Lexico-semantic Field of American Youth Slang

The article is devoted to the description of lexico-semantic fields of the youth American slang, which were identified on the basis of analyzing screen-scripts of modern American film for the young. Methods of research: critical analysis of the topic literature, search for slangizms, in the screen-scripts, classification of slangizms into corresponding lexico-semantic fields, groups, thematic groups, cognitive classes, as well as considering their semantics and lexicographic features.

slang, American slang, youth slang, lexico-semantic field and group, thematic group, cognitive class, word organization, semantics, lexicology