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With an emphasis on the cultural and psychological ramifications of relationship slang, this essay examines how the vocabulary used in Gen Z romantic relationships is changing. The study explores how concepts like "ghosting," "breadcrumbing," and "situationships" are a reflection of evolving expectations regarding commitment, the role of digital communication in romance, and changing societal norms. Through an analysis of the interplay between language, technology, and relationship dynamics, the study demonstrates how Gen Z's vocabulary shapes their perceptions of intimacy, love, and emotional health. This study sheds light on how contemporary slang influences interpersonal behaviors and how society views love relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article reports on a long-term comparative exploratory study of Polish undergraduate and graduate university students who have been studying English as a second language (L2E). The foci of this article are twofold. The first is to establish the reasons for pursuing the study of L2E over a two-point time period: 2013 and 2019. The second is to discover the use and influence of cyberlanguage on communications and whether including English internet slang in the curriculum is desirable. The data, over an interval of six years, showed a strong interest in the daily usage of online slang (informal online written communication), as respondents considered this an important aspect of their foreign language acquisition. The article concludes that the L2 syllabus needs to be more relevant and interesting to young adults in order to enhance their engagement and learning. Teaching online slang should be included in the texts and classroom activities, as the command of such slang presupposes a good understanding of the base language (L2), especially when acronyms and substitutions are made common practice in cyberlanguage communications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Previous research has focused on thematic and semantic descriptions of slang expressions in the Nigerian educational context. Morphological and semantic analyses of slang expressions have received little attention. This study addresses this gap by identifying different slang expressions used by students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, accounting for the morphological processes involved in their formation, and exploring how the meanings of these slang expressions are derived. The microethnography research design was adopted, and data were drawn from participant observation and semi-structured interviews involving 50 students. Data are analysed descriptively following linguistic analytical procedures. The analysis indicates that slang expressions used by students in the study population are formed using these morphological processes: abbreviation/acronym, clipping, borrowing, calquing, reduplication, compounding, back-formation, and blending. The study shows that the meaning of slang words is manipulated through generalisation, particularisation, and pejoration. This study contributes to the literature on slang usage by establishing that calquing and reduplication are also morphological processes involved in slang formation. This article contributes to the understanding that slang expressions can also be borrowed from languages within a country and not necessarily from outside. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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It is well‐established within linguistics that slang serves a group‐identifying function. In this paper, a new understanding of the notion of lexical metadata is developed to provide a philosophical treatment of said function. The proposed account explains the group‐identifying function of slang in terms of certain inferences about a speaker's group affiliations that people competent with a slang word will be disposed to make given the lexical metadata related to the word in question. The resulting view is theoretically simple and may extend to a whole range of linguistic phenomena that speakers utilize to position themselves in social space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the treatment of Australian slang within the context of lexicography, in particular focusing on the way in which the Australian National Dictionary: Australian Words and Their Origins (first edition, 1988, second edition, 2016, online edition forthcoming) has dealt with slang. It places this treatment within the broader context of debates and discussions around Australian slang, as well as considering the treatment of slang by other English-language dictionaries, primarily those based on historical principles. It explains the decisions made around the treatment of slang and colloquial language in the Australian National Dictionary. These decisions were as much informed by the ways in which Australian slang has been constructed and shaped by cultural discourses, myths, and perceptions as by any objective categorization of language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Slang or neologism can be considered as playful words that are being construed as something that defines the current generation's set-up, culture, or background. It may also be considered the language of the current times but may differ depending on the projected culture to where it will be used. The study is about how, from a regular expression, a possible slang/neologism may be formed/constructed. The way that slang/neologism is being idealized as something new reflects how words are so dynamic and how, through their coinage, a word can signify a new meaning, a new perspective, and a new appreciation of culture and standards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyzes the semiotic representations of gender through the language practices of Cameroonian youth observed in Tu Know Ma Life (You know my life), a YouTube series popular among the French Cameroonian diaspora that follows the daily life of nine young middle- and upper-class Cameroonian immigrants (five women and four men) living in Paris. This series is regarded by its audience as an authentic representation of Cameroonian identity, partly due to its remarkable use of Francanglais, a hybrid youth slang spoken in Cameroon. I analyze how the mediatized