英语口语的特点 口语中口头语

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对于练习来说.无论是一个人的独白，还是两个人对话，或者是多个人讨论，多数情况下都是没有稿子的即席讲话。与 用笔头表达的英语相比，英语口语具有一些比较明显的特征。由于口头表达的英语通常是没有事先准备的，说话的人边说边想，断断续 续地说，因而遗漏、重复、出错、纠错、颠三倒四、打结巴、有头无 尾等情况的产生是不可避免的。
另一方面，从语言本身的特点来看，以下几个方面比较突出:
口语中多用日常生活中的 小词 而不用文气十足的 大词 ，从文体的角度来说比较随意。
句子比较简短，常用省略句，结构偏于简单，语法上有时也不够严谨，例如:It s me (I). Who (Whom) do you want to see?
使用缩略形式(如:We ve, they d, there s等)在口语中是屡见不鲜的。
在口语里反意问句也用得比较多，例如:It s a nice day, isn tit?
人们在说话时还有一些 口头禅 ，像You see, you know, Imean, let me see, sort of, things like that，等等。
在英语口语中，一些代表不同意思的非实意词也是常见的，如well, eh, ah,等等。
口语中口头语(colloquialisms)、习语(idioms)用得比较多， 有时也用一些俗语(slang),这段对话就表现出许多上述特点:
The Things They Say!
A: A First-class Honours in chemistry, eh, Dick? I expectyou ve been offered plenty of jobs.
B: Yes, but unfortunately most of them have been in industry.
A: What s so unfortunate about that?
B: Well, I d like to go on doing the kind of research we do at the University. Industrial research holds no attractionsfor me.
A：Why not? I used to think like you, but now I ve seenthat research in industry is just as isfying. Think ofthe values industrial research can bring to manufacturing,farming, medicine and so on.
B: Perhaps you re right, but I d prefer to continue doingpure research一pursuing knowledge for its own sake, youknow.
A: Maybe, but whether you work in a university or in an in-dustrial laboratory you ll be employing the same scientificmethod, the same mental approach一and is there any-thing derogatory in acquiring scientific knowledge to useit for practical ends?
B: I don t suppose there is, really.
A: Of course there isn t. And you may even find people en-gaged in doing fundamental work in industry who haveacquired international recognition in their particularfields.