Canadianisms as a distinctive feature of Canadian territorial variety of English
Date
2017-06-08
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Видавництво Львівської політехніки
Abstract
The article highlights some distinctive lexical features of
Canadian territorial variety of English. It pays attention to
preconditions and factors which influenced its development. It
also provides examples of unique words that do not occur in
any other variety of English. Besides, a list of loan words from
British and American English is given, as well as some words
of French origin. The main task of the article is an attempt to
classify Canadianisms according to the specific environment
in which they are used.
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Keywords
Canadianism, borrowed words, speech variety, dialect, vocabulary, lexical item
Citation
Shynkaruk V. Canadianisms as a distinctive feature of Canadian territorial variety of English / Vira Shynkaruk, Zoriana Levyk // Людина. Комп’ютер. Комунікація : збірник наукових праць. — Львів : Видавництво Львівської політехніки, 2017. — С. 28–31. — (1. Моделювання лінгвальних явищ і новітні інформаційні технології).