Romanova Valeria Vladimirovna

Place of work

Organization:
FSOMEI of HE "Military University" of the Ministry of Defense of Russian Federation
Degree:
candidate of philological sciences

Author's articles(2)

US Army is Family metaphorical model within the context of the military-political discourse (as exemplified in English)

10.04.2017

Annotation

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.
more

Idiosyncratic featues of the US Аrmy subculture socio-cultural dialect

10.04.2017

Annotation

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.
more