelptome.Ishouldfinallyliketoexpressmygratitudetomybelovedparentswhohavealwaysbeenhelpingmeoutofdifficulti

4、esandsupportingwithoutawordofcomplaint.13AbstractThispapermainlyconsistsoffiveparts.Thefirstpartisintroduction.Alongwiththedevelopmentofinternationalcommunication,andtheaccelerationofglobalization,Englishlanguageisextensivelyusedintheworldtoday.Theauthorint

5、roducestheEnglishlanguagefromitscurrentsituationandusage.AndthenanalyzingthehistoricalandsocialchangeswhicharethetwomainfactorofdividingEnglishlanguageintwomainvariants:BritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish.FromthestandpointoftheconceptsofBritishEnglishandAmeric

6、anEnglish,theauthoranalyzesthereasonsofcausingdifferencesinthesecondpart.Inthethirdpart,theauthoranalyzesfromthehistorical,geographicalandotherconsiderablefactorsandthenintroducesthemainreasonforthedifferencesindetail.Thefourthpartofthispaperistointroduceth

7、especificvocabularydifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishandsomecommonexamples.Thefinalpartofthearticleisconclusion.TheauthorofthearticlesummarizesthecausesofthevocabularydifferencesbetweentheBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishandthengivesafurtherv

8、iewonthefuturedevelopmentoftheEnglishlanguage.KeyWords:BritishEnglish;AmericanEnglish;vocabularydifferences13摘要本文主要由五个部分组成。第一部分是引言。随着国际间的频繁交流，全球化的进程加速，英语这门语言在国际交流中广泛运用。作者对英语语言目前的地位及使用情况进行介绍，并引出英语语言在历史、