Main Difficulties of Comparative Studies of English Regionally Marked Nominative Units

The author analyzes the main difficulties researchers may face in studying British and American nominative units (words or word combinations) from comparative perspective, namely: changeability of the regional status of the units in question; inaccuracy of the metalanguage of the research; methods a...

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Autor principal:	D. L. Amitirova-Turgeneva
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Publicado:	Tsentr nauchnykh i obrazovatelnykh proektov 2018
Materias:	comparative study regional markedness polynational languages americanisms briticisms Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages PG1-9665
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:0d9c7f004ffb427a991a5934111a22662021-12-02T07:58:04ZMain Difficulties of Comparative Studies of English Regionally Marked Nominative Units2225-756X2227-129510.24224/2227-1295-2018-5-9-18https://doaj.org/article/0d9c7f004ffb427a991a5934111a22662018-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.nauka-dialog.ru/jour/article/view/792https://doaj.org/toc/2225-756Xhttps://doaj.org/toc/2227-1295The author analyzes the main difficulties researchers may face in studying British and American nominative units (words or word combinations) from comparative perspective, namely: changeability of the regional status of the units in question; inaccuracy of the metalanguage of the research; methods applied; selection of units for analysis; discrepancies in the ways of presenting information by dictionaries. Ways to overcome the difficulties are suggested: applying a wide range of sources for researches (corpora, dictionaries of American English, academic dictionaries, texts from fiction, or from films and plays, questionnaire data collection, monitoring of the information provided by dictionaries; thorough choice of the terms, e.g. using the term “regional variation” or “regional markedness”); employing methods of semantic analysis and comparative linguistics; using certain criteria for determining the fact that a nominative unit belongs to British or American English. Much attention is paid to the importance of researches into the differences between British and American English as the most influential varieties of the English language. The article may be of interest for the linguists studying varieties of English or other polynational languages.D. L. Amitirova-TurgenevaTsentr nauchnykh i obrazovatelnykh proektovarticlecomparative studyregional markednesspolynational languagesamericanismsbriticismsSlavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languagesPG1-9665RUНаучный диалог, Vol 0, Iss 5, Pp 9-18 (2018)
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topic	comparative study regional markedness polynational languages americanisms briticisms Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages PG1-9665
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description	The author analyzes the main difficulties researchers may face in studying British and American nominative units (words or word combinations) from comparative perspective, namely: changeability of the regional status of the units in question; inaccuracy of the metalanguage of the research; methods applied; selection of units for analysis; discrepancies in the ways of presenting information by dictionaries. Ways to overcome the difficulties are suggested: applying a wide range of sources for researches (corpora, dictionaries of American English, academic dictionaries, texts from fiction, or from films and plays, questionnaire data collection, monitoring of the information provided by dictionaries; thorough choice of the terms, e.g. using the term “regional variation” or “regional markedness”); employing methods of semantic analysis and comparative linguistics; using certain criteria for determining the fact that a nominative unit belongs to British or American English. Much attention is paid to the importance of researches into the differences between British and American English as the most influential varieties of the English language. The article may be of interest for the linguists studying varieties of English or other polynational languages.
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title	Main Difficulties of Comparative Studies of English Regionally Marked Nominative Units
title_short	Main Difficulties of Comparative Studies of English Regionally Marked Nominative Units
title_full	Main Difficulties of Comparative Studies of English Regionally Marked Nominative Units
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Main Difficulties of Comparative Studies of English Regionally Marked Nominative Units

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