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1、TheSocioculturalConditionsofAmericanSlangOriginationAbstract:Americanslangisanon-writtenlanguageinnovationandthecrystalofhistoryandculture.Slangisanobjectiveexistencewhichisoftenusedbymanypeople,andhasbecomeanintegralcomponentofthelanguageandanimportantcommunic
2、ationtool.ThispaperelaboratesthesocioculturalconditionsofAmericanslangorigination.Keywords:Americanslang;socioculturalconditions1IntroductionAmericanslangregardedasanonstandardlanguageisharmonywiththestandardlanguageinAmerican.Itisacomplicatedsocioculturalpheno
3、menon,andalsoamirrorthatreflectingthedevelopmentofcountry,thechangeofsociety,andtheprogressofculture.Americansspeakcolorful,idiomaticEnglishthatmayhavelittleresemblancetothelanguageonestudiedinschool.EvenanativeEnglishspeakermightbeconfusedbythecombinationofsla
4、ngthatcharacterizesAmericanconversation.SoitisveryimportanttocapturetheAmericanslangexpressioninordertoknowotherscorrectly.2AmericanSlang2.1TheDefinitionsofAmericanSlangSlangisquiteacontroversiallanguage,peoplehavedifferentattitudestowardit.Itisnowonderthatthed
5、efinitionofslangissovariety.Eventhoughpeoplehavedifferentideasaboutslang,inthefaceofmanyvariousdefinitions,it’sdifficulttogiveusanaccuratedefinitionofslang,butonestillcanfindoutsomecommoncharacteristicsofit.AndwhataboutAmericanslang?Itisfoundthatslangcanberegar
6、dedaswordsandphrasesorparticularmeaningsofwordsincommoninformaluse,butgenerallyitisnotseenasstandardinalanguagethatusedbyspecifiedexpressionorclass.Itisnaturaltoreferitasthewordsthatarecommonlyused,andcanbeunderstoodbyallpeopleinAmerica.2.2TheResourcesofAmerica
7、nSlangAmericanslangexploitsexistingformsandtheircurrentmeaningsinvariousways,drawingonandoftenmixingresourcesfromthesoundsystem,theword-buildingprocess,paradigms,andthespeakers’knowledgeoftheculture.Themostimportantwordformationdevicesarecompounding,affixesands
8、hortening.2TheSocioculturalConditionsofAmericanSlangOriginationTherelationbetweenlanguageandcultureareinterdependentandinteractional,theunderstandingofonecandevelopbetterund
