FICTION TEXTS ABOUT TEENAGERS AND THE LANGUAGE OF THE 21ST CENTURY GENERATION

Svitlana BYBYK,
Doctor of Philology, Professor, Leading researcher of the Department of Stylistics, Culture of the Language and Sociolinguistics,
Institute of the Ukrainian Language of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;
4 Mykhaila Hrushevskoho St., Kyiv 01001, Ukraine;
e-mail: sbybyk2016@ukr.net
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9765-497X

Heading: TO ASSIST TEACHERS
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract
The article is devoted to the linguistic-stylistic analysis of modern works about teenagers, which are proposed for study in the Ukrainian literature course for the New Ukrainian School. The material of the works draws attention to the context of linguosophy of modern existence: what figures of speech are symbols of relationships in real school or extracurricular life between peers and adults? What is the linguistic behavior of school youth?
In assessing the language of Oksana Saiko’s stories “Novenka”, Irene Rozdobudko’s “Arsen” and Volodymyr Arіenіev’s story “Sapiens”, attention is focused on the portrait characteristics of the main characters – children aged 12–13. It is noted that a significant component of socio-cultural identification, which is involved by writers, is the language of teenagers of three models: realistic modern, illusory-fantasy and prognostic-fantasy.
The conclusion is made about the interaction in the linguistic portrait of teenagers of the slang lexicon, markers of socio-cultural identity (national and globalized, which predominates) – common and proper names, phraseological units, terminological combinations. The features of the active vocabulary of a teenager of the early 21st century and the layer of extra-dictionary vocabulary are noted.
Key words: adolescent language, vocabulary, identity marker, sociocultural factor of communication, slang, proper name.

REFERENCES
Bybyk, S. (2024 а). Genre-stylistic dimension of the linguocultural “generation”: vectority in modeling the language image of a teenager in the modern drama of Marina Smilyanets “16+”. Proceedings of the IV International Slavic Conference dedicated to the memory of Saints Cyril and Methodius: “Slavic Humanities in Current Research Paradigms”. O.O. Malenko, ed. (рр. 152–157). Kharkiv – Shumen: KhNPU; KhIFT (in Ukr.).
Bybyk, S. (2024 b). Verbal image of a modern teenager (Based on the story by S. Gridin “Not Such”). Culture of the Word, 100, 119–133. https://doi.org/10.37919/0201-419X-2024.100.10 (in Ukr.).

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