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1、OntheLexicalDifferencesbetweenAmericanEnglishandBritishEnglishContentAbstractIIIntroduction1Chapter1TheHistoryofBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish21.1TheHistoryofBritishEnglish21.2DevelopmentofAmericanEnglish5Chapter2TheDifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmer
2、icanEnglishonLexicalLevel72.1LexicalDifferences72.2SemanticDifferences112.3FunctionalDifferences152.4OtherFormsofAmericanEnglish17Chapter3CausesoftheDifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish193.1DifferencesinRegions193.2DifferencesinNationalHistory
3、203.3DifferencesinPoliticsandEconomy213.4DifferencesinSocialLife22I3.5Differencesinfeaturesofcultures23Conclusion24Acknowledgments26References27IAbstractUndertheconditionoftheeconomicglobalization,English,asauniversallanguage,playsanimportantroleindailylife
4、,whetheritisusedinthepeople-to-peoplecontactortheofficialcommunication.Englishhasbecomethemostprincipallanguageintheworldafteralongtime.TherearetwomainvarietiesofEnglisharoundtheworld,AmericanEnglishandBritishEnglish.EventhoughAmericanEnglishandBritishEngli
5、sharebothEnglishandsimilarinmanyways,yettherestillarelotsofdifferencesbetweenAmericanEnglishandBritishEnglishinlexicologybecauseofdifferentregions,thewaysofpeople’sthinking,andsocialdevelopment,etc.Basedonthis,thispaperdiscussesthedifferencesinlexicologybet
6、weenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish.First,thispaperbeginswiththehistoryofBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishtoillustratethebackgroundofthedevelopmentofthetwolanguagesandaimstofindoutthedifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishinorigin;andthencontinue
7、stoexplainthedifferencesinlexicologyespeciallyfrompronunciation,spelling,semanticandgrammarsintwolanguages.Afterthen,thewriteranalyzesthecausesthatledtothedifferencebetweentwolanguagesfromaspectsofregionalculture,nationalhistory,politicaleconomy,sociallifea
8、ndsoon.Atlast,thispaperpointsoutthedevelopingtendencyofEnglishandthinksthattheEnglishlearnerscanhaveabetterunderstandingofeitherofthetwolanguagesandappropriatelyexpresstheabundantknowledgecontainedinEn