Pragmalinguistic features of oral speech of Soviet and Russian youth

the article presents the results of a study of the oral speech of Soviet and modern Russian young people aged 13 to 23. The transcripts were compared using the author's method of pragmalinguistic analysis. It was shown that Soviet schoolchildren and students used significantly more author's syntagmas, occasionalisms, proverbs and sayings, phraseological units, catchphrases, aphorisms and other types of quotation, as well as words with a connotative meaning in their speech. And vice versa – they allowed significantly fewer vulgarisms, officialisms, obscene vocabulary, speech errors, truisms and cliches. The study clearly demonstrates the difference between the speech of young people of the pre-digital and modern eras. The norm of proficiency in Russian among modern teenagers is noticeably lower compared to their Soviet peers. The obtained results correlate with the data of parallel studies of the oral and written speech of representatives of the Soviet and modern eras. Previously, the author of this article analyzed speech samples of professional authors of media communications, heroes of films and TV series of the designated periods. In addition, school essays of young consumers of Soviet and modern media content were analyzed. It is shown how speech samples for imitation broadcast by authors of media communications influence the speech of the younger generation.

pragmalinguistics, oral speech, youth, media communications