Vocabulary

Probably the major differences between British and American English lies in the choice of vocabulary. Some words mean different things in the two varieties for example:

AmE	BrE	AmE	BrE
Apartment	flat	movies	cinema
Attorney	lawyer	pants	trousers
baggage	luggage	pullman	Sleeper (спальный вагон)
billion	milliard	railroad	railway
cab	taxi	sailsman, clerk	shopassistant
downtown	City/town centre	schedule	timetable
drugstore	Chemist’s	subway	underground
elevator	lift	ticket office	booking office
fall	autumn	to be sick	to be ill
gas	petrol	trial lawyer	advocate
highway	motorway	truck	lorry
intersection	Cross-road	trunk	boot (багажник)
Living room	Drawing room	1st floor	ground floor
Long-distance bus	coach	2nd floor	1st floor
corporation	company	3rd floor	2nd floor
mail	post

The difference in grammar:

Grammar	AmE	BrE
Future simple tense	“Will” in all cases	“Shall” for the first person
Question and negative sentence	With “do, does, did” in all cases: Do you have receipt?	Without do for the word “have”: have you a receipt?
Prepositions	on the weekend, on a team, on time	at the weekend, in a team, in time

The difference in measure units: 1 fluid ounce (fl oz) – 29,57мл (AmE), 28,4 мл (BrE); 1 gallon (gal) 3,785л (AmE), 4,546л (BrE).

Idiolect. The individual language of everyone, what it is that one is a native speaker of. It is an individual’s idiolect that makes recognition (by old friends, family etc.) possible. Neutralizing of individual idiolect towards the standard language is normally achieved through education. Complete neutralization does not happen, which explain why even highly educated native speakers still disagree with one another on grammatically judgments [1, pp.61].

Glossary

English	Russian	Kazakh
sub-dialects.	Подвиды диалекта
patois	Патуа, локально ограниченная речь
argots	арго

Student's individual work:

1. Make an individual research of dialects in English speaking countries, find more examples of dialects, idiolects.

Office Hours:

1.Thedifficulties of translation of dialects, idiolects.

2. Watching the video on difference of accents of English speaking countries and reviling their origin.

Literature:

Main

Alan Davies. A glossary of applied linguistics. Edinburg university press.- 2005

Zdenek Salzmann. Language, culture, and society. An introduction to linguistic anthropology. Third editions. – Westview Press, 2004, Pp. 30-37.

Additional

Barry J.Blake. Secret language. Oxford University Press. -2010.

БондарчукГ.Г., БураяЕ.А. Основные различия между Британским и Американским. Учебное пособие, М.,

2008г.

Kazakh American University HAND-OUTS Discipline – Practical work on Culture of Speech Communication Academic year : 2013 - 2014 Number of credits – 2 Department “General Education and Humanities” Practical lesson11-12: «Jargon in speech communication» Translation Studies Students 2-year Academic Professor- G.M. Kassymova