Mobility as a US Cultural Concept (on the Material of Learner’s Dictionaries of English and the XXI Century American English Phrasal Innovations).

Abstract

As it has been demonstrated in a number of studies, in modern linguoculture of the American nation’s representatives Americanism acts as a basic concept in the hierarchy of key cultural concepts. Functioning of Americanism in the American English language variant is not limited to lingual characteristics only, for in the US political ideology, in their social, cultural and religious spheres the concept in question coexists with such key notions and phenomena as, for instance, patriotism, equality, American way of life, democracy, Protestantism.