British and American English
A Reciprocal Influence

Area 10 – Scienze dell'antichità, filologico-letterarie e storico-artistiche

The main goal of the study is to expound on the reciprocal influence between British and American English, primarily from a lexical point of vue, and also to delineate the sometimes considerable differences between both varieties of English. Thus, Great Britain and the United States ought to be considered two nations separated by a common language. This survey, mostly consisting of statistical analyses, can be regarded as an in–depth study of the previous work The Americanization of English (Tondi 2018). The British English lexical influence on American English is a recent trend that has been defined as the Briticisation of English, which has also been called Britspeak or Anglocreep. The book demonstrate the lexicographic influence of British English on American English vocabulary by undertaking lexicographic investigations and corpus analyses, as well.

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