PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS IMAGES IN LINGUISTIV WORLDVIEW OF BRITISH-AMERICAN MILITARY SUBCULTURE REPRESENTATIVES
The paper studies the images created by phraseological units in linguistic worldview of British and American military subculture representatives. Phraseological units of military social dialect, as a part of worldview of military men, include professional terms and jargonisms. They are secondary nomination units used to describe the phenomena and objects, which have their names in the literary language. Analysis of jargon phraseological units proved the abundance of the images of animals and birds (the most wide-spread are the images of a dog, a rat, a hen, a pig, a horse; most of zoomorphic units have pejorative connotations in military sociolect), parts of human body, food and colors (for example, blue symbolizes melancholy and death, red stands for danger). These phraseological units are the basis of the view of life of military men. The paper concludes that military subculture, as an inseparable part of the English-speaking nations, has its peculiar images, symbols, stereotypes and culture codes by means of which the objects are named and the images of the inner and outer worlds are created. The basis of military phraseological units are imagery systems that reveal the features of the linguistic worldview of military men, single out their moral values and help to study ethnic mentality reflected by phraseological units semantics.