Formation of American English Literary Standard and Cultural Factors

Роман Якович Крицберг Publishing house "Dionis"

Keywords: American English, cultural factors, loan, literary standard, vocabulary

Abstract

The formation of the American national literary standard had been completed by the mid-1880s. The major historical events in the 19th century – the Westward Expansion and the influence of the Frontier, immigration to the United States, the Civil War and its consequences served as crucial factors in this process. In the 17th c., Indian loans, British dialectisms and archaisms were the hallmarks of American English. In the 18th c., the number of Americanisms extended. In the 19th c., signatures of American English reached their climax both in quantity and quality.

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