LEXICO-SEMANTIC PECULIARITIES IN MODERN ENGLISH (ANALYZING ITS BOTH LANGUAGE VARIANTS: BRITISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH ONES)

Abstract

This scientific study is designed to identify and study all the most urgent lexical and semantic features of the English language through the prism of its communicative, lexical level in the modern extralinguistic paradigm. The main types of differences between the variants of Anglo-American English at the lexical-semantic level, namely the lexical-semantic divergence and lexical-semantic similarity, are revealed. These contradictions are analyzed, the relationships between characteristic and common elements are determined, the reasons for the existing differences are identified, the place of the characteristic moment is determined both in the system of this variant and in the system of the sentence language as a whole. Within the framework of lexico-semantic similarity and dissimilarity, the opposition of one-sided and two-sided positional indicators is revealed. The article emphasizes and proves that a comparative analysis of the American and British variants of the English language should be included in the general system of teaching English at specialized institutes and universities.