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1、Chapter9AmericanEnglishInthischapter,weaimtounderstandthecharacteristicsofAmericanEnglish,todistinguishthedifferencesbetweenAmericanEnglishandBritishEnglish.Itisalaboriousjob,whileitisimportantthatAmericanEnglishbeaddressedinEnglishlearning.AmericanEnglishorBrit
2、ishEnglish?QuestionsWhatisAmericanEnglish?IsitAmericanEnglishorBritishEnglishwearespeakingasnon-nativespeakers?IsthereessentialdifferencebetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish?Whatarethemajordifferencesbetweenthem?Asnon-nativespeakers,whatisthesignificanceforus
3、todistinguishthedifferencesbetweenthem?EnglishasaninternationallanguageUsersofEnglishEnglishasanativelanguage:Britain,theUnitedStates,Ireland,Australia,NewZealand,Canada,theWestIndiesandSouthAfrica.ESL:India,Pakistan,Nigeria,Kenya,andmanyothercountries.EFL:Large
4、numbersofpeopleintheworldspeakandwriteEnglishasaforeignlanguageforthepurposeofscience,technology,andinternationalcommunication.Ithasbecomeauniversallanguageofinternationalcommunication.EnglishasaninternationallanguageVarietiesofEnglishAsaninternationallanguage,t
5、heEnglishlanguagehasanumberofvarieties.BritishEnglishAmericanEnglishAustralianEnglishCanadianEnglishSingaporeEnglish………EnglishasaninternationallanguageTwomajorvarietiesofEnglishBritishEnglish(BrE)andAmericanEnglish(AmE)Thesetwovarietiesdifferincertaindetails,but
6、thereisnoessentialdifferencebetweenthembecauseofthesimilaritiesofthebasicwordstock,thebasicgrammarandthebasicphoneticsystem.Englishisunmistakableonelanguage,withtwomajornationaldialects.ThereisnosuperiorityorinferiorityasregardsBrEandAmE.EarlyModernEnglishEarlyM
7、odernEnglishisthestageoftheEnglishlanguageusedfromabouttheendoftheMiddleEnglishperiod(thelatterhalfofthe15thcentury)to1650.Thus,thefirsteditionoftheKingJamesBibleandtheworksofWilliamShakespearebothbelongtothelatephaseofEarlyModernEnglish,althoughtheKingJamesBibl
8、eintentionallykeepssomearchaismsthatwerenotcommonevenwhenitwaspublished.PriortoandfollowingtheaccessionofJamesItotheEnglishthronetheemergingEnglishstandardbegantoinfl
