BRITISH MILITARY SLANG: THE INFLUENCE OF WORLD WAR I

The turn of the XX century sees an increase of interest in the armed forces of NATO, in particular in the armed forces of the United States and its closed military partners. Among the reasons for this is global instability caused by the interventions of western countries’ coalitions in Central Asia, the Middle East and Northern Africa. This provides the background for linguists’ and interpreters’ attention being paid to the military vocabulary of English. The World War I is of interest not only as one of the largest armed conflicts of all time, but also as an event that created an environment conducive to the intensive development of military communications between various countries (and, together with this, language and culture). The World War I had an unprecedented influence on the development of the slang of the British armed forces. The development of British military slang in the course of the World War I is considered. Lexical units of British military slang of the time are examined and analyzed. They are classified t thematically. A conclusion is made on the influence of massive scale armed conflicts on the development of military slang.

military slang, military jargon, English language, British Armed Forces, military term, World War I, cultural linguistics