邯郸学院外国语学院SchoolofForeignLanguagesofHandanCollege论文题目：美国俚语的特征分析Title：AnAnalysisofCharacteristicsofAmericanSlangAnAnalysisofCharacteristicsofAmericanSlangAbstract:Withthedevelopmentofthesociety,slangiswidelyusedbymoreandmorepeople,especiallyinAmerica,slangcanbefoundfavorableintheAmericans’eyes.SlanghasgraduallybecomepopularamongEnglishspeakers,sinceitappearedinEnglishlanguageinthe16thcentury.ItisverypopularintheEnglish-speakingcountriesnowadays.RichandcolorfulslangisanimportantcomponentinEnglish.However,itisdifficultforpeopletounderstand.Therefore,itisnecessaryforustostudyit.TohaveaglimpseintothenatureofEnglishslangishelpfultounderstand.ThisthesisexpoundsthecharacteristicsofEnglishslang.ItconcludesthatslangisplayingamoreandmoreimportantroleinthesocietyofEnglish-speaking.Keywords:slangcharacteristicsAmericanIntroductionSlangisaratherspecialparole.Itisneitherthewordthatbeyondtheregularroleofgrammaticalusage,norruraldialect.Althoughitisquitedifferentfromacrolectwhichusedontheformaloccasion,peoplequiteliketouseitindailyspeech.Thatistosay,slangcanbedefinedtocommoncolloquiallanguage,andslangisusuallyusedascolloquialwordsandphrase.Inotherwords,slangisNonstandard-English.Itisbrimmingwithyouthvigor.Itisratheraspokenlanguagethanawrittenone.Unlikestandardlanguage,itdoesnotfromitsowngrammarrules.Mainlyemployedbysub-culturalgroups,slangishighlycolloquial,informalandessentiallynotrespectable.Mostofslangismoreforceful,emotionalorhumorousformsthanstandardwords.Slangisveryinformalandcommonlyusedinspeech.Betweenpeoplefromsamesocialgrouporwhoworktogether,notconsideredsuitableforformalcontextsandoftennotinusedforlong.SlanghasbecomeanindispensablepartofmodernEnglish.Withthepopularityofslang,weshouldknowhowtouseslangandmasteritscharacteristics.ThispaperintendstomakeatentativestudyonthecharacteristicsofslanginAmerica.1.HighlyColloquialSlangishighlycolloquial,non-standardinformallanguage.Beingthequintessenceofcolloquialspeech,slangisalwaysrelatedt