Open AccessHumorous motifs of Russian military equipment nomination
Author(s) -
Nadezhda A. Rodina
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
neofilologiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2782-5868
pISSN - 2587-6953
DOI - 10.20310/2587-6953-2019-5-19-327-336
Subject(s) - nomination , onomastics , personality , character (mathematics) , public relations , political science , sociology , law , psychology , linguistics , history , social psychology , archaeology , geometry , mathematics , philosophy
In modern national linguistics there is a set of works devoted to the description of language personalities of representatives of certain professions. However, in the last decades due to the increase of interest in the military sphere names of cadets, soldiers and officers are in the researchers’ attention centre. We also analyze names of objects of a material environment, it allows to conduct fully studying of language personality of the representative of the Armed Forces of Russian Federation as the ratio of motifs and ways of the nomination will allow to reveal features of the language personality of Russian personnel in mediated communication. We analyze the motivation features of the official names of the Russian military equipment and armor. We consider chrematonyms in terms of their belonging to humorous means of communication in military sphere. We prove application of humorous names by specifics of national character of the Russian personnel. Material of article is the corpus in the form of the glossary in the Internet and also results of the military personnel survey. The new empirical material introduction for scientific use allows to make objective and reliable conclusions on the nature of the humorous nomination in the sphere of military equipment and armor. Research material can be used both in military education, and in an elective course of onomastics in civil university.