To the question of borrowing in youth slang in the lexico-semantic aspect

Zhang Wei

Recently, such a linguistic phenomenon as Russian youth slang is increasingly attracting the attention of scientists and Russianists. Youth slang develops over time and is influenced by political, economic and cultural development, youth slang gradually gained public acceptance and became widespread. It is this particular linguistic phenomenon that has increasingly come to the fore of researchers in the field of linguistics, becoming their object. Youth slang has become a special language used by a wide range of young people in a free context; at the moment, a large number of foreign words have penetrated into it. This article is devoted to the analysis of the features of the formation and use of borrowings in modern Russian youth slang, as well as one of the objectives of this article is to identify signs for identifying borrowings in Russian youth slang. In this work, the author analyzes the features of foreign words in modern Russian youth slang and determines the signs of identification of foreign words in Russian youth slang. In addition, the author in his work pays special attention to the consideration of the ways through which the creation and implementation of borrowings of words from other languages into Russian youth slang. As a result of the analysis performed, the author comes to the conclusion that borrowings exist and are actively being introduced not only into Russian slang, but also into the Chinese language. Thus, there is and is developing such a linguistic phenomenon as the borrowing or replenishment of the vocabulary of two languages: Russian and Chinese. In addition, using the semantic vocabulary of the languages considered in the work, the author performed an analysis of the influence of borrowings on Russian youth slang.

Keywords:youth slang, linguistic phenomenon, borrowing