Transcript Usage of borrowed slang in Youth’s speech

Usage of borrowed slang in Youth’s speech
Done by Dadar-ool Anay-Khaak Eres-oolovna,
the 11th “V” grade student Secondary school # 4
Headed by the English teacher of the 1st category,
Mr. Saaya Andrew Olegovich
Slang is an important part of everyday speech of
teenagers that makes the vocabulary lively, more teenlike, brightens the language. The slang of pre-teens,
teenagers, students and young people is used by all the
techniques of English, the world’s most influential
language. Thus, the subject of our research will be
English loan words in youth slang of Tuvan and Russian
young
people.
The aim
analyzing the usage of English borrowed slang among
young people and research if such words become a
language norm after some period of time of their
existence in the Russian and Tuvan languages.
The objectives
to study what slang is;
to classify slang;
to study and analyse what slang expressions are used
in present young people;
to research what slang is more used in speech of our
youth;
to conclude the leant material.
The methods
 studying of theoretical literature about the theme;
 analyzing the theoretical literature of the theme;
 comparing the studied materials of scientists about
the theme;
 questioning of usage English and American slangs in
speech;
 analyzing the studied materials.
Scientific newness
borrowing new amazing slang in nowadays life every
day, every minute, every second.
Hypothesis
if new slang is used in everyday speech of young
people.
Object
historical development of slang
Subject
slang which is used in youth’s everyday speech.
Theoretical significance
revelation if slang is used in young people’s speech in
Russia and Republic of Tuva.
Practical significance
using taken slang from English and American in
speech of Russian and Tuvan youth.
There is a serious side to analysing young
people’s slang and the usage of English loaning
words in young people’s everyday talks.
Chapter I
Slang – words and phrases used informally in everyday
speech and writing and not for formal or polite use.
Slang - language peculiar to a particular group, an
informal nonstandard vocabulary composed typically
of coinages.
Slang - nonstandard vocabulary composed of words or
senses characterized primarily by connotations of
extreme informality and usually by a currency not
limited to a particular region.
Most slang is used on the spoken level. Slang expressions are created by the
same processes that affect ordinary speech:
 clipping: teach for teacher or phys ed for physical education (физра), mike –
microphone;
 metaphor: let's blow (leave) (слиняем) (a metaphor based on the movement of
the wind);
 hyperbole: the bomb (implying a nuclear bomb);
 for funny: icky, yucky, dweeb, and nerd;
 slang elements are suffixes: Russian - nik in beatnik / Tuvan –symaar in
coolsimaar;
 abbreviation: («VIP», «AWOL») (pseudo crypto formations, adverbs formed
from names);
 new meanings: cool, cat;
 foreign words may be adopted: baloney.
Slang is created by ingenious individuals to freshen the language, to make the
language more picturesque, to increase the store of striking words, or to provide a
vocabulary for new shades of meaning.
Also slang tends to originate in subcultures within a society. Occupational groups
(for example, loggers, police, medical professionals, and computer specialists) are
prominent originators of both jargon and slang; other groups creating slang include
the armed forces, teenagers, racial minorities, citizens-band radiobroadcasters, sports
groups, drug addicts, criminals, and even religious denominations.
Slang words introduce new concepts; some of the most effective slang provides
new fresh, satirical, shocking expressions for established concepts. Slang comes
from high schools and colleges but it isn't limited to those places. And slang is
associated with youth; the older we get, the less likely we are to maintain it. So it is
not a language, dialect, or ordinary register. It is a special code that differentiates
those who are «with it», who «make the scene».
Chapter II
We live in the Computer era with the Internet. A lot
of computer terms invaded our speech.
You call your computer комп, компик etc. If it works
bad, it's гнилой («rotten») or убитый / өлүпкалды
(«killed»). And when life is going great, we say it's
балдёжно, зыко, неслабо, отпадно, улётно, файно,
чётко, чисто тайд, угжок, сос чок, чедип тур, чечип
тур, чыыртымай etc.
The slang words can be divided into categories words describing relations between young people,
words devoted to leisure activities, adjectives
expressing the attitude of young people to everyday life,
words connected with computers, words naming people,
emotional and expressive words.
Questionnaire
1. Do you use slang words in your oral speech? Вы употребляете
сленг в своей речи?
