PROPER NAME IN MILITARY SOCIETY:COGNITIVE FEATURES OF THE EXISTENCE OF PERIPHERAL ONIMS

Currently, in connection with the priority role of officers and enlisted personnel in protecting and maintaining the security of the state, there is an increased interest in society in various issues of the life of military society, in particular the peculiarities of communication of the language personality of its representative. This article presents the results of an analysis of the cognitive features of the existence of proper names belonging to the periphery of the onomastic field of military society, such as onomastic homonymy, repeated actualization and iconic representation of proper names. The material for the study was a naming card index, which includes more than 2,400 units collected from open sources and by direct interviewing of Russian servicemen. The author examines the main features of cognitive military onomastics, and also consistently provides examples of the formation of a nomination, intracategorical and intercategorical homonymy, and the return of a proper name in a new meaning. The results of a quantitative and qualitative analysis of card index units are demonstrated based on the way they symbolically convey knowledge about the world. Based on the analysis, the author concluded that onyms-symbols dominate and the number of icons and indices is minimal. The identified features of the cognitive existence of proper names indicate the complex nature of the language personality of a representative of a military society’s perception of objects of reality and the pragmatism of the choice of linguistic units for the purpose of forming a nomination. The results of the study allow us to study in more detail the language personality of a representative of the Russian army and navy, and can be used to conduct seminars and special courses on onomastics, sociolinguistics and linguocultu-rology in both civilian and military universities. The experience presented is also important for further research in the field of onomastics, sociolinguistics and linguoculturology.