THE STUDY OF FEMININE AND MASCULINE NAMES IN ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN SUB-STANDARD VOCABULARY: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem that is relevant for today's society and for today's science of language - the problem of the nomination of men and women in sub-standard vocabulary. The inextricable link between culture and language reflects the linguistic picture of the world of any people, which undoubtedly arouses great interest in the study of the characteristics, stereotypes and behavior of the two sexes. Vocabulary is a layer of the language that stores the socio-historical experience of the people. In this article, the author describes the influence of vocabulary, namely substandard vocabulary, on the formation of the language picture of the world of the nation. The author gives different views of researchers and gives a generalized description of the term "sub-standard". A sub-standard lexical unit is an element of the language, characterized by figurative and stylistic coloring and reflects in the mentality of the speakers of a particular language, as it is associated with live communication. That is why the study of sub-standard vocabulary today is of particular relevance, being one of the components of the formation of a linguistic picture of the world. The main content of the study is a comparative analysis of the names of female and male persons in the sub-standard of the English and Russian languages. The article describes the frequently used types of metaphorical transfer of the nominations "man" / "woman" in the substandard vocabulary of the compared languages. The author studied the dictionaries of the English language "NTC's Thematic Dictionary of American Slang" and the Russian language "Russian Fenya". The choice of dictionaries is justified by the fact that these dictionaries contain colloquial vocabulary, which is often used in the speech of native speakers. Based on the analysis of the names of female and male persons selected from these dictionaries, the author made conclusions on the topic under study.