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JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

STYLISTIC FEATURES OF THE ENGLISH MODERN SLANG

GULYUSA R.

ZAMALETDINOVA,

GUZEL A.

IZMAYLOVA,

MAIRA S. ZHOLSHAYEVA

Kazan Federal University, 18 Kremlevskaya Street, Kazan,

420008, Russia.

Kazan Federal University, 18 Kremlevskaya Street, Kazan,

420008, Russia.

Suleyman Demirel University, Uralsk Kazakhstan, uralsk,dostyk

street,162, Kazakhstan.

email:

Rusia@Prescopus.Com, gulyusa@inbox.ru,

m.szholshayeva2015@gmail.com

Abstract:The article studies the main linguistic and stylistic features of slang,
analyzes the main features of its functioning.The aim of the article is consideration
of the definition "slang" and ways of replenishment in various spheres of
communication in society. Slang is highly informal and is often used in colloquial
speech. It is a part of a language that is usually outside of conventional or standard
usage and that may consist of both newly coined words and phrases and of new or
extended meanings attached to established terms.This article is dedicated to a problem
of active borrowing of English words in Russian language due to a quick development
of science, technology, culture, economy and production relation.A number of
examples from different spheres is given in this article.Negative and positive sides of
this phenomenon are also analyzed in the end of the article. We used method of the
questionnaire in order to know how students use different slang words in their
everyday speech.

Keywords: English language, youth slang, slang expressions, stylistic features.

1 Introduction

Nowadays slang is an integral part of the English language.
Today, the English slang plays a major role in daily
communication among the teenagers(Abu,2004). In our work
we would like to consider a concept slang and its role in modern
linguistics. It reflects specificity of modern unique life. People
can use slang in the most different situations. It helps them to
show their friendliness and loyalty to the comrades as a joke.
The slang can cause different reaction. But correctly used slang
always awakens a certain interest. An informal style of speech
often sees the frequent occurrence of slang, which may be a
single word, a group of words or a sentence. Slang is highly
informal and is often used in colloquial speech. It is a part of a
language that is usually outside of conventional or standard
usage and that may consist of both newly coined words and
phrases and of new or extended meanings attached to established
terms (Linhua,2006). The English slang is peculiar and unique.
Slang for many centuries of the existence nevertheless has
succeeded: many words were fixed in literary English.Idiolect is
a personal dialect of an individual speaker that combines
elements regarding regional, social, gender, and age variations.
In other words, an individual speaker’s regional and social
background, his/her gender and age jointly determine the way
he/she talks (Dai et al, 2010 ).Nowadays our language changes
every time. Words and expressions become simpler, reduced,
more abbreviations appear, they save time, it is very convenient
and simply. The speaker uses slang in order to achieve social
dynamics with the people to whom he/she is speaking and slang
outlines social spaces, and attitudes towards slang helps identify
and construct social groups and identity (Adams,2009).Because
of the accuracy, brevity, capacity and pithiness it becomes more
preferable in conversation. Due to the scientific and technical
progress use of the short exact speech has become a necessity in
everyday communication on social networks.

2 Methods

Considering and analyzing the works of various authors devoted
to a slang we have stopped on the definition of a slang given by
the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary and The New
Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
dictionaries in which a slang the option of informal conversation
(including in expressive way the painted elements of this
speech), not coinciding with standard of the literary language. In
new federal programs for foreign languages it is noted that

during the entire period of training in a foreign language
"communicative competence" is formed. It is ability to use and
transform language forms proceeding from a communication
situation. And it means that communicative competence can't be
reached without knowledge of a spoken language. It is obvious
that reliability of the facts and conclusions received by the
researcher depends on in what way the last came to these facts
and conclusions.Slang words may be much more direct than their
standard corresponding description” and are “immediate and
unequivocal for those who sharethe same slang vocabulary since
they help efficiency”, it is thus used to “be brief, concise”
(Mattiello, 2015). In everyday life we also describe the facts, we
estimate their credibility, we remove hypothetical patterns or we
disprove conclusions of other people. Language varies from one
social group to another social group, from one situation to
another situation, and from one place to another place. Variation
shows that every speaker does not speak the same way all the
time. Language varieties indicate that the speakers are distinct
from members of other groups (Finegan,2008).

Slang is an important part of language culture of youth. We used
questionnaire among the students in order to research the
stylistic features of the English modern slang. Twenty five
students of Kazan Federal University took part in this discussion.
After having conducted all the analysis and discussions of the
facts we have collected, we came to the conclusion that social
factors are the main reasons for increasing the share of slang in
the speech of the modern students. Our students often use slang
words in their speech. The questioning of youth and their parents
performs a number of important functions. First, by means of
polls it is possible to define relevance of questioning for specific
group of students and parents. Secondly, the obtained data allow
to tap the primary directions of prophylaxis.

This kind of poll allows in short time and with a small number of
participants to interview appreciable sets of people.

3 Results

Scholar studies of loan words offer multiple semantic
classifications for new words in the Russian language. O.
Egorova and D. Nikitin suggest that all new borrowings can be
categorized in the following groups: "...concepts of food; home
and house holding; clothes; arts; communication; science;
transport; society; economics and finance; politics; professions;
sport"( Egorova et al, 2011). The principle of systemacity which
is shown in consideration of all forms of language as a whole
forms a methodological basis of our research; the principle of
historicism providing development of a slang from the point of
view of his origin, historical development and modern
functioning.

For identification of the reasons of use of slang words, we have
carried out questioning among first year students of the Kazan
Federal University.

The majority students use slang words at a conversation with
peers. Such result allows to be convinced that the slang is used
by people of a certain age group once again. Most of the students
use slang only in a conversation with their friends.

Slang has positive and neutral semantic coloring that can
demonstrate growth of communicative tendencies, the aspiration
of parents to come into contact with the children.Slang is a
widespread phenomenon in any language and the functions of it
seems to be both dependent on social context and deeply rooted
in every human being’s need forbelonging to a group
(Adams,2009).

Results of a research on identification of the reasons of use of
slang words in the speech of students allow to showthe following
conclusions:

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