MAIN PROBLEMS AND FEATURES OF MODERN VARIANTOLOGY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article is devoted to a comprehensive study of the main problems and features of the modern versionology of the English language. The scientific novelty of research is seen in the fact that today language variantology is one of the priority directions in linguistics and in most cases, the object of studying this area is exactly English. The purpose of this work is to identify the main approaches to the definition of national language options. The definitions of the language community and language situation are considered. On the basis of sociolinguistic analysis, it has been established that the study of a specific national language variant is identified with the establishment of its specificity.

Keywords

• national language
• language situation
• language community
• dialect
• language variant
• variantology
• национальный язык
• языковая ситуация
• языковое сообщество
• диалект
• вариант языка
• вариантология