俚语：美国亚文化群的一面镜子

语言是化的折射，是化的载体。美国英语如同美国人的性格，活泼、随意、简洁、创新。俚语作为美国英语重要的组成部分，不变是美国社会生活方式的一面镜子，活跃在各亚化群体当中，并客观地反映了这些群体的信仰、价值观及社会活动。这些词生动、幽默、尖刻而又隐晦，不易被外行人所理解，而俚语本身却透视了俚语的创造和使用－－各亚化群的心态、精神世界及行业内情，要深入研究美国化，语言是重要的手段之一，通过分析美国俚语窥视了美国化及形成该化的社会土壤。

American Slang: A Perspective of Subculture Groups

America is acknowledged for her advance in modernization, democracy, and is also notorious for her violence, drugs, high divorce rate, crimes, political scandals, and so on. American subculture groups are jobless vagrants, soldiers, sailors, detectives, cowboys, prostitutes, students, music and football fans, drug addicts, professional men, jazz musicians, gamblers, criminals, political craftsmen, etc. They are the merit makers of America both to her bright side and dark side.These groups are the cradles of American slang. The thesis approaches this topic through the slang of six subculture groups-teenager group, beat generation, homosexual group, drugs addiction group and political group to illustrate the American culture. So the slang coined by them can provide us rich information of American society and have an insight of its cross section.