Abstract. The present study examines the concept of „youth sociolect“, determines the status of the sociolect speech of young people and its role in the modern Bulgarian and Russian languages. The research aims to study the content of non-literary language formations within the framework of the national language, to reveal some linguistic features of the sociolect and the reasons for its use, to analyze the ways of replenishing its lexical fund.
Keywords: youth sociolect, slang, jargon, comparative analysis, borrowings, Bulgarian language, Russian language
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I express my gratitude for the financial support of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences under the bilateral grant agreement between the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Romanian Academy.
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