Keyword: «youth slang»

The article deals with the problem of teenage slang. It is extremely relevant for many scientific areas: for age psychology, since the special language created by teenagers, which is a kind of pass into their world, is at the same time one of the reasons for misunderstanding between adolescents and adults; for linguistics, since adolescence is most characterized by a creative approach to life, and it is teenage slang that is currently one of the most interesting language subsystems. In the social aspect, teenage slang is a very interesting phenomenon. At its core, it is a code language that is the key to understanding the world of teenagers.

The relevance of the work is based on the need to study a lexical space of the modern Russian language and to describe trends that form a speech portrait of contemporary youth. Semantics and etymology of slang words are analyzed via the method of interview that has been conducted with the first-year students of Tambov State Technical University. The article aims at analyzing the key mechanisms of youth slang functioning based on students’ lexicon, revealing the sources of its replenishment, defining the most frequently used jargon words and finding out the reasons for their use by university students. The material of this study may be useful for linguists, sociologists, copywriters, psychologists and other specialists.

The article examines the origin of slang expressions and their meaning in modern culture. Creating a classification of slang depending on their etymology. As well as the analysis of modern words and idioms used in slang and their further classification.