Pedagogy, Psychology, Society: from theory to practice
- Authors:
- Elena S. Glazyrina, Oksana A. Bragina, Raniia Z. Salimova
- Work direction:
- Филология в системе образования
- Abstract:
- The paper presents the results of an etymological study of the names of Russian military equipment and weapons, based on botanical and floral metaphors. The examples of the use of floral vocabulary in relation to the types of the Russian Federation weaponry and their use in the media are analyzed. The linguistic mechanisms underlying the functioning of this metaphor are analyzed and described.
- Keywords:
- metaphor, military equipment names, metaphorization, botanical metaphor, floral metaphor