New Material Nouns in the Russian Argot

Abstract

Relevance of the problem under study is determined by the necessity of research of new slangy words that call different narcotic substances. They illustrate the facts of criminal life and cognition about them may help to fight against illegal drug trafficking in Russia. The purpose of the research is to identify the semantic, word-formative and grammatical peculiarities of those material nouns that are non-fixed in the dictionaries of the Russian argot till now. The specifics of slangy vocabulary is studied by using the method of linguistic observation and description, in some cases the features of the argotic words are revealed by context analysis. The result of the research was a composition of new vocabulary of the slangy material nouns in which linguists can find all lexical and grammatical characteristics of the words. The article can be useful for language experts, who study substandard forms of Russian language, and for the law enforcement officials.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3s7p431