Презентация к уроку английского языка "Anglo – American youth slang" - скачать

The main aims:

We try to analyze the useful features of slang in our speech, to answer the questions if slang “poisons” and “pollutes” the modern language, if it has the full right to exist?
analyses of articles, newspapers, dictionaries,
information from the Internet
classification of slang

Methods:

judder, hacker

coffee – brew
money – bread
television - boob tube
body – bod
food - grub
hands - pad

in different parts of the country we can watch the existence of language variants:
YooKay (UK in Chinese interpretation).
Y’all (you (in Texas))
Howdy (How are you? (In Texas))

Jargonizmes
(“She can be such a bitch
(a very unpleasant woman)
sometimes”, -
said my schoolmate)

Vulgarisms
(She has a great bod
(body), - said Tom)

Professionalisms
(You have beautiful ivories
(teeth), - said the dentist)

lexics

nonliterary

literary

1. the speech of social and professionally limited

groups is opposed to the literary language;

2. the variant of colloquial speech (expressively

coloured elements of speech) doesn’t consider

with the norms of literary language.

2.the independent existence
of the term “slang”:
Airhead: stupid person.
“Believe it or not. Dave can
sometimes act like an airhead!”
Dirt: extremely bad person.
“My ex – boyfriend was dirt.”
Pissed: angry.
“I’m really pissed at you.”

3.the word “slang” is used as an item of
jargon words: What you get
in bucks? (“Get” to understand
something; “bucks” –
money).

I got the message! Or: I caught it!
(I understand).
Mind you own business (Don’t put
you long nose into other people affairs).
It hurts like hell (very sick).

TV Slang

1. Banana Slugs
University of California, Santa Cruz
2. Black Flies
College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine
3. Boll Weevils
University of Arkansas – Monticello
4. Green Terror
McDaniel College, Westminster, MD

Slang in slogans

Situation in the city bus

Two young people quarrel with each other (one

has hurt another passenger’s foot)

creation by collective activity.

communicative function of slang

slang as a universal type of language, emphasizes ties of English slang with other standard linguistic items of different countries. Nada from Portugal that means nothing; Amigo that is friend and Dinero as money (from Spanish); Aloha Hawaien word (Love).