языковая игра

Аrticle is dedicated to the issues of speech behavior of African-American population of the United States. The author considers both models of verbal behavior of African Americans (language game, signification) and non-verbal forms which serve as a source of replenishment of the dictionary of African-American social and ethnic dialect.

The article provides an overview of lurkoyaz’s functioning characteristics as a specific Internet language. It demonstrates the main genre characteristics of Lurkomorye as an Internet encyclopedia. The article describes how irony and humor are created by means of ludems on different lurkoyaz language levels. Specific features of such lurkoyaz language play units as liturativ, errativ, onomatopea, nonce formation are identified.

The article examines the problem of the use of language game in high school teachers’ speech in communication with the students. The conclusions drawn in the article are founded on the analysis of the results of the questionnaire which had been held among the students of Saratov State University.

In the article, playing techniques of the schoolchildren’s reactions, the causes and the modes of the design of non-usage words are investigated on the material of the Associative Dictionary of the Schoolchildren of Saratov and the Saratov Region. Such reactions are considered as the manifestation of linguistic creativity of the schoolchildren.