SPECIFIC SLANG SEMIOTIC FEATURES

The article is devoted to the research of the American slang specific semiotic features on the basis of synonymic rows, such as drunk, harlot, death, die. Each of them secures and defines more precisely its specific features, makes its inherent peculiarities more concrete in the process of categorization and conceptualization. It takes place because people need precise nomination of all notions they deal with in everyday life and work for more successful and monosemantic communication. This point is readily confirmed by the illustrating examples. The attention is paid to the differentiation of meanings and senses in slang synonyms in contrast with standard units which testifies to the fact of cognitive mastering of previously unobserved ties and relations. The specific fact of synonyms is emphasized to attach flexibility and elasticity to the language in conveying fine shades of senses and emotive and sensual states of a person, high expressivity and axiology of slang units which is a characteristic feature of their sign function in accumulating and conveying information. Proceeding from this analysis one can notice interconnection of both cognitive and pragmatic aspects of expressive, emotional and intensive meanings of the slang synonyms