Military Slang in the Context of Ethnic Stereotyping
The article touches upon the social-group dialect as a linguistic means of realization of the US military ethnic stereotyping. The study of the linguo-cultural phenomenon reveals both group and individual world perception mechanisms of the military, identifies the system of moral values as well as r...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
2014-12-01
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Series: | Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN |
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Online Access: | http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/9455 |
Summary: | The article touches upon the social-group dialect as a linguistic means of realization of the US military ethnic stereotyping. The study of the linguo-cultural phenomenon reveals both group and individual world perception mechanisms of the military, identifies the system of moral values as well as reflects typical features the verbal portrait of the US Armed Forces military collective image. Based on authentic lexical and phraseological items of the military jargon, a stereotype classification of the collective image of the US servicemen has been presented. |
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ISSN: | 2312-9182 2312-9212 |