List of publications on a keyword: «US Armed Forces»

The relevance of the topic of this publication is preconditioned by the importance of theoretical and practical development of issues related to intercultural communication. The object of this study is the US military professional lingo. The subject area of this scientific research embraces persistent speech formulas of the US subcultural milieu, typical of metaphoricity. This study is exemplified in English based on the analytical-descriptive method, the method of continuous sampling of illustrative material, and elements of intentional and contextual analysis.

The current study’s purpose is to unveil the correlation between the phenomena of «culture», «language», «society» and «socio-professional group». This research focuses on the military cliché interpreted as a productive linguistic mechanism for explicating ethnic stereotypes of the US army subculture.

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.