COGNITIVE-IDEOGRAPHICAL CLASSIFICATION OF RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH DRUG ADDICTS’ SLANG

Abstract

Representation of cognitive sphere and revealing ideographical characteristics of emotive vocabulary and phraseology of Russian and English drug addicts’ slang determine the topicality of the theme and article’s problematics. It allows discovering and to describe the drug addicts’ lexical and socio-cultural world. In this article, the main activity and the interests of people belonging to this socio-cultural society are classified into four groups: ‘business’, ‘pleasure’, ‘illness’ and ‘result’. These groups show the main characteristics of drug addicts’ slang manifesting as an emotional attitude to reality that describes the antivaluable axiology of drug addicts’ outlook. Purpose. The purpose of this article is a systematic and comparative description of Russian and English drug addicts’ slang in the aspects of their socio-linguistic characteristics. Methodology. The basis of the research is the typological description of the analyzing material; the method of partial selection of words and phrases from the dictionaries of slang; the examination of components; cognitive and ideographical modeling. Results. The results of the study are that the new classification aimed at characterizing Russian and English drug addicts’ slang is offered. The view on the semantic structure of emotive units of drug addicts’ slang and its affective aspects of linguistic personality is specified. Practical implications. The results of the study can be applied in the sphere of social dialectology, lexicology, phraseology and axio-linguistics.

Keywords

• русский и английский жаргон наркоманов
• эмотивность
• наркомания
• идеографическая группа