LEXICAL PECULIARITIES OF DESIGNATION OF WEAPONS AND MILITARY EQUIPMENT OF RUSSIA AND NATO MEMBER STATES

Abstract

The topicality of the research is laid down in the increased interest of linguists in the military nominations and their actualization in the mass media. The issue of studying military artifacts from the perspective of Cultural Linguistic has been poorly investigated by now. The article deals with issues being at the crossroads of Linguistics, Cultural Linguistics and military disciplines. During the research work the author carried out a comparative analysis of various types of weapons and military equipment. Having combined all the names of military artifacts into thematic groups according to their functions, the author highlighted firearms, armoured vehicles, military aircraft and warships. The article concludes that there is a connection between the name and the acquired designation of military artifact based on technical characteristics, external similarity and internal qualities. Principles of nomination depend upon the peculiarities of the geographic and social environment, value orientations, ethnic and cultural specifics and historical events. The considerate attention is paid to the study of the weapon names containing precedent phenomena.