STATUS OF ARGOT IN THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE OF THE WORLD

STATUS OF ARGOT IN THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE OF THE WORLD

Author:  Uskova A.I.

Affiliation:  Air Force Academy named after Professor N.Y. Zhukovskiy and Yu.A. Gagarin (in Voronezh)

Abstract:  The author considers the problem of determining the place of argot in the English- language picture of the world, describes the hierarchy of subcultural values, pays considerable attention to the emotive aspect of the argotic lexicon.

Keywords:  argot, picture of the world, subculture, emotive aspect

References: 

Ускова А.И. Статус арго в английском языке и художественной речи: диссертация ... кандидата филологических наук. Воронеж, 2014.
Dalzell T. The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English / T.Dalzell, T. Victor. Routledge, 2007.

Pages:  864-866