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1、OntheLexicalDifferencesbetweenAmericanEnglishandBritishEnglish浅论美式英语与英式英语的词汇差异ContentAbstractIIIntroduction1Chapter1TheHistoryofBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish21.1TheHistoryofBritishEnglish21.2DevelopmentofAmericanEnglish5Chapter2TheDifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishan
2、dAmericanEnglishonLexicalLevel72.1LexicalDifferences72.2SemanticDifferences112.3FunctionalDifferences152.4OtherFormsofAmericanEnglish17Chapter3CausesoftheDifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish19I3.1DifferencesinRegions193.2DifferencesinNationalHistory203.3
3、DifferencesinPoliticsandEconomy213.4DifferencesinSocialLife223.5Differencesinfeaturesofcultures23Conclusion24Acknowledgments26References27IAbstractUndertheconditionoftheeconomicglobalization,English,asauniversallanguage,playsanimportantroleindailylife,whetheritisusedi
4、nthepeople-to-peoplecontactortheofficialcommunication.Englishhasbecomethemostprincipallanguageintheworldafteralongtime.TherearetwomainvarietiesofEnglisharoundtheworld,AmericanEnglishandBritishEnglish.EventhoughAmericanEnglishandBritishEnglisharebothEnglishandsimilarin
5、manyways,yettherestillarelotsofdifferencesbetweenAmericanEnglishandBritishEnglishinlexicologybecauseofdifferentregions,thewaysofpeople’sthinking,andsocialdevelopment,etc.Basedonthis,thispaperdiscussesthedifferencesinlexicologybetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish.Fi
6、rst,thispaperbeginswiththehistoryofBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishtoillustratethebackgroundofthedevelopmentofthetwolanguagesandaimstofindoutthedifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishinorigin;andthencontinuestoexplainthedifferencesinlexicologyespeciallyfrom
7、pronunciation,spelling,semanticandgrammarsintwolanguages.Afterthen,thewriteranalyzesthecausesthatledtothedifferencebetweentwolanguagesfromaspectsofregionalculture,nationalhistory,politicaleconomy,sociallifeandsoon.Atlast,thispaperpointsoutthedevelopingtendencyofEnglis
8、handthinksthattheEnglishlearnerscanhaveabetterunderstandingofeitherofthetwolanguagesandappropriatelyexpresstheabundantknowle