The young slang in the mass-media (on the material of English press)

Introduction
The linguistics has already switched from studying a written language to researching and the analysis of the facts of language in alive communication, in the experience of informal conversation.
The important place in a wide range of forms of colloquial dialogue is borrowed by those versions of informal conversation which are defined as closed ones and are characterized by relative narrowness of social sphere of the using. Various kinds of social and professional slangs conce
to number of the given versions, and are also formed on their basis the language slang.
The theme of the given work is the features of young slang in the English press referring to the publicist style.
The publicist style has many functions. The major ones are social influence and public opinion manipulation. It has also the informative function. As the additional functions, these are propaganda, popularization, education, organiziation, analysis and criticism, hedonism (entertainment).
Stylistic features of the publicist style are the interchange of standard and expressiveness, explicit evaluation, impressive character, stylistic effects of “novelty”, advertising, mass, group social orientation, factography (documentary precision, abundance of statistics, toponymic and proper names, factual data). The stylistic features are also presented by the neutral or formal manner of presentation, generalization, the use of arguments.
Newspaper genres are presented by the editorial (leading article), newsreel, brief news report, reportage, interview, essay, title, topical satire and advertisement.
The newspaper style is featured by wide use of graphic means such as change of prints, word-arts, italics, various graphic symbols (asterisks, etc.) used for the sake of text limitation as well as elements of compositional arrangement such as columns, titles, subtitles, parts and paragraphs.
Mass media can be described as the extensive phrase...

Conclusion

The main function is communication, realization of practical activity of a person. It is used in everyday life. Extra-linguistic features of the colloquial style are informality, spontaneous character of speech, interpersonal contact and direct involvement in the process of communication, attraction of paralinguistic means of communication (gestures, expression of the face, movements).
The stylistic features are presented by the familiarity, ellipsis, concrete character of speech, interruption and logical inconsistency of the speech, emotiveness, efficacy. The secondary stylistic features are idiomatic and patte
character, “personal” type of speech presentation.
There are two forms of speech: dialogue (simple dialogue and polylogue) and monologue. The colloquial speech is featured by the inner differentiation, i.e. genre and style distinctions, caused by the communicative status, mood, aims, relations between the speakers, situation and theme of the conversation.
The slang is the version of colloquial speech estimated by a society as an informal one.
The term “slang” has become current in the English lexicography in the beginning of the XIXth century and has passed in its definition a way from wide understanding when the phonetic, lexical, morphological and syntactic divergences with the established language norms were brought under this term up to its today's definition: slang is the version of informal speech, where the vocabulary structure differs by the novelty and frequent changes.
In the English lexicography the term “slang” has received a wide spreading approximately in the beginning of the XXth century. The ethymology of this term is represented disputable and it was not precisely established by any of the linguists engaging in this problem.
The following categories of words and word combinations have the label “slang” in various dictionaries:
3. The words conce
ing a thieves’ language, for example:
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