TY - JOUR AU - Kuznetsova, Elena PY - 2021/11/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Metaphor in Contemporary American Slang: Sociocultural Aspect JF - International Journal of Social Sciences: Current and Future Research Trends JA - IJSSCFRT VL - 12 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ijsscfrtjournal.isrra.org/index.php/Social_Science_Journal/article/view/905 SP - 45-47 AB - <p>Linguistics in recent years increasingly turns to the study of a living spoken language, officially standing outside the accepted, standard literary canons.&nbsp; A special place in the formation of slang expressions is occupied by metaphors, which are often associated with the socio-cultural context. There are a number of slang metaphors that require cultural background information to interpret correctly; one can distinguish slangisms that have a general relevance to a given culture, as well as slangisms reflecting the cultural values of a certain subculture within the dominant culture; it is possible to classify groups of culturally connotated slangisms depending on the area to which they belong. Cultural allusions can be names of popular brands, advertising slogans, etc.</p> ER -