New loanwords in Lithuanian youth discourse

Jaunimo diskurso tyrimai pastaruoju metu yra labai aktualūs. Tyrėjai dažnai akcentuoja, kad jaunimo tekstuose gausiai vartojami naujieji skoliniai. Šiame straipsnyje pristatomas lietuvių jaunimo diskurse vartojamų naujųjų skolinių tyrimas. Atliekama kokybinė jaunimo diskurso skolinių semantikos, kilmės, integracijos į diskursą polinkių analizė, aptariamos skolinių lietuvių jaunimo diskurse skolinimosi priežastys ir vartojimo funkcijos.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 analysed 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. The usage of the elements of foreign languages is often mentioned when defining youth discourse. Therefore, the object of this research is new loanwords in Lithuanian that were not recorded in Lithuanian dictionaries published before 1990 or noted in Lithuanian youth discourse. New loanwords were collected from different printed and electronic resources containing texts written for or about the youth in 2014–2016. The research data includes 310 titles of new loanwords, and examples of text excerpts illustrating the research object taken from more than 100 different articles written for or about the youth and representing printed and informational electronic space. The articles were collected from the New Loanwords database in 2014–2016. The aim of the research is to analyse the origins, semantic groups, main reasons for using and functions of new loanwords in Lithuanian youth discourse. Qualitative analysis of the new loanwords in Lithuanian youth discourse was conducted. When selecting texts ascribed to youth discourse, primary attention was allotted to the age of the addressor and the addressee. The texts created by the youth (school or university students aged 12–25 having no professional experience) and for the youth are ascribed to youth discourse [...]