This work on "Contemporary Russian Youth Slang" is an ideal text for advanced students and teachers of Russian language, lexicology and sociolinguistics. The book discusses the history of youth slang research; social and psychological variables and their significance in slang functioning, as well as peculiarities of Russian youth language on the Internet. This volume presents the analysis of word formation in Russian slang and describes various ways of slang vocabulary development. Based on sociolinguistic fieldwork the study examines the attitude of Russian speakers toward slang and clarifies the relationship between patterns in the usage of slang and social variables such as age, education and gender.weiterlesen