Odezhda yavlyaetsya istochnikom svedeniy ne tol"ko o byte naroda, no i o lingvisticheskikh tendentsiyakh, obuslovlennykh kak yazykovymi, tak i ekstralingvisticheskimi faktorami. Naibolee informativnoy yavlyaetsya voennaya formennaya odezhda. Nastoyashchaya monografiya posvyashchena ustanovleniyu obshchikh i individual"nykh chert v soderzhanii leksicheskikh edinits, oboznachayushchikh voennuyu formu, v russkom i frantsuzskom yazykakh i opredeleniyu tipologicheskoy blizosti sopostavlyaemykh yazykov. V monografii vveden v nauchnyy oborot polnyy korpus naimenovaniy voennoy formennoy odezhdy v russkom i frantsuzskom yazykakh, vydeleny osnovnye tipy naimenovaniy, provedeno ikh strukturno-komponentnoe opisanie, kolichestvennoe i kachestvennoe mezh"yazykovoe sravnenie. V issledovanii predstavlena individual"naya skhema analiza ot ustanovleniya semanticheskikh komponentov, sostavlyayushchikh denotativnye znacheniya issleduemykh naimenovaniy, i kategorizatsii issleduemoy denotativnoy sfery do ustanovleniya tipicheskikh priznakov i kolichestvennogo i kachestvennogo sravneniya s pomoshch"yu semanticheskikh formul. Material raboty mozhet nayti primenenie v kursakh po leksikologii, sravnitel"noy tipologii, spetskursakh i spetsseminarakh, a takzhe pri sostavlenii slovarey.