The subject of the Master’s thesis is the origin, development and use of slang words which name persons and money. The methods applied in the thesis are as follows: explanatory, etymological, and systematic. In the thesis it is assumed that slang is a language sub-system comprising words and expressions which are not normative or emotionally-neutral, and which often have a negative connotation. These words and expressions have some formation-related, semantic and stylistic peculiarities; they are used by specific social groups and demonstrate the users’ belonging to a certain group. The problems of origin, development and use of slang words have not been studied in depth by Lithuanian linguists. This is due both to historical circumstances and to the various attitudes to this peripheral sphere of language (which most of the time is viewed negatively and called language “waste”). By considering slang words and expressions as a distorted layer not subject to general language norms, we set the goal to define whether it is possible to systemise it. Taking into consideration the origin, slang words are grouped into the following two categories: words of Lithuanian and non-Lithuanian origin. Characteristic features of slang words of Lithuanian origin are as follows: variety of meaning, acquisition of unusual meanings, formation of new words by consonance or certain allusions, as well as vulgar and idiomatic phrases. Most slavisms came from the same language layers (drug-addicts... [to full text]

The aim of this thesis is to give an insight on the problematics of colloquial language layer of Russian youth. The theoretical part is based on studies dealing with stylistic and sociolinguistic stratification of language. Further only colloquial formations are being dealt with, focusing on such concepts as "slang", "general slang" and "mat" and introducing ways of forming slang phrases. The practical part analyses written and oral text and subsequently acquired data is being compared and evaluated. The performed analysis illustrates how quickly the youth's slang is being updated and enriched with new expressions and which lexical units are being given preference by the older youth. The main contribution of this work is its relevance, as the research of this topic quickly becomes outdated.

A qualitative study conducted by semi-structured interviews with youth recreation leaders in a city in Västerbotten’s county in Sweden. The aim is to establish a greater knowledge regarding the youth recreation leader’s experiences of Swedish teenagers’ (17-25) reasons of use of multi-ethnical language among the teenagers, specifically with focus on certain categories as calques, slang words, non-inversion and broad generalization of prepositions. Previous studies from earlier years of the 2000’s have been set in the Southern parts of Sweden as cities as Göteborg, Malmö and Borås – which makes this survey relevant as a way of broadening the knowledge regarding multi-ethnical language among youths in Sweden. The survey was conducted at two youth recreation centres with four youth recreation leaders. The result supports that there are similarities with the slang words and calques used by young people in Southern parts of Sweden as in the Northern – just as some words seem to differ. The common understanding among the participating youth recreation leaders of why the youth recreation centres’ teenagers choose to speak multi-ethnical language is to mark group identity, as a camouflaging pseudo-language to exclude others as adults – or to show more affiliations in relations with closer friends.

Магистерская диссертация содержит опыт анализа современных киносценариев в социокультурном и стилистическом аспекте. Анализ жанровых и стилистических особенностей киносценария позволил установить прямую зависимость между данными параметрами. Проведен анализ сигналов многоречия в сценариях кинокомедий и драматических фильмов. В комедийных фильмах сталкивание в ближайшем контексте языковых единиц разных стилистических уровней используется для создания смехового эффекта. В сценарии драмы комбинация сниженного и общелитературного, специального и диахронически маркированного призвано прежде всего повысить конфликтность сюжета. / The master's thesis contains the experience of analyzing modern film scripts in a socio-cultural and stylistic aspect. The analysis of genre and stylistic features of the screenplay allowed us to establish a direct relationship between these parameters. The analysis of the signals of multilingualism in the scripts of comedies and dramatic films is carried out. In comedy films the collision of linguistic units of different stylistic levels in the immediate context is used to create a laughing effect. In the script of the drama the combination of reduced and general literary units, special and diachronically marked units is designed primarily to increase the conflict of the plot.