COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN MILITARY TERMINOLOGY
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN MILITARY TERMINOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: Having the intention of a compared study of the English, British and American military terminology, it is necessary to understand the characteristics and place of this terminology in each of the two cultural areas covered by our analysis, i.e. how the mutual influence of specialized terminology is felt on the two terminological corpora. There is no complete dictionary and current of British, English and American military terminology, for such a dictionary is impossible to draft. If customary military terms, the expressions, including those in military slang are mutually translatable, once we bring into discussion different military structures and different habitus, we cannot compare British military acronyms system with the American military ones. Furthermore, adding the recent international events, the trend towards globalization, the existence of NATO and the need for standardization in the use of English, the experience in the theatres and so on, with a equalizing and levelling role at the common language level, but that allows the creation of further ample openness to the world of slang terms, in what the system of abbreviations means, the picture of the current situation on terminological differences becomes more complex and almost impossible to clarify

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