INVESTIGATION OF THE COLLOQUIAL FORMATION OF MODERN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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ABSTRACT

The article raises questions related to the multidimensionality of the problem of studying the colloquial layer of the English language as a promising area of modern linguistics. The investigation reveals research in the field of lexical, derivational, grammatical features of colloquial British, American English, based on the foreign experience of leading experts in the study of slangisms, colloquialisms and other concepts correlated with the substandard. The article focuses on the fact that colloquialisms are becoming an integral part of the active vocabulary of the English language in connection with the processes of language integration. The author of this work believes that the study of various aspects of colloquial vocabulary, taking into account cultural, gender, sociological, cognitive characteristics, becomes an urgent problem in connection with the annual replenishment of lexicographic sources with new colloquialisms. The article reveals some features of terminology, standardization of studies of English colloquialisms, considering linguistic and extralinguistic factors, reveals the role of lexicographic sources in the analysis of the substandard lexicon of individual subcultures and socially marked colloquialisms with a specific professional community.

Keywords: colloquialisms, substandard dictionaries, spoken layer of the English language, emotionally-expressive coloring, colloquial system, slangisms.