MODERN YOUTH SLANG AND THE USE OF SLANG DICTIONARIES

Published 2024-07-04
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES Vol. 64 No. 2 (2021)
№2 (2021)
Authors:
  • Y.A. BUZAEVA
  • A.E. SARBASSOVA
  • G.A. ERZHANOVA
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This article discusses the problem of the special kind of language, so called youth slang, gives different
approaches in modern linguistics to this phenomenon, gives the definitions of the terms such as «slang», «jargon», «sociolect» and the use of different modern slang dictionaries nowadays by young people nowadays. The presented article points out that language is constantly renewing and evolving with the speech of young people, teenagers and students, who want to have a «secret» language and communicate with their peers in a secret language that adults do not understand. In most cases, slang is borrowed from the English language, making it difficult for the «older generation» to understand. It should be noted that this kind of language is constantly in flux, with more and more new slangisms being used with the development of global technology and Internet sites. The article presents the results of a questionnaire survey conducted among students and staff of the regional newspaper «Aktobe Vestnik» on the topic of research and probability of using some slang words and slang dictionaries in speech. Examples of youth slang in English, Russian and Kazakh are also given in the article. 

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MODERN YOUTH SLANG AND THE USE OF SLANG DICTIONARIES. (2024). Scientific Journal "Bulletin of the K. Zhubanov Aktobe Regional University", 64(2). https://vestnik.arsu.kz/index.php/hab/article/view/145