Bodnar R. The sociolect of teenagers as the subculture of modern linguocommunity

The thesis is devoted to the study of the contemporary teenspeak on the material of live talks of British teenagers and on-line dictionaries of teenage slang. The systematic analysis of the material under study revealed the main psychological, physiological and sociocultural factors that influence teenagers' speech and communicative behaviour. Teenspeak is viewed as the means of reflecting norms and values that dominate within the age-group and determine the motives of teens verbal and non-verbal behaviour. The thesis is also devoted to the analysis of the main models of lexical and semantic word-formation, used by modern teenagers for coining new expressive means of communication, and to the description of structural peculiarities of teens' spontaneous dialogical speech. The paper highlights typical and occasional deviations from grammar rules and paralinguistic features of teens' spontaneous communication.