THE INDEX OF INVECTIVE: BETWEEN LINGUISTICS AND LAW (BASED ON THE LEXICAL-SEMANTIC GROUP OF ZOOLOGICAL METAPHOR «VILLAINY»)

Abstract

The paper presents a theoretical basis of the possibility of using the results of the linguistic experiment to determine the index of invective zoometafor- invective in law linguistics. Also, the results of such a linguistic experiment are presented and the main features associated with the difference in the index values of different social groups are identified. It affected the legal, linguistic and social aspects of existence invective lexicon for example zoometafors therefore presented study can be classified as interdisciplinary.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2218-7405-2013-10-10

Keywords

• metaphor, zoological metaphor (zoometaphor), invective, insult, the index of invective, injective potential, the seme of invective