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Ministry of Education and Science of Russian FederationCaucasus State Technical University, Intercultural Communication and Tourism Department Course Project on Lexicology:of regional varieties of the English language in newspapers in English-speaking countries Written by Bogdan Selenginskiyby D.K. Novikova Stavropol, 2011

ContentsIntroduction

1. English language: history and dialects

.1 Language Variant or Dialect

.2 Standard English

2. Analyzes of English-speaking countries’ newspapers Introduction Despite all investigations in the sphere of regional differences of English language and all the scientists’ works, devoted to the problem, the question about regional varieties is still open and demands further investigation. But it seems that it’s time to dot the i`s and cross the t`s. In the written work we are intended to give a brief characteristic of some varieties of the English language. divide the language into tens of different segments according to social strata of a speaker, gender and many others. In the written work the only division which is valuable for the research is the areal one. Almost all the learners of the English language are acknowledged with the phenomenon. Some of them can even enumerate some of these differences in vocabulary and spelling. But our research is based on the point of view, according to which this division is useless for translators and interpreters as leaners of foreign language.new and new differences one must just learn them by heart like areal-bound synonyms, variants, and no other way. Thus having no possibility to deny this areal division we’ve taken an attempt to divide the “varieties” from the other point of view. It is not a secret that a translator and especially an interpreter must be short-spoken informative and easy to understand. These are general features that client demands. So before one becomes an interpreter they study a lot and they need good example of speech patterns to gain experience of good speech-producing. We believe of course that high-brows’ speeches and masterpieces of literature are immortal and flawless, but this patterns are too far from the aim of being easy understood.considering the all above we believe that the material for building of the language skills must be wide-spread and actual, it leads us to the newspapers. And here we are to face with the stereotypes: the American are too expressive, the English are too strait-laced and so on. And to find the most informative and easy-to-understand language variant in our research we’ve compared pieces of articles in order to find out the percentage of non-informative in business communication units they are stylistics devices such as metaphor and euphemisms. They are acceptable for this genre but as our work is intended to help learners, whose dominate preferences is tempo and clarity we consider them as rubbish in the context. But slang expressions are useful and it stands to reason because the one who is not master of metaphor easily can be professional in Brookline slang. we can formulate the object of the work which is the vocabularies of the English language varieties in newspapers’ articles.subject is specified language phenomena and their un\importance. aim of the work is to demonstrate the areal newspaper among English-speaking countries which is the most valuable example according our arguments. aim of the work has determined following tasks:

. Find out differences between the “varieties” of the English language and “dialects”.

. Find out the “start point”, what is the Standard English.

. Find the differences and the stylistic devices in the newspapers.

. Give them evaluation and decide are they significant enough to consider them a criterion for making the “areal” choice.we have introduced the problem, its object and subject, the way of its investigation. I. English language: history and dialects 1.1 Language Variant or Dialect

fact the English-speaking area is unbelievable vast: it is the first spoken language of such countries as The United States of America, The United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa. Such a range of territories and peoples leads to creating several big dialects, which were isolated. As the Internet came into our life the etymological differences began being erased via communication and be united into one big essential and actual vocabulary, which is used. Traditionally the RP was such a container for the rules and “the best” words. Probably it still remains for some proud highbrows and members of Royal family. Nevertheless the division between the “varieties” exists and to describe it we must provide different definitions of the term and compare them.of all we decided to present the Russian point of view. According to Ginzburg: “variants of a language are regional varieties of a standard literary language characterised by some minor peculiarities in the sound system, vocabulary and grammar and by their own literary norms” [12:200]. The definition is lack of logic, because with such way of considering the things we need to outline almost so many varieties of Russian language as many cities the RF has : “regional varieties of a standard literary language characterised by some minor peculiarities in the sound system” they are Stavropol “Гэ”, Moscow “A”, Vologda “O” and so on. Furthermore saying “their own literary norms” the scientist it seems did not realize that almost every country has more than one literary school with its preferences and the result of following the Ginzburg’s definition is shown above. We should also say that there is a definition of another phenomenon, it says: “dialects are varieties of a language used as a means of oral communication in small localities, they are set off (more or less sharply) from other varieties by some distinctive features

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