representation of Francanglais practices in the first season of the YouTube series contributes to the linguistic construction of gender differentiations. I argue that through the highly gendered use of Francanglais and French by women and men, the series reproduces hegemonic gender ideologies while reinforcing the ideological association between Francanglais and hegemonic heterosexual masculinity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay analyzes the correspondence between the writer Cesare Pavese and the musician Antonio Chiuminatto. Chiuminatto, born in Rivarolo Canavese in 1904, moved to America as a child, returning to Italy, in Turin, only in 1925 to continue his musical studies at the «Giuseppe Verdi» Conservatory. To support his studies, Chiuminatto begins to give English lessons and, among his students, he meets Pavese. Upon Chiuminatto's return to America, the two began to write to each other, forging a solid friendship that would last until 1933 and would prove to be decisive for Pavese: thanks to his American friend, Pavese was in fact able to read books still completely unknown in Italy. The correspondence is particularly interesting because, in addition to providing an overall picture of Pavese's readings, it allows us to open interesting glimmers of the writer's other interests, such as his passion for American cinema and music, and above all it clearly reveals the enthusiasm, the continuous amazement with which Pavese discovered America, without ever really reaching it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Slang is a form of language that is modified or shortened to make concepts shorter and easier to understand by certain groups. Although slang is informal, it can increase friendliness and enjoyment of everyday communication. Therefore, this research seeks to provide a analysis of the types of slang commonly used on social media X. This research uses qualitative research. The qualitative research used is descriptive qualitative research. The researcher chose the purposive sampling method for this research. Data collection techniques were carried out by taking screenshots and reading and writing techniques. As part of this research, social media data revealed that slang can be categorized into word types and structures. Results based on Allan & Burridge (2006) show that the forms of slang found on social media are very diverse, creative and active, including fresh and creative, flippant, imitative, acronyms and clipping. The results of the research show that, there are 3 social media accounts X that the researcher chose as samples for this research, namely Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, and Lady Gaga. The researchers examined 5 types of slang words, namely fresh and creative of 17%, flippant of 17%, imitative of 23%, acronym of 20% and clipping of 23%. The slang words most frequently used by the 3 samples that researchers took on social media X were Clipping and imitative with a percentage of 23%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examined the common language used for texting between first- and second-year English language studies majors at a state university in the northern Philippines, as well as their writing skills. The methodology of total enumeration sampling was utilized to ascertain the study participants. The findings demonstrated that "Shortenings and Abbreviations" is the most often used texting language among the seven commonly used texting languages among the respondents. The results also revealed that the respondents' written performance had a relatively low level of writing competence, "Developing," which can be linked to their usage of acronyms and shorthands. These imply that the idea that textese, or texting language, is destroying language and influencing the language performance of the students has been proven and confirmed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Regardless of recent arguments about the wide-scale capabilities of artificial intelligence introduced into machine translation systems, some professionals still underestimate machine translation. However, other scholars see MT as an opportunity to develop and improve the translation industry. Apparently, there is no doubt that machine translation has massively impacted the translation profession and changed radically the way human beings interact through languages. Therefore, translators, university professors, and translation companies seek to adapt to these radical transformations in the field of translation studies. Regardless of the advantages of machine translation, it still confronts huge challenges especially when MT strategies and procedures are applied to specific texts in different contexts particularly colloquial Arabic extensively proliferated in contemporary literature and mass media. On this basis and in response to repeated claims about the high efficiency of machine translation and its extra-ordinary potentialities to render any text from one language into another with accuracy and precision, this paper emphasizes the inability of machine translation mechanisms to render Arabic texts into English and vice versa. The paper emphasizes the damaging impact of using machine translation in rendering into English not only colloquial Arabic dialects but also modern standard Arabic (MSA). The paper also underlines the translation errors resulting from the use of machine translation in rendering modern English texts into Arabic and vice versa with focus on the translation of idiomatic expressions and proverbs. As applied study, the paper will use a variety of texts selected from various literary and non-literary sources/contexts and translate them by “Google Translate” to underline the drawbacks of MT, which subsequently lead to the distortion of the meaning of the SL texts translated into TL. In other words, the paper aims to uncover the mistakes resulting from the use of machine translation when converting both MSA and colloquial Arabic expressions into English and vice versa. The argument of the paper consists of four parts including an introduction, which navigates contemporary translation theories, followed by a scrutiny of the challenges confronting Arabic-English translation, and examples of Arabic/English/Arabic carried out by machine and human translation in addition to a conclusion.

