Музички жаргон младих и Молодежный музыкальный сленг. Компаративни поглед
Youth Music Jargon and Youth Slang. A Comparative View: Serbian-Russian

Author(s): Sofija Miloradović
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music, Applied Linguistics, Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Philology
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: slang; music; youth population; Serbia; Russia
Summary/Abstract: This monograph considers a type of the youth slang which refers to the world of music as one of the very important interest areas of the young people (some of whom are deeply involved in it while others are just gathered around it), and which also labels them as members of the particular social group, serving them too ― which is here less important ― as a tool for affirming themselves within the group. Namely, it is about the young adults whose way of speech witnesses the way how they feel, experience and interprete the musical reality. This heterogeneous group of the young people, who may differ in social background and educational level, do share, however, a common communication code (lexicon) relative to the musical context. The monograph presents how the slang lexemes listed in the appended Serbian and Russian music mini-lexicons have been created or, in particular, (1) the models of their structure formation, including the productivity and frequency of some suffixes, their meaning/function, as well as characteristic details from the derivation point of view; (2) their semantic motivation for naming certain entities. The chapter entitled Obratni muzički pogled na žargonizme [A "Reverse Musical View" on the Slang Lexemes] analyses the slang use of musical terms for naming various non-music entities and concepts. Finally, a comparative analysis of the two mini-lexicons has been undertaken on a synchronic perspective in order to highlight the basic structural correspondences between the music slangs of the young people from the two Slavic milieus.

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