Distinctive features of english language variants for non-native speakers
Abstract
The concept of a variant of a language as a non-native one is considered in the work. In relation to the English language as a language of global distribution, such a variant appears as an exonormative idiom of the Expanding circle, according to B. Kachru's theory of three concentric circles. The variant is based on its linguoculturological substantiation and traces of native language transference, the degree of manifestation of which depends on the type of the lectal level of the bilingual continuum (basilect, mesolect and acrolect). The typification and consistency of linguistic deviations revealed in the mesolect and acrolect speech of the society are the features of the variant that distinguish it from the individual's interlanguage