This article provides an introductory examination of Urban Dictionary, focusing on its attributes and distinctive features. In the article the functionalities of the webpage are explored, the structure of entries is analysed and a typology of definitions is proposed. Through detailed analysis of specific examples from the Urban Dictionary lexicon, the dynamics of this user-generated content platform is discussed. The paper highlights the significance of individual and social perspectives of users as well as the aspects of creativity, humour and narratives included in the definitions. The paper aims to contribute to better understanding of the phenomenon of Urban Dictionary in the context of social linguistics.

This study examined the translation strategies used in subtitling Arabic dialogues in Netflix’s The Crown into English with specific reference to idioms, slang expressions, and offensive language and taboos. The data, which included Arabic examples of the specified categories along with their English subtitles, were collected and qualitatively analyzed according to different typologies of equivalence proposed by previous studies, including those by Vinay and Darbelnet (2004), Baker (1992) and Díaz Cintas and Remael (2021). The findings revealed that in translating idioms, paraphrasing was the most utilized strategy that successfully delivered the literal meaning but fell short of capturing the negative connotations of the expressions. For slang expressions, the subtitler opted for omission and using equivalents with less expressive meanings. When translating offensive language and taboos, the expressions were either softened or omitted to minimize their negative impact on the audience, especially those concerning British royalty. Expressions related to non-royals, however, were translated literally. This study can help subtitlers and translation students enhance their skills in rendering culture-specific expressions, including idiomatic, slang, and offensive expressions. It is recommended that translators strike a balance between adapting expressions to resonate with the target audience while maintaining the authenticity of the original dialogue.

The article scrutinizes extralinguistic, intralinguistic and semi-linguistic factors that influence the political lexicon of the youngsters. The words of actual political discourse have been classified into several sections which have been spelled out in the article. Methodology is based on the survey conducted among the schoolchildren of 9-11 grades. The list of lexemes was divided into 3 main subgroups which were common vocabulary, terminological vocabulary and slang vocabulary. The terms have been analyzed in terms of extralinguistic, intralinguistic and semi-linguistic factors in the study. The study underlines that one word might be polysemantic depending on which terminology it refers to. One technical term may have a vulgar meaning in some cases for i ts sphere of usage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to hierarchical power relations and the difficulty of confronting others or expressing disdain explicitly in small rural communities, nicknames and spoiled names can be an overt avenue for venting displeasure, ridiculing, expressing social inequality, asserting superiority, conveying judgment, or warning against improper behaviour. The study focuses on how native Punjabi speakers in rural Punjab, Pakistan, distort names to express disdain, rage, affection, or frankness towards people in their presence or absence. Distorted names used both overtly (in the person’s presence) or secretly have been collected through a questionnaire filled in by 22 participants belonging to 22 villages in Punjab, Pakistan. Socio-cultural implications of those names have also been investigated and discussed. The author shows that the boundary between distorted names and nicknames is indistinct. This applies to both their formal features, semantic and pragmatic properties. Speakers not only morphologically distort the formal names but also use the names of castes, animals, physical attributes, and professional titles as address forms or referential expressions. Although distorted names generally offend the referent, they, like nicknames, can be used in both positive and negative contexts. The article describes the main motivational patterns of distorted names, similar to those usually pointed out for nicknames, and focuses mainly on their pragmatic features as noted in the metalinguistic comments of the respondents. Though the use of such naming labels may display quite universal regularities, the socio-cultural situation of the caste-based traditional rural communities of Punjab brings its own specifics to the way distorted names and nicknames are used in the area under study.

