美国俚语 开题报告

本科毕业论文（设计）

开题报告

题目：浅析美国俚语

学院：英语学院

专业：英语

班级：0903班

学号：**********

学生姓名：***

指导教师：**

开题日期：2012年5月1日

1Purpose and Significance

1.1 The purpose of this paper

American slang is a kind of informal language and it becomes more and more important in communication. Slang now is infiltrating into formal language and it becomes the complement of the standard language expression. Nowadays, no matter talking casually in the street, talking seriously in the congress or in the literal works and magazines, you can find the use of slang. American slang is used in more and more fields and it becomes a special characteristic of modern American oral language. Thus, we can know that it is very necessary to learn American slang.

1.2 The significance of this paper

The study of American slang can help us to know more about the politics and the culture of America especially the daily life of American. In modern society, the use of American slang has infiltrated into each field of America. To learn the features, the development of American slang is helpful for us to known more about the advanced culture and bring into more advanced technology of America.

2 Main Content and Major Issues to be Solved

2.1 Main content

In my paper, I will general analyze the background, characteristic, and social functions of American

Chapter 1 will gives a brief introduction of American slang. In general, the definition of slang in dictionary, it is an informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar.

Chapter 2 introduces the background of modern American slang. According to the China Internet network information center (CNNIC), by the end of last year, The number of China's Internet users has reached 420 million, more than a third of them are the users of making friends and chatting on the social networking sites, which almost reached 200 million. An investigation revealed that the young people have been the key players in the structure of the netizen, with an average age of 27-year-old,

and most of them are the middle or higher income earners. The network language has become the most basic and commonly symbol of the network communication among the young generation. It provides rich and thick soil to the development of communicative English on the Internet.

Chapter 3 focuses on the source of American slang, I will analyze the characteristics of communicative English on the Internet in the aspect of lexical features, and mainly discusses it in three aspects: (1)Innovation. The Internet offers a space for people to develop their creativity and imaginations freely. According to investigation statistics, most Internet users are the young people who has received a good education. They are full of intelligence and creativity, and also free to create the creativity of language they like through the increasing variety of information resources on the Internet. (2) Iconicity. On the Internet, some digital numbers, letters and special characters are widely used to express our emotions and feelings. Since these combination are very vivid, most people are accepted it easily and quickly. So after you familiarized yourself with these customary procedures, it mushroomed into a very important complement of the network language. These combinations are mostly formed by many vivid and humor expressions and some movements of the graphics, and these expressions and graphics are instead of word language in a certain degree.

(3)Economy. Due to the particularities of communication on the Internet, the vocabulary of Network English also have some obviously characteristics of economy, besides economical of word's diction, the Network language also try to break through the limitations of the original written symbols and change some conventional standards of language, in order to created a new form of the combination of the form, sound and meaning. Such as lettered words, numbered words and graphical symbols,etc. Its richness are much more than the traditional language patterns. Communicative English on the Internet is based on the Internet and evolving with its growth. With the popularization of computers and the continuing spread of the global village, the Internet has brought great changes to people's life and language changes reflect the tendency as a result. The development of the Internet makes