Author’s name:
Lakshitha Withanachchi – Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Abstract:
The article compares Russian and Sinhala criminal sociolects, and its main objectives are to provide a theoretical foundation for modern studies of criminal sociolects and to present practical outcomes of a comparative analysis of Russian and Sinhalese criminal argots. Based on the current literature on linguistics of socio-dialects, the author draws a distinction between the terms ‘argot’, ‘jargon’, and ‘slang’, describing key features of each, and attempts to compare Russian and Sinhala speakers who use argotisms in their speech. The novelty and relevance of the research lie in the fact that in Sri Lanka, at the moment, there are no studies related to such topics, even though the criminal culture there exists like in any other country, which means that the criminal subculture where criminal argot is used is very much in evidence. The article also describes the problem related to translation of argotisms and substantiates the need to create a bilingual dictionary of argots. The results of the study are presented in the table of comparative analysis of Russian and Sinhalese criminal sociolects and their key features.
| Section | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE |
| DOI: | 10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2024-67-3-9-17 |
| Downloads | 95 |
| Key words | argot; languages; Russian; Sinhalese; analysis |