The slang of young Russians and French: reinventing scientific linguistic collaboration in the age of coronavirus and containment
[Les argots des jeunes Russes et Français : réinventer la collaboration linguistique scientifique a l'ere du coronavirus et du confinement]
Larisa G. Vikulova – Larisa V. Ukhova – Zhanna K. Gaponova – Lina V. Razumova – Polina S. Ukhova
DOI: 10.18355/XL.2021.14.04.16
Abstract
From the beginning, remote work was considered in connection with social and environmental problems. The pandemic and coronavirus have left many teachers and researchers unable to experiment with online work. This new way of organizing work is at the heart of exciting research in various fields: remote collaborative science, imaging, training, and distance learning are an opportunity to demonstrate relevance and find new ways of working and interacting. This article is in the framework of a scientific project carried out over a year at a distance. He deals with the problem of learning the youth language (youth slang, the term is used in Russian linguistics) and aims to present the results of a comparative study of the structural and semantic features of shale of Russian and French youth. Language experiments are based on data from students of Yaroslavl State University and the University of Poitiers. The first part deals with the description of the procedure for collecting, verifying, and processing language data, as well as the methodology for collecting; it is based on psycholinguistic experiments, field studies, and sociological studies conducted in the student environment of the two countries. The second part of the article presents the results of the semantic and structural analysis of lexical units, morphological and semantic families representing argotisms (slanguismes, in Russian) of young people recorded during the survey. The derivational mechanisms used in French and Russian youth slang are studied and interpreted. This allowed the authors to discover language universals common to young Russian and French speakers, as well as to identify culturally relevant linguistic units capable of modelling and presenting the collective identity of Russian and French students, their language image of the world, and their language personality.
Key words: Youth slang, field research, derivative mechanisms, linguistic picture of the world, collective linguistic personality, universal and culturally marked language code, axiology, assessment