On the issue of social differentiation of phraseological units in respect to the age criterion (on the basis of American English material)
On the issue of social differentiation of phraseological units in respect to the age criterion (on the basis of American English material) The article presents an attempt to analyse basic groups of American Englishphraseological unitsin the view of their social differentiation with regard to the speaker’s age. Particular attention has been given to the main sources and the most productive ways of forming new phraseological units in the speech of children, teenagers and college students.