Abstract
This article attempts to give a brief overview of the research on the vocabulary of alcohol intoxication in linguistics, from the earliest lexicographic research by amateur linguists to the scientific work of specialists in the field of cognitive linguistics. Since the invention of the first intoxicating drinks in the 6th millennium BC, the topic of drinking has played an important role in social relations. The consequences of alcohol consumption, positive or negative, are largely reflected in the rich vocabulary of the feast, alcoholic beverages and alcohol intoxication, affecting both individual words and phraseological units in many human languages. There is even a certain cultural and linguistic universality of this phenomenon. Consequently, alcohol intoxication is a multidimensional, multifaceted and widespread phenomenon in the language space. Alcohol consumption is a socially significant phenomenon in the modern world; this phenomenon has multiple nominations in the language. The topic of alcohol and its use is a unique area of traditional language word creation. However, research in linguistics on the topic of alcohol consumption is limited only to consideration of certain aspects of the topic or its paremiological implementation, and does not contain a comprehensive linguistic analysis of the thematic space of the language that characterizes the sphere of alcohol consumption. Work in this field is usually limited to characterizing one aspect of individual words and expressions. The mentioned above raises interest in the study of the vocabulary. The formation of many words and phrases in this conceptual field in a variety of languages stimulates the steady interest of linguists in the alcoholic vocabulary.
Keywords
Lexicography, conceptual metaphor, lexicon, alcohol intoxication, cognitive science.