This article reveals the role of word-building in the performance of such drug addicts' jargon functions as nominative, utilitarian, worldview, pseudo-aesthetic, playing, agitational, symbolic, identification, and conspiratorial. Based on... more
This article reveals the role of word-building in the performance of such drug addicts' jargon functions as
nominative, utilitarian, worldview, pseudo-aesthetic, playing, agitational, symbolic, identification, and conspiratorial. Based on a material of vocabulary gathered during the regional sociolinguistic studies, as well as in the analysis of dictionaries of drug addicts’ jargon the word-building means of implementing of named functions are studied; the issue of natural causes of drug addicts' jargon "conspiracy" is discussed; it is concluded that drug addicts' jargon is not a primitive subsystem of their language, and its negative assessment on the part of scientists is often caused by a negative attitude to the phenomenon of drug addiction.
nominative, utilitarian, worldview, pseudo-aesthetic, playing, agitational, symbolic, identification, and conspiratorial. Based on a material of vocabulary gathered during the regional sociolinguistic studies, as well as in the analysis of dictionaries of drug addicts’ jargon the word-building means of implementing of named functions are studied; the issue of natural causes of drug addicts' jargon "conspiracy" is discussed; it is concluded that drug addicts' jargon is not a primitive subsystem of their language, and its negative assessment on the part of scientists is often caused by a negative attitude to the phenomenon of drug addiction.