Louchébem, the ancient trade argot of the Paris butchers, is based on a word formation (or rather deformation) process used to disguise French words according to a rule. The butchers did not invent the process but borrowed it from Largonji  (a deformation of jargon). Words from this source are attested in the argot of the so-called 'dangerous classes', who used it to produce language opaque to the authorities. Louchébem combines a means of secrecy, an opportunity for language play and a tool for constructing craft identity. In this article, I present the linguistic and sociolinguistic details of Louchébem based on primary data collected from 233 traditional butchers. I further investigate secrecy in the modern context, when the key to Louchébem is available on the internet over 150 years after the emergence of the butchers' argot. My research shows that both internal and external factors influence how secret Louchébem really is. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores academic and industry perspectives on the use of dialect, slang, and historical language in screenwriting. It offers a chronological overview of major screenwriting manuals’ treatment of dialect and slang (or lack thereof) 1946-2020. It then presents survey data of 53 currently-practicing screenwriters’ views on working with dialect and historical language in scripts, as well as their sense of possible changes in the industry regarding attitudes towards diverse voice representation on the page. It concludes with examples from a teaching sequence that illustrates strategies for writing with dialect, researching it, and ethically considering its usage in scripts. Situating this work as an important intervention in historical English language studies as well as writing across the curriculum/writing in the disciplines, the article advocates for a focus on teaching concrete, actionable steps that align academic practices with industry norms. It also encourages students to critically engage with those practices and norms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Violent metaphors are common in the description of stand-up comedy. If a comedian is successful, she "kills"—vaudeville slang that hardened in the twentieth century into an aggressive, hierarchical ethos this article refers to as the dominance model that is problematic because it reproduces systems of oppression that disadvantage comedians of marginalized identities, especially women and LGBTQIA+ performers. While pervasive in the stand-up industry, the dominance model is not inherent to the art form itself but is rather a by-product of the white, heteropatriarchal culture in which stand-up was forged. A more inclusive model frames stand-up comedy as an erotic art as defined by Audre Lorde in "Uses of the Erotic." Lorde argues that erotic knowledge is deeply felt in the body, joyful, and shared, a description that neatly encapsulates the experience of stand-up comedy for both performer and audience and offers a fresh, feminist approach to understanding stand-up comedy performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study delves into the intricate tapestry of English pronunciation across the Southern and Northern regions of India, with a particular emphasis on the idiosyncrasies of slang usage among speakers of Dravidian and Indo-Aryan languages. The research endeavours to shed light on the underlying mechanisms driving these phonetic variations, considering the linguistic, sociocultural, and technological factors at play. Through analysis of key languages from both language families, this research elucidates the factors driving variations in pronunciation. Central to this investigation is the recognition of slang as a potent force shaping pronunciation dynamics. Slang, characterised by its informal and often playful nature, serves as a vehicle for linguistic innovation, facilitating the spread of novel pronunciations among speakers. Through a meticulous analysis of primary languages from both language families, this research elucidates the intricate interplay between linguistic diversity and pronunciation evolution. Employing a multifaceted methodology encompassing observation, comparison, elicitation, and analysis, this study navigates the complex terrain of multilingual accents in India. It advocates for the preservation of linguistic plurality, cautioning against the imposition of a standardised Indian accent that could homogenise the rich tapestry of regional variations. Key findings highlight the multifarious factors contributing to pronunciation shifts among North and South Indian speakers. Assimilation and dissimilation processes, phonological mergers, as well as the pervasive influence of language and social contacts, emerge as pivotal forces driving linguistic change. Furthermore, the burgeoning impact of technology and media on language usage underscores the dynamic nature of pronunciation evolution in contemporary Indian society. In conclusion, this research underscores the importance of understanding and preserving linguistic diversity in India. By acknowledging the significance of regional accents and the role of slang in pronunciation dynamics, this study advocates for a nuanced approach to language preservation and standardisation. By embracing the inherent plurality of Indian English, we can foster a linguistic landscape that celebrates diversity while ensuring the continued vitality of English as a global medium of communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Among the numerous translators into Spanish of the 17th century, the figure of the Italian Lorenzo Franciosini stands out. The production of this grammarian, lexicographer, and author of the first translation into Italian of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha spans from 1620 to 1644 and includes a total of eleven works. In relation to his translation work, this paper aims to compare a small part of the original text of Cervantes’ Don Quixote (specifically the first ten chapters of the first part) with its translation (recall that he translated the first part in 1622 and the second in 1625). In these ten chapters, we have decided to pay attention to three very interesting aspects: “toscanismos” (Tuscanisms), religion, and “germanía” (a type of slang). We have focused on them because they often did not receive the appropriate translation by Franciosini, nor have they enjoyed sufficient interest in terms of linguistic and translator analysis. Likewise, their examination will serve us to have another useful parameter when evaluating the quality of the translation by our Tuscan author. In general terms, his version is reliable, although we have found numerous errors resulting, among other things, from its excessive literalness and the fact that our translator failed to understand certain passages of the original text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article seeks to reveal the concept of compressive processes implemented in the professional slang of Ukrainian military people and volunteers. It is a continuation of a series of works covering the current processes in language and speech. The main focus here is placed on abbreviation and univerbation as the processes able to create compressed modification of nominative units – both analytical, and synthetic, i.e., the processes belonging to internal, speech-based word formation. The topicality of the paper lies in its focus on phenomena that gradually become the history of the Ukrainian language and Slavic studies as a whole, including neologization and adjacent phenomena. Тhe research aims to define the productivity of compressives as units of military discourse, on one hand, and as the emergent linguistic material, on the other. The objectives of the study are as follows: 1) to separate compressives from the traditional derivates; 2) to determine the criteria for distinguishing the main compressive processes – abbreviation and univerbation; 3) to formulate the causes of the emergence of the investigated slang; 4) to give reasoning for the study of compressives in military discourse as a prospective research issue. The main research methods include the descriptive and structural ones, as they help demonstrate the specificity of univerbs and abbreviation as instances of speech compression. We have utilized the distributive analysis approach to determine the types of nominative units’ transformation. Military discourse is the field of language functioning that fosters the production of neologisms emerging as a result of different types of compression. It reflects the dynamic nature of military discourse with its need to convey maximum amount of information within the minimum period of time, striving for clearance, laconic forms, and rich content. Within the range of Ukrainian military lexicon under analysis, we single out nouns (formed by means of abbreviation, univerbation, and simulation of univerbation) as well as verbs and their verb forms (which often result from univerbation). The emergence of compressive nominations in question follows the general tendency of lexical nomination towards modifying analytical or complex synthetic units into shorter speech segments, being a universal feature of the current state of the Indo-European languages as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contemporary Italian is undergoing numerous and rapid changes. Given the impossibility of illustrating all the salient features within a brief presentation in a (futile) attempt at broad contextualization, a very recent and particularly eloquent example from the hip-hop phenomenon is preferred. This example addresses youth slang, showcasing, despite its specific intricacies, some more general traits of the phenomenon, including the profound influence of English on Italian and the importance of age as a factor impacting spoken variations. Specifically, the text of "Louboutin" (from the album of the same name), a single released on June 25, 2020, by Vale Pain, an artist of Peruvian origins born and raised in the San Siro neighborhood of Milan, currently considered one of the leading exponents of the drill genre in Italy, will be analyzed and commented upon. This will be done in collaboration with the rapper Rondodasosa, who is also from the same neighborhood, where most of the official video was filmed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores some euphemistic expressions in common usage in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). It evaluates the degree to which Saudis are familiar with these expressions and how frequently they use them. The KSA covers a large area with a variety of dialects: thus, any socio-linguistic research which deals with slang should be meticulous. One enabling factor for this study is that Saudis are comparatively religious and avoidant of linguistic taboos, and consequently employ euphemisms often. Several research papers