The aim of the study is to identify the structural and semantic features of the process of depersonalization of a human being as a denotatum and its forms according to the data of Russian youth jargon. A brief overview of works related to the subject of study is given. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that depersonalization based on Russian youth jargon is considered and described for the first time from the standpoint of structural and semantic analysis. The scientific novelty is also determined by the fact that there are currently no studies of depersonalization based on social dialects. The article examines about 600 nouns taken from dictionaries of Russian youth jargon. In the course of the work, the author’s classification of types of depersonalization existing in the Russian youth non-normative language was compiled, cognitive metaphors underlying depersonalized names of a person were identified, and lexical-semantic groups related to the concept of a “depersonalized person” were distinguished. The results showed that 8 types of depersonalization are characteristic of Russian youth jargon, the most common of which are “objectification” and “faunonymization”. In the process of analysis, 16 types of cognitive metaphor were discovered, forming the figurative potential of jargon units acting as depersonalizers. The study of the thematic organization of the language material revealed 14 lexical-semantic groups, which, depending on the quantitative parameters, are included in one of the parts (core, middle layer, near and far periphery) of the general thematic field of depersonalized names of a person.
Е. А. Хомяков (Wed,) studied this question.