Zoomorphic Nominations of <i>Homo Socialis</i> in Russian Language Dictionaries, Literature and Newspaper Discourses
The problem of inclusion zoomorphic nominations characterizing a person as a member of institutional interaction in the social vocabulary of the Russian language is considered. The research urgency is caused by the absence at present of a comprehensive description of the social vocabulary of the Russian language and methods of its detection. By example of the lexical-semantic group with the meaning “Zoomorphic nominations of homo socialis ” it is shown that social semantics can be assertive and in presuppositional. Based on the analysis of the secondary nominations, phraseological units and their representation in the dictionaries of the Russian language, literature and newspaper discourses it is shown how social semes are actualized in core meaning, at the near and far periphery. The social seme is defined. There are three nomination subgroups in studied lexical-semantic group: linguistic units, whose social seme is presented in assertion (1), semantic presuppositions (2) and pragmatic presuppositions (3). It is shown that the zoomorphic nominations of social semantics reflect negative characteristics of the person as a rule, belong to different linguistic strata, full with new words, do not have a systemic reflection in lexicographic sources.