Tsar I. Ukrainian everyday language in the urban youth environment: structure and functioning.

For the first time Ukrainian linguistics described, based on everyday language records, a youth’s language in complex. The complex analysis methodology of everyday youth’s language in the context of bilingualism not only involves a multi-level analysis of the research material itself, but also social and situational parameters (age, gender, education, profession, language of everyday communication, the ability of speakers to switch language codes, conditions of a communicative situation, interlocutors’ status, their communicative goals, ideological views, etc.). It is found that in informal spontaneous everyday situations young people use their own peculiar language system, which is characterized by a specific lexical composition, functionates according to the grammatical norms inherent in oral colloquial speech in general, which is marked by expressiveness and game orientation. In the process of unprepared communication young people actively create author's neologisms, phraseologisms, metaphorically rethink lexemes existing in the language, borrow words mainly from the English and Russian languages, giving them new shades of meaning. The reduction, simplification of lexical units, saving linguistic means, attention to content, rather than the order of speech flow are the typical features of the youth communication. Simplification of syntactic structure and its expansion are simultaneously important for youth’s language. Simplification is conditioned by the existence of incomplete, elliptical sentences, parsed constructions, omissions of relationship between sentences, domination of pronouns and analytic linguistic units. Expansion is characterized by the presence of inserted structures.