DICHOTOMOUS DYADS OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS AS A MEANS TO EXTEND KEY VALUES OF THE MILITARY SUBCULTURE

Abstract

This paper dwells on the worldview specifics of the military subculture representatives as reflected by dichotomous dyads of phraseological units. Given the phraseological fund is the main material for analysis of a national mindset specifics, the authors emphasize that ethnic phraseology and socially-marked military phraseology have a great deal in common. Phraseological imagery makes it possible to consider peculiarities of the military personnel’s worldview, to reveal moral attitudes and values of the military. Contemporary linguistics stresses out the need for a comprehensive study of the military subculture mentality as an integral part of the national culture. This issue has defined the authors’ aspiration to record the system of spiritual and moral dominants of the military ethos on the basis of socially-marked dichotomous dyads of phraseology. The cognitive field of “War” military idiomatics includes phrases reflecting ideals and anti-samples of military subculture, the spectrum of approved and reprehensible behavior, as well as military lore singularities. The national language phraseological units, extending key values of the military subculture as a nuclear component of the military society, register professional dominants and obvious anti-values of the military milieu. This article concludes that socially-marked phraseological units with special symbolic potential possess explicit evaluation and expression, and reflect stereotypes of mass linguistic consciousness.