Substandard in Literary Textsof the Second Half of the XX – Beginning of the XXI Centuries

The article talks about the use of various substandard units in artistic and artistic-journalistic texts of the second half of the 20th century − the beginning of the 21st century. In works of art of the 20th century, lexical units from various types of jargon, argot, and youth slang are significant in quantitative terms, although everything depends on the topic and communicative purpose of the author of the text. Since fiction reflects real reality rethought by the creative imagination of the author, in the 20th century in a number of literary texts the use of substandard vocabulary and phraseology became necessary. At the same time, many linguistic studies note that the activation of substandard vocabulary and its penetration into colloquial speech reduces the expressive potential of the vocabulary and phraseology of the standard, correlated with the literary language. Considering substandard vocabulary within the artistic space of Russian literature of the late 20th – early 21st centuries, it should be noted that this vocabulary has become actively in demand in works of the detective genre, in artistic and artistic-journalistic works that comprehend the era of the Great Terror, as well as in works about youth and for youth. Modern research in the field of substandard vocabulary of literary texts allows us to fully analyze the modern language space. The modern substandard implements various functions in literary texts, from nominative to cognitive and cumulative, from the expression of emotions to vivid evaluativeness. The substandard is currently becoming a source of replenishment of the stylistically reduced layer of modern colloquial speech.