Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philologyVestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology2542-04452712-8946Samara National Research University460710.18287/2542-0445-2016-22-3.2-208-212UnknownMETONYMICAL NOMINATION OF THE SUBJECT IN COLLOQUIAL LANGUAGEChernyavskayaN. A.morenov.sv@ssau.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097Samara National Researh University02032016223.22082120106201701062017Copyright © 2016, Chernyavskaya N.A.2016<p>In the article metonymical nominations of the subject in colloquiallanguage are investigated. Cognitive, referential and pragmatic factorsdetermining the specificity of profiling of significant component ofsituation are considered. It is established that profiling of the place orobject of action is caused by requirement to characterize the personin functional and activity aspect. Profiling of process or state isconnected with need of expression of a subjective-modal assessment.At the same time such parameters as definiteness / uncertainty andsingularity / plurality of the referent have crucial importance.</p>cognitive mechanism, metonymy, profiling, reference, subject.когнитивный механизм, метонимия, профилирование, референция, субъект.[1. Maslova Zh.N., Popova E.A. Problema razgranicheniia kognitivnykh protsessov, mekhanizmov, operatsii [The problem of delimitation of cognitive processes, mechanisms and operations]. In: Inostrannye iazyki v kontekste mezhkul’turnoi kommunikatsii [Foreign languages in the context of cross-cultural communication]. Saratov: ITs «Nauka», 2015, pp. 80–84 [in Russian].][2. Arutyunova N.D. Iazyk i mir cheloveka [Language and the world of human]. M.: Iazyki russkoi kul’tury, 1999, 896 p. [in Russian].][3. Lakoff G., Johnson M. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 1980, 242 p. [in English].][4. Iliukhina N.A. O tipologii leksicheskoi metonimii v svete kognitivnogo printsipa [On the typology of lexical metonymy in the light of cognitive principle]. Vestnik Samarskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta [Vestnik of Samara State University], 2015, no. 7(129), pp. 36–48 [in Russian].]