| Abstract [eng] |
The Master’s Thesis deals with pupils’ slang from various schools of Lithuania. The aim of this paper is to analyze the peculiarities of the usage of slang by pupils from Lithuania, to explain the rely of slang functionality on the circumstances of living conditions. The slang of the Lithuanian students is not searched at length in the language study. This topic has been slightly touched by E.Jakaitienė in ‘Lietuvių kalbos leksikologija’ (1980) and by J.Pikčilingis in ‘Lietuvių kalbos stilistika’ (1975). Egidijus Zaikauskas has published the article ‘Bausti negalima pasigaileti’ (2004) on the topic of slang and jargons. Because of the lacking works on slang in Lithuania, this paper will go deeper into the slang of Lithuanian pupils. It is necessarily expected to talk on this topic because more often we hear slang from children, adolescents, young people. It is impossible to deny these deviations from the language unambiguously. Though linguists are of contradictory opinion about the jargons still this phenomenon is concurrent from the society. Any school is the place for making up new dialects among the young. That is why this paper will study the pupils’ slang. This work will lead specialists of other fields such as psychologists, sociologists. The material is compiled using the questionnaire method. The forms have been filled by pupils from Kėdainiai, Labūnava, Biržai, Širvintos, Noreikiškės, Varėna, Klaipėda, Vilnius schools. While making up the research 3520 slang words and 550 sayings have been collected. The forms were filled by pupils attending 4-12 class. The conception of slang is reviewed in Lithuanian and foreign linguistics, the psychological and socio-cultural factors that determine the usage of slang are disputed as well as the formation of slang, stylistics, origin and orthographical peculiarities. The research of pupils’ slang makes clear that uncommon language is concurrent fact. They use slang and jargons willingly. The usage of slang depends on various aspects. One aspect is the cultural differences and psychological maturity. It is determined that slang is mainly used by pupils who have behaviour problems or are from asocial families. Slang usage by adolescents depends on their psychological maturity and socio-cultural environment. The slang reflects social differences among people and is connected with sex, age range, lifestyle and culture. It is used in close groups so namely these groups are the main source for new words to appear. Slang is concurrent from pupils’ language. It takes a distinctive position in language system and has a specific role in it. |
