Modern Man in Youthspeak (Research Based on the Material of the Observatory of Youth Language and Culture)

The article aims to conduct a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the lexis related to human collected on the website of the Observatory of Youth Language and Culture. The linguistic material obtained from the Observatory’s database covers data from 1 May 2021 to 11 September 2023. It comprises 389 lexical units, constituting a database of dictionary entries, of which 189 units represent the semantic domain HUMAN. In addition to the analysis of vocabulary reported or used by teenagers, the article describes pragmatic contexts related to the understanding, function and modification of new meanings. For this purpose, a corpus of 28,482 words was collected, consisting of 1,842 examples of the use of structures from the Observatory. The analysis of the material confirmed the existence of categorization schemes created during youth interactions.