  Present work contains a method to obtain Jackson and Stechkin type
inequalities of approximation by integral functions of finite degree (IFFD) in
some variable exponent Lebesgue space of real functions defined on
$\boldsymbol{R}:=\left( -\infty ,+\infty \right) $. To do this we employ a
transference theorem which produce norm inequalities starting from norm
inequalities in $\mathcal{C}(\boldsymbol{R})$, the class of bounded uniformly
continuous functions defined on $\boldsymbol{R}$. Let $B\subseteq
\boldsymbol{R}$ be a measurable set, $p\left( x\right) :B\rightarrow \lbrack
1,\infty )$ be a measurable function. For the class of functions $f$ belonging
to variable exponent Lebesgue spaces $L_{p\left( x\right) }\left(B\right) $ we
consider difference operator $\left( I-T_{\delta }\right) ^{r}f\left( \cdot
\right) $ under the condition that $p(x)$ satisfies the Log H\"{o}lder
continuity condition and $1\leq \mathop{\rm ess \; inf}\limits\nolimits_{x\in
B}p(x)$, $\mathop{\rm ess \; sup}\limits\nolimits_{x\in B}p(x)<\infty $ where
$I$ is the identity operator, $r\in \mathrm{N}:=\left\{ 1,2,3,\cdots \right\}
$, $\delta \geq 0$ and \begin{equation*} T_{\delta }f\left( x\right)
=\frac{1}{\delta }\int\nolimits_{0}^{\delta }f\left( x+t\right) dt )
\end{equation*} is the forward Steklov operator. We obtain main properties of
difference operator $\left\Vert \left( I-T_{\delta }\right) ^{r}f\right\Vert
_{p\left( \cdot \right) }$ in $L_{p\left( x\right) }\left( B\right) .$ We give
proof of direct and inverse theorems of approximation by IFFD in $L_{p\left(
x\right) }\left( \boldsymbol{R}\right). $
