Russian and English lexemes of the drug addicts' slang as tropes

Among a great number of social evils and people's misfortunes drug addiction takes the first place. It is also a big anti-value of mankind. The study of Russian and English lexemes of the drug addicts' slang aims to revivify the world value of citizens. Russian and English lexemes of the drug addicts' slang are studied in the present work. The importance of this article is that the comparative study of Russian and English lexemes of the drug addicts' slang as tropes was conducted for the first time. The report tells about the types of cognitive substantive models typical for lexemes of the drug addicts' slang as tropes, which are formed by metaphoric and metonymical transfer. Such cognitive substantive models as anthropic, animalistic, artifact, technical, botanical, spatial, chemical, medical and culinary are assigned. The analyzed material allows eliciting the universal, the general and the equivalent for the compared languages. The value of this work is that its results will be applied for the further study of Russian and English lexemes of the drug addicts' slang

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