REGIONAL LANGUAGE VARIABILITY IN THE BRITISH AND AMERICAN EDITIONS OF "HARRY POTTER"
Fraiman Vasilii Evgen'evich
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
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.
Key words and phrases: 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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