Practical usage of british and american english in newspapers and magazines - Курсовая работа

CONTENTS lexical english newspaper grammatical INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1. THE MAIN PECULIARITIS OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH 1.1 Phonetic differences between British and American English 1.2 Grammatical differences in using British and American English 1.3 Lexical differences of British and American English CHAPTER 2. PRACTICAL USAGE OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH IN NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES 2.1 Practical comparison of the lexical usage of British and American English in newspapers and magazines 2.2 Analysis of the main grammatical peculiarities of British and American English in newspapers and magazines CONCLUSION LITERATURE APPENDIX 1 APPENDIX 2 APPENDIX 3 APPENDIX 4 INTRODUCTION In our world, there are thousands of different languages, but only one can claim to be a more or less universal and it is English. Nowadays in the world of constant international communication a lot of people are interested in question where is British English or American English. At the same time to get the clear picture it is important to analyze these variants of English through different aspects: lexically, grammatically and phonetically. British English is also known as Queen English that is mostly spoken and written in Great Britain. At the same time it has various dialects in various parts of the British Isles. American English is also known as the American English. It is mostly spoken and written in the United States of America. At the same time, we have to admit that American English is used by a lot of people. We cannot call American English as the dialect, because it has a literary standard normalized from calling American Standard. The topicality of research is determined by the necessity of analyzing British and American English. The object of the research paper is British and American English. The subject of the research paper is the peculiarities of British and American English. Scientific novelty of the paper: we have investigated the main peculiarities of British and American English in practice in such spheres of life as newspapers and magazines and indicated their main phonetic, grammatical and lexical language differences to improve our understanding of these languages. The aim of this research paper is to determine the main differences of British and American English languages. To achieve the aim of the research paper, we are necessary to do the following tasks: to study the main phonetic differences of British English and American English; to study the main grammatical differences of British English and American English; to study the main lexical differences of British English and American English; to analyze the main phonetic, grammatical and lexical peculiarities of British and American English on the basis of newspapers and magazines. The theoretical value of this work is: the investigated material can be used in the process of studying such subjects as useful Phonetics, Grammar and Lexicology. The practical value of the research paper is: the correct using of the phonetic, grammatical and lexical units taken from printed mass media in our communication. The structure of the research paper is the following: Introduction, Chapter 1, where we investigated three theoretical questions as Phonetic differences between British and American English, Grammatical differences of British and American English and Lexical differences of British and American English. Chapter 2, where we discuss two practical questions: Practical comparison of the lexical usage of British and American English in newspapers and magazines and analysis of the main grammatical peculiarities of British and American English on the basis of the newspapers and magazines. At the end of the paper we make some Conclusions and put the list of references. CHAPTER 1. THE MAIN PECULIARITIES OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH 1.1 Phonetic differences between British and American English It is important to mention that there are certain differences between American and British English in phonetic and in spelling. The precondition of such differences occurred in times when England was under the control of France. At that time English language was forbidden to use and people had to speak French. That is why, till present times, British English has a lot of words from the French origin. For example: onion, garage, café, etc. In American English words are spoken practically the same as they phonetically sound. Still, Americans like omit some letters. [3, 26] In Great Britain speakers more often use words with suffix -our and the Americans like to use words with suffix -or, leaving the u out. For example, the words colour, humour and honour in British English will be found in American written like color, humor and honor. In British English there are words those end with ending -re, for example, theatre, centre, etc. The same stands for the British words are ending with -re for example, center, theater, etc. Moreover, for American English it is common to use two