THE USE OF JARGON INSTEAD OF DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES IN THE SPEECH OF THE GYMNASIUM STUDENTS IN VRANJE

Abstract

The study analyzes the impact the adolescent jargon in bigger, urban areas has on the smaller, provincial regions; the eff ect that jargon has on the use of standard language, specifically refl ecting its use in the domain of descriptive adjectives. The results indicate that the most frequent jargons are those that are not semantically diff erentiated and the analysis also implies that they obtain their semantic value when found in specifi c context, co referring with the concrete concept. Likewise, there is an evident tendency to use descriptive adjectives of general meaning (good, great, bad…), whereas when an adjective, such as strong, dangerous, powerful is used because of the context in which it appears (e.g. with the concept cell phone) it is treated as a jargon variant.