ИЗ НАБЛЮДЕНИЙ НАД ЖИВОЙ РАЗГОВОРНОЙ РЕЧЬЮ СТУДЕНТОВ
FROM OBSERVATIONS MADE ON THE STUDENTS EVERYDAY SPEECH

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article lived for three years in a room with Russian students in a hostel in Leningrad. During this period he made notes on the students’ jargon. The students in the faculty of philosophy of the Leningrad State University were his subjects. They all came to Leningrad from different parts of the Soviet Union. The author came to some conclusions as far as the students’ jargon is concerned. Thus the words used by the students are not included in Russian explanatory dictionaries or they have quite another meaning. The students’ speech is also characterized by parenthesis which slows down the speech and in this way helps them to find the necessary word. And finally the original desire for the so-called universal words can be observed in the students’ jargon. As for example such words as ‘мужик’ (man), ‘девушка’ (girl) are used in different situations and with different meanings, more often as a form of address. The same can be said about the words ‘банка’ (pot) ‘многостаночник’ (multimachine operative).

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