访美笔记：美国英语口语观察

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1、OBSERVATIONSONAMERICANENGLISH严辰松1ContentsI.Acquisitionofanativelanguageandlearningaforeignlanguage:DifferencesII.Myfirst-handexperienceofEnglishIII.CharacteristicsofAmericanEnglishIV.Examples1.Commonwordsandexpressionsre-examined2.Americancolloquialisms3.Miscellaneous2I.Acquisi

2、tionofanativelanguageandlearningaforeignlanguage:Differences3Learningaforeignlanguage:Themeaningislearnedoutofcontext,usuallythroughanotherwordoranothersetofwords:anequivalentfromChinese,asynonymorparaphrasefromtheforeignlanguageonestudies.Themeaningisnotdirectlyassociatedwiththethin

3、goreventinreality.4Forexample:applepie苹果饼comfortablehappy;satisfiedcarpool汽车的合伙使用（指一些有汽车的人轮流合用各自的汽车/ajointarrangementbyagroupofprivateautomobileownersordriversinwhicheachinturndriveshisowncarandtakestheotherpassengers5Acquisitionofanativelanguage:Meaningislearnedinthecontext,i.

4、e.,directlyassociatedwithanobject,conceptoreventinreality,ratherthanthroughaChineseequivalent,anEnglishword,orEnglishparaphrase.6Forexample:applepiecarpool7II.Myfirst-handexperienceofEnglishIwenttotheUniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara(UCSB)asavisitingscholarin1996.8UCSBaerialviewU

5、CSBLagoonStorkeTower1011Whatitmeantforme1.AnopportunityformetoassociatethewordsandexpressionsIhadlearnedwithrealobjects,conceptsoreventstheyrepresentorreferto,becausetheywouldbeheardrightinthecontext.12AsanEnglishteacher,Ihadbeenlearningthelanguageforquitemanyyears.Ihadalargevocabul

6、aryandgoodknowledgeofgrammar.ButIwantedtoknowexactlywhattheAmericansusewhentheyrefertoaspecificobjectorwhenaparticularsituationarises.13Forexample:Whatisa“demo”exactly?Whatis“yardsale”?HowdotheAmericansgreetinthemorning?Dotheysay“Howareyou”orwhat?Howdotheymaketheirfarewellatpartin

7、g?Dotheysay“Bye-bye”orwhat?14IunderstoodtheremustbealanguagethemajorityoftheAmericansagreeupon.TheremustbeanEnglishthatatypicalAmericanwouldusetocopewithhisorhereverydayworkorlife.I’dliketocheckmyEnglishwiththeAmericans’.152.Anopportunitytopickupwordsandexpressionsthatwerenewtome,e

8、speci