Twenty-year olds know the word chuvak, or the second birth of a slang unit
This article examines the pragmatic meaning of the slang lexeme chuvak [dude], primarily when used as an address. The study aims to identify the components of this pragmatic meaning that contributed to the resurgence of the lexical unit in the 21st century after a period of usage decline and oblivion....
Solidarity strategies in adolescent communication
... emotional state; decreasing the imposition with lexical means, markers of in-group identity; friend’s supporting through an offer and a jokily threat, language game (rhyming and deliberate mispronouncing), politeness marker "please" and its slang equivalent “pazhe”, minimizing the degree of a favour; using markers of group identity (“brother”), offering help and threating jokingly, using puns (rhyme and deliberate change of the phonetic form of a word), and increasing volume and ...
