Lexical and semantic peculiarities of English slang

In any branch each period of time determines the most relevant research areas
and highlights certain problems. New forms of social relations to some extent affect
the youth – the most promising social layer of society which language competence
and verbal behavior determines the direction of development of other social language
subsystems. The youth’s slang as the language of everyday communication is a kind
of indicator of young people’s level of development, interests, tastes and needs. Slang
was the main reason for the development of prescriptive language in an attempt to
slow down the rate of change in both spoken and written language.