2. Is it depend on what people are you talking with when you use
slang? Зависит ли употребление сленга от того, с кем вы
общаетесь?
3. Does your talker understand you when you use slang? If «NO»,
please, show what age category.
Понимают ли вас при употреблении сленговых выражений? Если
нет, то укажите, какая возрастная категория не понимают ваш
сленг?
4. Where do you take slang / slang words?
Откуда вы узнали про употребляемые сленговые выражения?
5. Do you understand slang which is told you?
Вы всегда понимаете сленговые выражения, которые вам говорят?
6. Why do you use slang? Для чего ты употребляешь сленговые
выражения?
Results of our questionnaire.
They were to name slang phrases they use and hear in
talks and answer some questions about this expressions.
Depends of the audiences of our school status
(teachers, workers and students of the 5th and 11th
grades) were questionnaired.
Most people use in different situations (57.2 %) and
only 42.8 % don’t mind who to speak to when using
slang expressions.
42.8%
use slang
57.2%
don’t use slange
the “top 10” rating of the most popular
slang words was made:
аська (ICQ – I seek you)
супер (super)
сори (sorry)
контактылаар (contact)
Yahoo, boom, oh и т. д.
плиз (please),
сен кю (thank you)
хай, хэлоу (hi, hello)
геймер (gamer)
пипл (people)
лузер ( loser)
френды (friend) / бойфренд
упс / оопс (oops)
кул, кульный, кульно (cool)
уау (wow)
окей (okay)
лаф (love)
дринк / дринктээр (drink)
мани (money)
о, май год! (Oh, my God)
more than the half of the interviewees (58. 7%) learn
slang words from their friends and 41.3 % took it from
Internet, the mass media, music and subcultures.
34%
58.7%
7.3%
Internet, mass media, youth literature
music, subcultures
oral speech
Most of interviewees (51.7 %) use slang as a habit,
19.5 % use slang in order to express their opinion more
clearly and shortly, 17.5 % of teenagers of our area use
slang because it is an easy way to express their
emotions, and the rest part (11.3 %) use slang in order
to seem more “cool” in the eyes of friends.
19,5%
11,3%
17,5%
51,7%
to seem cool
привычка
to show emotions easier
express opinion clearer and shorter.
we interviewed people older than 26. We learned that in
most cases (56.8% of interviewees) understand slang
and 43.2% are unaware of it.
43,2%
56,8%
understand slang
don’t understand slang
We see that if people don’t use slang, in most cases
they understand the meaning of the slang words.
Russian and Tuvan people also change some parts of
English slang words according to Russian and Tuvan
languages rules.
Inference
We can find the equivalents of modern slang in the Antiquity, in the Middle
Ages, and in the modern era. All slang passes through the same developmental
cycles. Now it has become a tool in the hands of master satirists, humorists, and
journalists.
Slang is now socially acceptable, not just because it is slang but because, when
used with skill and discrimination, it adds a new and exciting dimension to
language. At the same time, it is being seriously studied by linguists and other
social scientists. The processes by which words become slang are the same as those
by which other words in the language change their form or meaning or both. Some
of these are the employment of metaphor, simile, folk etymology, distortion of
sounds in words, generalization, specialization, clipping, the use of acronyms,
elevation and degeneration, metonymy, synecdoche, hyperbole, borrowings from
foreign languages, and the play of euphemism against taboo.
A foreign suffix may be added and foreign words adopted. Changing in
meaning may make a vulgar word acceptable or an acceptable word vulgar. Slang
is one of the vehicles through which languages change and become renewed, and
enrich daily speech. Although it has gained respectability in the 20th century, in the
past it was often loudly condemned as vulgar.
Thus, for many words, slang is a testing ground that finally proves them to be
generally useful, appealing, and acceptable enough to become standard or
informal.
We can total that slang is a testing ground that shows them to be unnecessary,
frivolous, faddish, or unacceptable for standard or informal speech. For still a third
group of words and expressions, slang becomes not a final testing ground that
either accepts or rejects them for general use but becomes a vast limbo, an area of
speech that a word never leaves.
Thanks for your attention!
Reporter: the student of the 11th «V» grade
Secondary school # 4 Ak-dovurak town,
Dadar-ool Anay-Khaak Eres-oolovna
The Head: Mr. Saaya Andrew Olegovich,
the 1st category teacher of English, Ak-Dovurak town