have tackled taboos in the KSA, but most of these have been contrastive to or comparative with British English or American English, while others have explored standard euphemistic expressions in classical Arabic. This study is unique in dealing with selective euphemisms used in Saudi slang through a survey devised to measure peoples' degree of knowledge as well as their usage of such expressions. After analyzing the results of the questionnaires, it is possible to derive several attitudinal results, the most important of which include the findings that present-day Saudis are generally well-acquainted with euphemism in their language and that they are inclined to employ it in everyday situations wherever appropriate. The population selected for this study is resident within the Al Riyadh region, or what can be called "Najid". As the heart of the KSA, this region has Saudis from various regions and with a range of linguistic differences. However, it is recommended that similar studies be taken up in different parts of the KSA so as to pinpoint regional variations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Arabic-derived French slang word wesh has fascinated linguists and bilingual French speakers seeking equivalents of the word in other languages. Because it appears in a variety of discourse contexts, its use and translation into English can be difficult to immediately discern. This study analyzes 84 occurrences of the word in natural language use in social media posts and during conversations from November 2022 to January 2023. We identify five distinct uses of wesh as a discourse marker in French, along with one substantive use. Finally, we propose an updated dictionary entry and provide pedagogical suggestions for instructors. Le mot argot français d'origine arabe, wesh , fascine les linguistes et les locuteurs bilingues du français qui y cherchent un équivalent dans d'autres langues. En raison de sa présence dans divers contextes discursifs, l'utiliser et le traduire en anglais peuvent être difficiles. Cette étude analyse 84 occurrences du mot produites en langue naturelle sur les réseaux sociaux et lors de conversations pendant la période de novembre 2022 à janvier 2023. Nous identifions cinq utilisations distinctes de wesh en tant que marqueur de discours en français, ainsi qu'une utilisation comme substantif. Pour conclure, nous proposons une entrée de dictionnaire plus complète et fournissons des suggestions pédagogiques pour les instructeurs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Сленг как лингвистическое явление вызывает интерес по сей день. Статья посвящена вопросу игрового сленга. Авторами приведено оптимальное определение «игрового сленга», а также его разновидностей. Целью данной статьи является анализ игрового сленга малого толкового онлайн словаря-справочника русскоязычного сообщества “World of Warcraft” – массовой многопользовательской ролевой онлайн-игры, существующей с 2004 года. Объектом исследования выступили языковые единицы, представленные в «WOW словаре», размещённом в открытом доступе в сети «Интернет». В статье также уделяется внимание англицизмам, которые составляют значительный пласт лексики в данном словаре. Авторы сделали акцент на лексикографическом и лексикологическом аспектах в своём исследовании, что позволило не только провести лексикографический анализ словаря, но также проанализировать способы словообразования, представленные в этом словаре. Выводы исследования подчеркивают уникальность и значимость игрового сленга для дальнейших лингвистических исследований.

Slang or neologism can be considered as playful words that are being construed as something that defines the current generation’s set-up, culture, or background. It may also be considered the language of the current times but may differ depending on the projected culture to where it will be used. The study is about how, from a regular expression, a possible slang/neologism may be formed/constructed. The way that slang/neologism is being idealized as something new reflects how words are so dynamic and how, through their coinage, a word can signify a new meaning, a new perspective, and a new appreciation of culture and standards.

Цель данной статьи – анализ особенностей коммуникации в дискурсе киберспорта, обусловленных новыми реалиями киберпространства. Материалом исследования для данной статьи послужили записи стримов турнирных и публичных матчей англоговорящих и русских контент-мейкеров. Актуальность данной статьи обусловлена высокой популярностью киберспорта как социального явления, позволяющего смотреть, болеть, участвовать и соревноваться не в реальном, а в виртуальном пространстве. Практическая значимость данного исследования позволяет изучать классифицировать и разбирать особенности игрового и киберспортивного сленга, изучать способы передачи и перевода терминов в данной сфере, а также подробно изучать стратегии выстраивания коммуникации в данной интернациональной среде. Данное исследование позволило показать, как пользователи и игроки находят способы передачи и/или обозначения различных терминов и к каким переводческим трансформациям и решениям они прибегают. В ходе исследования было выявлено, что игроки нередко прибегают к различным переводческим приёмам, среди которых можно выделить транслитерацию, транскрипцию, использование заимствований и сокращений для обозначений игровых явлений, механик, ролей, мест.Методами изучения послужили: наблюдение, анализ, классификация и описание.

