Naujieji skoliniai lietuvių jaunimo diskurse
New Loanwords in Lithuanian Youth Discourse

Summary/Abstract: Although youth discourse has been attracting researchers’ attention for a long time, no unanimous approach exists as far as its definition is concerned, neither are research trends that best define the particularity of youth discourse described. Having analyzed the most important works summarising or related to youth discourse, three major trends of youth discourse research can be distinguished. Traditional approach can be ascribed to the first trend, when the elements used in youth discourse are evaluated from the point of view of the norm. According to sociolinguists, youth discourse is perceived as a way of speaking, through which the youth express their belonging to a particular group. The third trend addresses the connection of the research on youth discourse to culture studies that embrace the diversity of youth subcultures in Western culture.

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