REGIONAL LANGUAGE VARIABILITY IN THE BRITISH AND AMERICAN EDITIONS OF “HARRY POTTER”

Abstract

The article presents a part of the linguistic analysis of the British and American editions of two parts of “Harry Potter”, published with an 8-year interval. In the light of the corpus studies of the English language of Britain and America a number of editorial language changes are considered in the American version. The analysis shows a significant reduction in lexical and grammatical substitutions in the edition of the later book, while spelling and some morphological substitutions are permanent.

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• Published: October 1, 2017.

Keywords

• региональное литературное издание
• региональный вариант языка
• корпусный анализ
• редакционное изменение
• regional literary edition
• regional variant of language
• corpus analysis
• editorial change

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