Romanova Valeria Vladimirovna

this study is intended to unveil a correlation between metaphorical images of the US Armed Forces and ethnic stereotypes of the army subculture within the Anglophone military-political discourse. The US Army is Family metaphorical model serves as a foundation for analyzing ethnic stereotypes of mass perception of the socio-professional environment of service members. According to the authors, metaphorical modeling is perceived as a linguistic means of explication of ethnic stereotypes attributed to the US Army subculture.

this article focuses on revealing salient features typical of the socio-cultural dialect of the US Army subculture. It concludes that the military slang is perceived as an integral part of the army idiom mosaic, allowing to get into the essence of the collective and individual worldview of servicemen, as well as to identify the system of spiritual and moral values and priorities of the military.