«Не трожь молодежь!»: A Portrait of Urban Youthspeak and the Russian Language in the 21st Century

Authors

Thomas J. Garza

Keywords

Soviet empire, society, Russian language, politics

Abstract

As the reality of a shattered Soviet empire began to enter the collective Russian consciousness in the early 1990s, the effects of a multiplicity of previously forbidden global influences began to emerge in virtually every arena of the new post-Soviet society, including within the Russian language itself. From mass media to commerce to politics, the language began to show the effects of the assimilation of previously unfamiliar lexicon and situational usage, as well as of the introduction of non-Russian neologisms in substantial numbers.

Recommended Citation

Garza, Thomas J. (2008) "«Не трожь молодежь!»: A Portrait of Urban Youthspeak and the Russian Language in the 21st Century," Russian Language Journal: Vol. 58: Iss. 1.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70163/0036-0252.1213
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rlj/vol58/iss1/11