The article examines the linguistic and cultural characteristics of the substandard based on the material of artistic works of the second half of the XX – early XXI centuries. Substandard linguistic units, such as, for example, jargon and slang are an integral part of the artistic space when it comes to a realistic recreation of a certain period of time, describing the inner experiences of characters, verbalizing the worldview of the characters of the works. The use of a linguistic substandard allows you to recreate the linguistic and conceptual picture of the world not only of the characters of the work, the system of their norms and values, but also to rise to generalization and understanding of reality. The main functions of substandard units are ideological and emotional-evaluative, as well as cognitive, less often nominative.

Personal worldview can be subjected to linguistic modeling even if the person in question is a fictional character. This research featured the vocabulary invented by the contemporary American writer Dave Eggers for his dystopic dilogy, as well as the role of this fictional language in creating satirical mode. The study involved such methods of cognitive linguistics as component, transformational, and stylistic analyses, analytical description, and semantic fields. The article opens with a review of domestic and foreign publications on the connection between language, social processes, and thinking. The Circle (2013) and The Every (2021) were analyzed for satirical and stylistic devices. The dilogy turned out to be a new type of satire, which combines the postmodern irony and deconstruction with the metamodern openness and optimism. The vocabulary of the future as seen by the author was analyzed for its functions in creating the worldview. Its key features include: neologisms and occasionalisms coined in line with actual word-formation models; contrasting high and low-style vocabulary; euphemisms and modified set phrases. D. Eggers also satirized some real linguistic trends, which, in his opinion, deform the language and affect people’s mind and behavior.

The article discusses various approaches to defining the terminological base, the ambiguity of definitions, the lack of clear boundaries and signs of the concepts of social exclusion and social inclusion. The notions under study are characterized by way of their reference to communication process circumstances and participants, who are contrasted in their social status, cultural experience, ideological ideas and worldview to other social groups. The article analyzes slang neoformations with the concern for stylistically reduced register of communication as objectifying categories of social exclusion and social inclusion within the framework of youth discourse, which determine the developing vector of both society structure on the whole and social subsystems of the language. The novelty and relevance of the study lie in the use of linguocognitive analysis of authentic material, on the basis of which the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion of slang lexical units are differentiated. The regularity in actualization of social exclusion or inclusion is understood in connection with the mechanisms and possibilities of using communicative practices in order to include social groups in social processes. These phenomena are reflected at the lexical level of the language and might contribute to various transformations of social consciousness, increasing language efficiency and its ability to respond to current challenges. It is concluded that modern youth slang is a specific language model that acts as an instrument of social exclusion or inclusion; in communicative practices, it is embodied through pejorative slang nominations thus strategically and tactically forming a negative image and antisocial behavior. The results of the research contribute to further study of the communicative nature of sociolinguistic phenomena, to comparative studies of the discursive construction of socially significant fragments of social reality, and the communicative manifestation of multidirectional social processes that determine the social structure and stratification of society.

