PARTICULARITIES OF BRITISH MILITARY TERMS THAT HAVE BEEN ASSIMILATED BY THE COMMON LANGUAGE
PARTICULARITIES OF BRITISH MILITARY TERMS THAT HAVE BEEN ASSIMILATED BY THE COMMON LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: The military terminology, representing the totality of terminological unities included in military dictionaries and used by the specialized literature: doctrines, regulations, manuals etc. and the totality of lexemes used in informal communication within the military setting, is in a continuous interaction with both the common and specialized languages. Military terms, especially those emerging from historical events that have influenced the whole society or the entire language community, have been assimilated by the common use of languages, in their denotative meanings or bearing slightly nuanced meanings. Starting from the particular case of British English, through the current paper, we aimed at analyzing the influence of military lexemes on the common language. In this respect, we built the corpus of our research by collecting those terms of military origin included in one of the most relevant dictionary of British English (Schur, 1987), then analyzed them from the perspective of their assimilation by the common language, in relation with Algeo’ s (1980) reference study.

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