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Traditional Soviet conceptualisation of slang, argot and obscenities as ‘substandard’ is argued to have strong ideological underpinnings. Despite such lexis gaining increased visibility in public speech starting from Perestroika times, sociolinguistic research into their use is still scarce and often tainted by the same judgemental approach. Rejecting the association of slang, argot and obscenities with speakers’ insufficient linguistic competency, this study shifts attention to their identity construction values. Drawing largely on constructionist sociolinguistics, this thesis examines the use of slang, argot and obscenities in the scripts of six post-Soviet Russian films released in the period 1993-2005. It investigates how indexical connections between language and society were exploited, negotiated and, at times, reinterpreted in the films. Lexical variation is conceived here as a stylistic resource, and its functions in cinematic discourse are analysed in terms of statics (engagement with stereotypes) and dynamics (identity work) of characterisation. With regards to the former, the focused and economic conditions of film production determine that stereotypes are often drawn on to provide quick identification, especially in construction of minor characters. Stereotypes of criminals, youth and uneducated male adults were analysed, revealing that cinema does not only exploit direct associations between lexical varieties and social groups, but also engages with such stereotypes agentively, bringing to viewers’ attention their arbitrary nature and rigidity of boundaries, established by social categories. Language variation can also represent dynamics of characters’ identity work, which was analysed on two levels – interpersonal and ideational. The analysis revealed a multitude of functions, which on the interpersonal level drew on associations with familiarity, power and catharsis, yet defying stable connections between lexical varieties and structural elements. On the ideational level slang, argot and obscenities were shown to render characters’ orientation towards social structure and discourses, prevalent in the contemporary Russian society. This thesis thus shows that slang, argot and obscenities are a versatile meaning-making resource, employed in cinematic discourse for a variety of purposes. Focusing on the way character identities are styled through the use of lexical variation enabled this project to account for both the local instances of identity construction and the macro-level attempts of the filmmakers to critically engage with the social structures, exploring, questioning and reinterpreting them.

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The "On Contemporary Police Slang" thesis describes the language expressions of contemporary municipal and state police officers while using the language material excerpted from the active users of police slang. Nevertheless, the thesis also tries to put the slang terms of police officers into a wider context of police communication including its both official and semi-official level, psycholinguistic and legislative setting and relation to other linguistic structures and semi-structures not only from the contemporary phraseology point of view but also from the perspective of semantic course of used expressions. There is also the word-forming process depiction put into a wider context of general trends that can be observed in the field of slangs.

The thesis is concerned with the substandard expressions of parts of the face in the French language, specifically with the synonyms of mouth, eyes, ears and nose. The theoretical part deals with the definition of slang in general, its history and word formation processes. The practical part presents synonyms of the given parts of the face, which are in the dictionary of slang Dictionnaire avec Bob and also introduces their occurrence in four French slang dictionaries, for example Argoji, and in four reference dictionaries, for example Le Petit Robert, where it compares their lexicographic marking. The thesis further deals with etymology of the synonyms and their Czech equivalents which examines in the parallel French-Czech corpus Intercorp. Last but not least, a questionnaire is implemented, which verifies the knowledge of the most frequent synonyms among native speakers of the French language. In conclusion, the thesis summarizes whether lexicographic marking differ from one reference dictionary to another and presents the most frequent synonyms and results of the questionnaire. Key words: lexicography, lexicographic marking, substandard French, dictionaries, face, Bob

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