Инновационный Евразийский Университет Кафедра «Английская филология и перевод» Слайд-лекция по дисциплине «Диалектология» на тему «Social Language Differentiation» Для студентов специальности «Иностранный язык: два иностранных языка» Разработал: ст. преп. Рудевский А.О.

План лекции 1.Slang. 2.Group, or corporate slangs. 3.Cant slang. 4.Sources of slang.

Slang slang very informal words, phrases, or meanings, not regarded as standard and often used by a specific profession, class, etc.; slang - words or expressions that are very informal and that are not considered suitable for formal situations;

Group or corporate slangs Corporate slang is a slang used in business communication of corporations. Law enforcement slang ASNT: Area Searched No Trace; FATAC: Fatal Road Traffic Accident; POLAC: Road Traffic Accident Involving Police Officers and/or Police Motor Veichles; MFH: Missing From Home; NAI: Non-Accidental Injury; RTA: Road-Traffic Accident.

Volleyball slang Cut / Cut shot : attack with an extreme angle (nearly parallel to the net); Dig : A defensive contact following an opponent's attack resulting in a playable ball; Double contact / Double : A fault in which a player contacts the ball with two body parts consecutively; D.S. : The abbreviation for "defensive specialist", a position player similar to the libero.

Medical slang Appy - a person's appendix or a patient with appendicitis; ART - Assuming Room Temperature (dying); ATS - Acute Thespian Syndrome (the patient is faking illness); Bagging - manually helping a patient breathe using an Ambu bag attached to a mask that covers the face.

Cant slang Cant is an example of an argot or cryptolect, a characteristic or secret language used only by members of a group, often used to conceal the meaning from those outside the group. The origin of the word cant itself has not been agreed upon. The word may be derived from the Irish word caint ("speech, talk"), or it may be from the English word "chant"or Latin cantare.

Sources of slang The main slang sources: alliteration - boing-boing = fat person; numbnuts=unlikeable male; metaphor - swamp donkey / cow / gravel = unattractive female; acronyms - NBS = nearest bottle store; antonymy - beaut = unattractive woman; borrowing from other languahes;

adapting from other languages; euphemisms - snuff it, kick the bucket; hyperbole - drop Garth from the team = vomit; metonymy - fluff / meat = attractive female; neologisms - babinski / schweet = attractive girl; onomatopoeia - ralph = vomit;

words with shifted denotation – channel = vomit; tanked / toasted = drunk.

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