THE SYSTEM OF MERONYMIC NOUNS IN MODERN ENGLISH SLANG
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The article deals with meronymic nouns beyond literary norms - in slang. The aim of the article is to identify the meronymic system of nouns in modern English slang and to establish their lexical-semantic range. The study of three hundred meronyms of modern English slang revealed four lexical-semantic groups: names of parts of the human body, names of time periods, names of substances and pieces of clothing. The most numerous of these ones are the first two: meronymic symbols of body parts that are classified as taboo words in the European culture and names of periods of illegal or socially dangerous leisure (drinking alcohol, taking drugs, being in prison, etc.). According to the results of the study, the meronymy in slang is selective, indicating that not everything in the surrounding world is divided into component parts, which are represented in the lexical system of the English slang. Only those areas of objective reality are divided and named that are important for certain social groups (taboo names for body parts, periods of entertainment and society-condemned pleasures, doses of drugs). Therefore, the meronymy in the English slang cannot be called a comprehensive category.
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