SOCIOCULTURAL MARKING OF LEXICAL UNITS OF YOUTH SOCIOLECT

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the sociocultural marking of lexemes in the youth sociolect. The urgency of its problem lies in the lack of sufficient study of both this sociolect and the ways of its social and cultural marking. In sociolectology, groups of words that have a connection with the subculture of youth have not yet been identified and described.

The researchers describe the cultural patterns of youth behavior, but the question of the cultural and connotative meaning of the slang is still open. They focus on the determinism of the youth sociolect lexical units, which is manifested in the presence of words-symbols in it as a means of self-expression, as well as in the use of words with additional connotative and pragmatic connotations.

The purpose of the article is to study the words-symbols, indicating their belonging to the carriers. The material of the study is the socio-culturally determined units of the youth sociolect.

The sociolinguistic and associative experiments using the observation method, and a contextual linguo-pragmatic analysis of the word were carried out.

The novelty of this study lies in the fact that for the first time the youth sociolect is considered within the framework of an integral methodological paradigm; the connection of the language of youth with its subculture and the social structure of society is revealed.

The results of the study are of theoretical significance, its practical value is in enriching the fund of substandard material, in the possibility of using it in the process of conducting seminars, special courses.

Conclusions were drawn about the determinism of the lexical units of the youth sociolect, which is manifested in the presence of words-symbols in it as means and methods of self-expression, as well as in the use of words with connotative and pragmatic meanings.