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- Title
Russian English: Myth or Reality?
- Authors
PROSHINA, Zoya G.
- Abstract
What makes the Expanding Circle Englishes real rather than abstract varieties? This article highlights that it is culture that makes the specifics of an English variety whereas linguistic features might be shared by a number of other varieties. Russian English as a linguistic entity is based on the specifics of Russian culture and mentality revealed on all language levels, lexical and phonetic levels being the most noticeable. The negative attitude towards the concept of Russian English can be accounted for by a) the theoretical confusion of the variety with its only one lectal subtype (taking the basilect for the variety), while any variety is a complex and a continuum of several lects; b) scholars' understanding of a dynamic and functional variety characteristic of a speech community as an interlanguage of an individual with a fossilized level of language competence, and c) ignoring the fact that any variety expresses the cultural mentality in real life discourse. Change in the attitude in the speech community occurs with the gradual overcoming of these misunderstandings, which takes a fairly long time.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language -- Variation; SOCIOLINGUISTICS; LANGUAGE &; culture; FOREIGN elements in the English language; ATTITUDE (Psychology)
- Publication
Intercultural Communication Studies, 2014, Vol 23, Issue 1, p14
- ISSN
1057-7769
- Publication type
Article