LEXICAL AND PHONETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE’S SPEECH
The article is devoted to the identification and systematization of sociolinguistic features of the speech of young representatives of the British royal family. The analysis was carried out on the basis of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge interview. Certain lexical and phonetic features of Prince William’s and Kate Middleton’s speech as, for example, the presence of evaluative adjectives, underestimating, overestimating, etc., were identified. These features are typical not only for members of the English monarchy, but also for the aristocracy in general. The article also shows the differences between the speech of the older generation of British monarchs and younger representatives of this class.