LINGUISTIC AND SOCIAL FEATURES OF SLANG

Abstract

This article deals with the study of the features of the youth slang using in modern English language. The aim of the article is to analyze the usage of slang expressions among young generation. The definition of slang begins to attract attention of modern philology. Now there is rather large number of the definitions of slang which are quite often contradicting each other. The authors claim, that the Russian slang has a huge number of English borrowings. This article is devoted to the analysis of a concept of a youth slang of the modern English. Relevance of our research is that the youth slang is in continuous development. Modern slang in English, being an integral part of language, represents one of the most urgent and contradictory problems of the modern lexicology. This research promotes a solution of the problem of determination, an entity and the main distinctive features of the studied phenomenon.