Metaphorical Nomination of Politicians in Russian and English

The article deals with transferred meanings of the nouns denoting subjects of professional activity (zhandarm, lavochnik, myasnik, soldat, axeman, executioner, slavedriver, sportsman, etc.) in Russian and English political communication. Research material was selected from the National Russian Corpus and the Oxford English Corpus. Special attention is paid in the article to the identification and modeling of the structure of knowledge lying at the basis of metaphorization.В статье рассматриваются переносные значения имен существительных с семантикой субъекта трудовой деятельности в русскоязычной и англоязычной политической коммуникации