Sociolect of primary school students

The diploma thesis is focusing on sociolect, specifically on a sociolect of primary school students. The objective of this thesis is to define the term sociolect and sociolect of students, to describe its origin and functioning. This will be verified by factual research. The theorethical part of this study is based on defining the term sociolect and related terms such as standard and non-standard use of the Czech language. This thesis works with specialised literature which is related to sociolect, describes methods of creation of slang expressions and deals with the sociological view on this issue. It also includes descriptions of sociolect of students, its linguistic variations, features, and cathegorizations of expressions. Part of this study is based on questionnaire research, which is supposed to confirm or disprove the premises related to sociolect of students of primary school and a short dictionary, which includes various slang expressions of students in the primary school. KEYWORDS Sociolect, Sociolect of students, primary school aged child, student of primary school, slang, argot, non-standard use of the Czech language