BalashovaLyubovViktorovnaCountry: RussiaCompany: Saratov State University named after N. G. Chernyshevsky, Russia, 410012, Saratov, Astrakhanskaya street, 83 Position: Professor, Chair of the Theory and History of Language and Applied LinguisticsScientific degree: Doctor of Philological SciencesE-mail: sarteorlingv@yandex.ru Author's articles Russian Metaphor in Diachrony: Major Trends in the Development of Transfers in the Object Sphere Presentation of the Book The Place of Metaphor in the Representation of Concepts (Based on the Concept of ‘Neighbor’) Metaphorization of Social Lexis in the Russian Jargons of the End of the 20th – the Beginning of the 21st centuries