美式英语和英式英语对比小论文The Differences between British Engl

TheDifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishiAbstractBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglisharethetwomajorvarietiesofEnglishintheworldatpresentandtherearemanydifferencesbetweenthem.ThispapertalksaboutthedifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish.Thepapermainlyconsistsoffiveparts.Thefirstpartisintroduction.IwillintroducetheoriginanddevelopmentofBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish.Parttwoisthemainbody,whichcanbedividedintofourchapters.ThefirstthreechaptersofthispaperistointroducethespecificdifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishinvocabulary,usage,expressionetc.AndthenanalyzingthemainfactorswhichcausethedifferenceofEnglishlanguage.Thefinalpartofthearticleisconclusion.ItsummarizesthedifferencesbetweentheBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishandthentalksaboutthesignificantofthispaper.Keywords:BritishEnglish;AmericanEnglish;differences;usage;expression;pronunciationii摘要英式英语和美式英语是目前世界上英语的主要两个种类，而两者之间又有许多差别。本文主要讲述英式英语和美式英语之间的区别。本文主要由五个部分组成。第一部分是引言，主要介绍英式英语和美式英语的起源和发展。第二部分是文章的主体，可以分为四个章节。前三章介绍英式英语和美式英语在词汇，用法，表达等方面的具体差异。第四章分析导致英式英语和美式英语产生差异的主要原因。最后一部分结论对文章进行总结，并阐释了本文的重要性。关键词：英式英语；美式英语；区别；用法；表达法；语音iiiContentsIntroduction........................................................................................................................................1ChapterOneTheDifferenceinVocabulary.......................................................................................21.1DifferencesinPronunciation...............................................................................................21.1.1DifferencesinIndividualSounds.............................................................................21.1.2DifferencesinStress.................................................................................................31.2DifferencesinSpelling........................................................................................................31.3DifferentWordsfortheSameMeaning...............................................................................41.4OneSameWordbutDifferentMeanings.............................................................................51.5SimplifyfromBritishEnglishtoAmericanEnglish............................................................51.6DifferencesinPastTenseForms..........................................................................................5ChapterTwoDifferencesinCustomaryUsageandExpression........................................................62.1DifferencesintheUsageofPrepositions.............................................................................62.2DifferencesintheUsageofIdiom.......................................................................................62.3DifferencesinExpressions...................................................................................................72.3.1TheExpressionofDate.............................................................................................72.3.2TheExpressionofnumbers.......................................................................................7ChapterThreeOtherDifferences.......................................................................................................83.1DifferencesinCharacteristics..............................................................................................83.2DifferencesinTone..............................................................................................................83.3DifferentConversationonthePhone...................................................................................9ChapterFourCausingoftheDifferences..........................................................................................94.1TheHistoricalFactorsCausingtheVocabularyDifferences...............................................94.1.1TheSameOriginofTwoVariantsofEnglishLanguage..........................................94.1.2TheDevelopmentandChangesofVocabulary.........................................................94.2TheGeographicalFactorsCausingtheDifferences...........................................................104.3OtherConsiderableFactorsCausingtheDifferences........................................................10Conclusion........................................................................................................................................111IntroductionTheearlyinhabitantsoftheislandwenowcallEnglandwereCelts(alsocalledBritons).In55B.C.BritainwasinvadedbytheRomanconquerorJuliusCaesar.Until410A.D.alltheromantroopsreturnedtothecontinent,thusendingtheRomanoccupationofBritain.Lateron,threetribesfromtheNorthernEuropeinvadedBritainandsettleddownontheisland:Angles,SaxonsandJutes.ThehistoryoftheEnglishLanguageisdividedintothreeperiods:Theperiodfrom450to1150isknownastheOldEnglishorAnglo-Saxonperiod.Itisdescribedastheperiodoffullinflections,sinceduringmostofthisperiodthecaseendingsofthenoun,theadjective,andtheconjugationoftheverbwerenotweakend.Theperiodfrom1150to1500isknownastheMiddleEnglishperiod.Duringthisper