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The article considers the categorical modeling of the sublanguage of homeopathy. The sublanguage of a professional area of knowledge and/or activity is a means of verbalizing its notions, concepts and categories, and serves as a form of creation, interpretation, storage and communication of special knowledge.

The article focuses on different approaches to categorization and deals with the study of cognitive aspects of modus (interpretative) category of tonality as a means of expressing the speaker’s subjective attitude to the facts of the objective reality. The complicated structure and methods of realization of tonality are shown on the example of journalistic discourse of the English language.

There are different approaches to distinguishing between proper names and nominal names. in this article it is proposed to consider this problem from the standpoint of cognitive linguistics, namely within the framework of the theory of prototypes. The application of this approach led to the introduction of the term "onychic conversion".