Stoliar M. Youth Slang in Ukrainian Postmodern Prose: Pragmalinguistic Aspect

The thesis presents detailed multi-dimensional factual research data analysis that singles out the extra-linguistic and actually linguistic youth slang (YS) features as well as proves the scientific relevance of the YS pragmalinguistic interpretation in the Ukrainian postmodern prose (UPP) as an extraordinary research source, which is certified by the correlation between the postmodern discourse system-creating elements and the YS inner nature.The work justifies the expediency of utilizing the comprehensive research apparatus, offers the UPP YS research algorithm which consists of 4 stages: 1) comprising the factual data collecting and systematizing; 2) defining YS semantic and axiological qualification; 3) describing the YS influential power elucidating; 4) generalizing the results