HYBRIDIZATION OF TYPES OF SOCIALLY MARKED VOCABULARY IN MODERN ITALIAN FICTION
HYBRIDIZATION OF TYPES OF SOCIALLY MARKED VOCABULARY IN MODERN ITALIAN FICTION

Summary/Abstract: The article explores trends towards mixing of socially marked vocabulary and the use of its hybrid types in modern Italian fiction text. The objective of this research is to highlight modern trends in the use of socially marked vocabulary in modern Italian prose fiction as well as the possibility of determining whether specific lexical belong to the certain types of socially marked vocabulary. The article employs complex methodology engaging both general scientific methods such as analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, and linguistic methods, namely descriptive method, component analysis in its extrapolation concerning the issue of defining various kinds of socially marked vocabulary in lexical units. Writers employ socially marked vocabulary in modern Italian fiction prose in order to create imagery and it is represented by dialects, jargon, colloquial vocabulary, vulgarisms, obscene vocabulary, youth slang. Lexemes of these types are often combined thus forming hybrid lexical units and rendering it impossible to determine their belonging to just one type of socially marked vocabulary. The author makes the decision concerning the choice of such lexical units depending on the qualities of characters or narrators as well as in search of an original writing style. Modern Italian fiction prose writers saturate their texts with socially marked vocabulary, which nowadays can be considered part of the literary language. The boundaries between different types of socially marked vocabulary in modern Italian have become blurred as evidenced their blended use in fiction.

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