WAYS OF MARKING THE BRITISH-AMERICAN LANGUAGE VARIABILITY IN S. FRY’S NOVEL "MAKING HISTORY"
Fraiman Vasilii Evgen'evich
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
Abstract. In this article the aim is to identify the linguistic methods to mark the British-American language variability in S. Fry's novel "Making History". The analysis shows a number of means of marking variant differences at the level of vocabulary, phrase, sentence, functional parts of speech, spelling: in particular, the inclusion of regional vocabulary; variation of simple and complex syntax; transcription of pronunciation. The regional differences used by the author mainly correspond with the differences identified in the data of the corpuses.
Key words and phrases: американский английский, британский английский, зрительный диалект, художественная литература, региональная языковая вариативность, American English, British English, eye dialect, fiction, regional language variability
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