The aim of this study is to analyze Saudi Arabic slang expressions and examine their subtitling into English. The data utilized in this research consists of slang terms identified in the film titled "The Book of the Sun", available on the streaming platform Netflix, along with their corresponding English translations. This study primarily examines three key dimensions of slang expressions: originality, conciseness, and humor. It also explores the subtitling strategies used to render these slangs and the effectiveness of such strategies. The study's findings indicate that all identified slangs (100%) are created by assigning new meanings to pre-existing established words in a creative way. Some of them are made concise by mapping them into faʕʕala verb template. Additionally, the subtitler has employed specific strategies to convey the intended meaning of these slangs, namely generalization, paraphrase, official equivalent, direct translation, and cultural substitution. However, the study posits that the strategies employed are ineffective in conveying the intended meaning of slang expressions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In underground industries, practitioners frequently employ argots to communicate discreetly and evade surveillance by investigative agencies. Proposing an innovative approach using word vectors and large language models, we aim to decipher and understand the myriad of argots in these industries, providing crucial technical support for law enforcement to detect and combat illicit activities. Specifically, positional differences in semantic space distinguish argots, and pre-trained language models' corpora are crucial for interpreting them. Expanding on these concepts, the article assesses the semantic coherence of word vectors in the semantic space based on the concept of information entropy. Simultaneously, we devised a labeled argot dataset, MNGG, and developed an argot recognition framework named CSRMECT, along with an argot interpretation framework called LLMResolve. These frameworks leverage the MECT model, the large language model, prompt engineering, and the DBSCAN clustering algorithm. Experimental results demonstrate that the CSRMECT framework outperforms the current optimal model by 10% in terms of the F1 value for argot recognition on the MNGG dataset, while the LLMResolve framework achieves a 4% higher accuracy in interpretation compared to the current optimal model.The related experiments undertaken also indicate a potential correlation between vector information entropy and model performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Drawing on interviews with British passport holders who moved to the United Kingdom to start University, this paper explores slang and accent as sonic spatial identities. The paper analyses the inclusions and exclusions in belonging as articulated by British mobile young people through their sonic spatial identities. In doing so, the paper extends wider conceptual debates on embodied belonging by arguing for a need to further explore the sonic as a register of belonging. It argues that research on sonic spatial identities needs to be more attuned to mobility in order to explore and challenge wider discourses of exclusion. The article concludes by offering suggestions as to how to develop research in belonging and identity on an everyday sonic register. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper provides a detailed etymological account of two hypotheses accounting for the formation of the linguistic sense of the word slang in English lowlife milieu, named the (Anglo-)Romani External Borrowing Hypothesis and the English Internal Borrowing Hypothesis. The English Internal Borrowing Hypothesis, in turn, is found to constitute four possible patterns, differing in whether the linguistic sense of slang constitutes an elaboration of its previous senses as 1) 'a piece of land'; 2) 'a cast or a pitch'; 3) 'a deceptive practice' or, by extension, 'an underworld occupation'; or 4) 'to abuse, to banter with'. The obtained etymological results confirm the tenability of the first three patterns of the English Internal Borrowing Hypothesis. Conversely, the (Anglo-)Romani External Borrowing Hypothesis proves linguistically unsubstantiated, while the fourth pattern of the English Internal Borrowing Hypothesis is found to be both morphologically and chronologically erroneous. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During adolescence, social relationships become increasingly important. The words teens use with each other become important to identity and group belonging. Teens who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) often have smaller social circles than typically-developing teens and may have limited access to the vocabulary used by their peers. This study aimed to understand more about the types of words used in peer interactions by typically-developing teens and explore their perceptions of how and why word use is important in peer interactions. Direct observation and focus group interviews were undertaken with a sample of 25 teens aged 12–15 years in Perth, Western Australia. Observation data identified frequently used word types, according to Tagliamonte's markers of teen language. Focus group interviews described three key reasons participants viewed word choices as important, highlighting the role of vocabulary in everyday peer interactions. It is vital for speech pathologists and others working with teens who use AAC to understand how teen-specific language is used within each individual's peer group, and the value of this vocabulary in supporting peer relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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As stated in the title, the article is devoted to the sociolect of youth, examined in the context of teaching Polish as a foreign, second, and heritage language. In response to the rapidly increasing number of foreign students in Poland's schools and universities, the authors investigated to what extent the indicated variety of Polish language is present in course books intended for this group of learners. The authors discuss the significant features of youth language with references to current research findings. They stress the challenges involved in incorporating such content into glotiodidactic practice. Nevertheless, they deem it necessary due to the socialising function of youth slang and its significance in shaping young people's identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]