Określenia nauczycieli i uczniów w rosyjskim młodzieżowym argot

Abstract

This article focuses on Russian youth argots denoting teachers and lecturers, pupils and students. The research material has been excerpted from the Great Dictionary of Russian Jargon (Большой словарь русского жаргона). The analyzed corpus includes expressions denoting teachers in general and teachers of separate subjects too. Argots describing pupils mainly refer to conscientious and exemplary pupils whereas expressions defining students reflect young people's interests. The research revealed that the most productive way of creating argots belonging to the analyzed lexical and semantic group is semantic derivation. On the other hand, a group of suffix derivatives, which is dominated by substantival structures, is characterized by slightly lower frequency. Subject alternation and mutilation appeared to be hardly productive word formative procedures that are used to create expressions denoting teachers and pupils. English word borrowings constitute a small group as well.