Open AccessStructural and semantic characteristics of French youth argot
Author(s) -
Lyubov E. Bakhvalova,
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Larisa Ukhova,
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Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
verhnevolžskij filologičeskij vestnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2499-9679
DOI - 10.20323/2499-9679-2021-4-27-150-157
Subject(s) - computer science , slang , linguistics , focus (optics) , field (mathematics) , ranking (information retrieval) , semantic analysis (machine learning) , natural language processing , interpretation (philosophy) , artificial intelligence , mathematics , philosophy , physics , pure mathematics , optics , programming language
The article is devoted to studying the argot of French students. The authors focus on the structural and semantic characteristics of the phenomenon in question. The article presents the methodology of collecting linguistic facts, which allows a more structured and in-depth study of linguistic phenomena, their functions and characteristics. Applying this methodology of data collection and verification helps to carry out a comprehensive linguistic analysis not only as a system, but also as a means of communication, and the extensive authentic material enables to reach the mental level. The first part of the article describes the procedure for collecting, verifying and processing the actual linguistic material; the second part presents the results of analyzing the slang structural and semantic characteristics: the typology of derivational mechanisms in student slang is presented, identifying universal and unique derivational mechanisms; slang units belonging to different thematic fields are interpreted, and a «portrait» of a representative of modern French student is modeled. In the course of the research the authors used both general scientific and specialist methods and techniques: at the level of data collection these were field and desk analysis of quantitative and qualitative data, as well as surveys, personal and in-depth interviews, Internet questionnaires (google forms), ranking, etc. To analyze the data we use methods of scientific observation, analytical description, semantic field analysis, retrospective, semasiological and onomasiological analysis, analysis by dictionary marks, linguistic commentary and linguistic interpretation of experimental data. The empirical basis of the study is the linguistic material collected by combining the methods of introspection and corpus linguistics, based on the entries in the latest dictionaries of unconventional lexis. The authors conclude that since language is a factor determining not only cultural reality, but also mental matrices, national stereotypes and worldview models, the youth slang is an important tools for modeling the linguistic (naive) picture of the world of its speakers, and reflecting the realities of the youth's world.