Slangisms in modern ukrainian mass media 

Abstract.

SLANGISMS IN MODERN UKRAINIAN MASS MEDIA

Oleksandr Styshov

Department of the Ukrainian Language, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Abstract

Background: In recent decades, substandard vocabulary in the Ukrainian language has been developing extremely dynamically and not only enriches the colloquial style, but also penetrates other functional varieties - especially actively in the mass media. We believe that among all social dialectisms, slangisms are insufficiently studied, which determines the relevance of this article. Also, slang units need to be recorded, properly interpreted and lexicographically processed.

Purpose: to provide a new definition of the term "slang" and outline its differences from jargon, interjargon, and argot, as well as to analyze the main sources of slang replenishment in the modern Ukrainian language.

Results: The article is devoted to a new interpretation of the term "slang" and the limitation of its difference from jargon, interjargon and argo. The material for scientific research was more than 80 sociolect units selected from texts of various genres of Ukrainian electronic and printed mass media of the beginning of the 21st century, from lexicons of sociolect words, as well as from the largest authoritative lexicographic works. We believe that slang is an open and relatively stable for a certain period linguistic subsystem of lexical and phraseological units of living spoken non-literary language, which, due to their distribution among a significant circle of speakers of a certain ethnic group. and hence significant general knowledge, is already on the verge of entering the literary colloquial vocabulary. The main sources of replenishment and enrichment of slang are identified and analyzed - computer, military, transport, sports, youth jargon, as well as thieves' and criminal argo. It is proven that in the Ukrainian language the dynamics of such a chain constantly occurs: jargonism first passes into interjargon, then into colloquial non-literary words and finally - to correspond to literary and codified vocabulary.

Discussion: The process of development of Ukrainian slang in its numerous varieties, in particular in the mass media, testifies to the active functioning of the Ukrainian language in many spheres of life. The existence of the analyzed formations proves that the language remains a dynamic system that is constantly living and developing. The main sources of enrichment of slang are identified - computer, military, transport, sports, youth jargon, as well as thieves' and criminal argot. We see the prospect of further research in the functional-stylistic analysis of various slangisms in mass media and artistic discourses.

Keywords: language, mass media, media language, slang, jargon, substandard vocabulary.

Vitae

Oleksandr Styshov, doctor of philological sciences, professor, professor of the Ukrainian language department, Kyiv Metropolitan University named after Boris Grinchenko, MES of Ukraine (Kyiv). Scientific interests: lexicology, word formation, semantics, phraseology.

Correspondence: styshov@ukr.net 

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