Key words: tonality of youth discourse, national mentality, phatic tonality, mentorial tonality.
Introduction.
National mentality and cultural specificities still take an important part in the formation of
the communicative behavior of young people, despite of the culture globalization in the virtual space and real
world. Linguistic cultures of the English, Kazakh and Russian languages initially have quite different
nationally indicated communicative behavior. Specifically, the distinctive feature of current English linguistic
culture is a maximum democratization of communication between the young generation and adulthood and
advanced age. Young people (especially young men) have some tendencies to verbal competition, active
aggression and game behavior. Russian linguistic culture is characterized by simplicity and openness at all
levels of communication, which are demonstrated by young people. Kazakh linguistic culture is more closed
in the manifestation of sincere feelings, but it is opened in relation to representatives of the older generation as
much as possible. Age is considered sacred and the level of generational communication is full of restrictions
and rules, which are followed by the young people. These properties are inherent in youth discourse in its
everyday form, which occurs in real life.
Considering the youth discourse at the micro level, it is necessary to characterize the current condition of
its grammatical layer, which as well unique and full of contradictions. Certainly, not only the lexical level is
specific, because the young people are the initiators of language modifications almost at all levels from the
phonetic level to the discourse [1,p.2].
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Grammatical side of the speech should not be underestimate, because the language utterances can be
effectively interpreted at the intersection of the grammar and the discourse context. I.P. Martinez noted that
the grammar of youth language practice is characterized by the following features: a significant simplification
of grammatical rules, intentioned ignoring of complex turns of speech, incomplete sentences reasoned by
general background knowledge of communicants. It is also possible to add the lack of coherence in the
discourse, inversion in sentences, tautologies and excessive use of enhancers of adjectives and adverbs,
distortion of orthographic, orthoepic and punctuation norms of the language. A.B. Stanstrom and others
emphasized the frequency of the use of several negations in the speech of young people that contradicts to the
norms of English grammar, the changing of irregular verbs and use them as correct in the past tense, the adding
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to the adjective in the comparative degree where it is not required and so much more.
At the level of orthography among the English-speaking youth, it can be noticed a lot of new variations of
words. For example, nuffink, transformed from nothing, originates from cockney, vernacular of the middle
and lower classes of the population of London; cos, reduced from because. The distortion of auxiliary verbs
with combinations has been transformed, presumably due to phonetic assimilation, for example dunno (do not
know), wunnit (was not it), dunnit (does not it). This tendency has already moved from a purely youth to a
common speech. In the Kazakh language, arose the adaptation of the proper names to the morphological norms
of the Russian language due to of its influence. So, the names, which are not inflected according to the norms
of orthography, began to modify and inflect: Айнура (from Айнұр) - Айнуре, с Айнурой, об Айнуре;
Жанара (from Жанар) – Жанару, Жанаре [2, c.96]. It is also grammatically incorrect to put the stress at the
not last syllable in the proper names. This contradicts the norms of the Kazakh language, which are
nevertheless not observed in the current language. These once-emerged innovations of young people are
already an integral part of everyday speech and the adult generation for the current day, although not accepted
in the literary language. Russian-speaking young people are as much inclined to violate the rules of ort hope
and orthography, which are catch the eye in the social networks.
The verbal system is highly subject to changes in youth discourse. Reduction and simplification in the
agreement of the predicate with the subject, the no agreement of the times are the most frequent forms of
violation of the rules. The lowering of sentence members is a common feature for youth discourse regardless
of linguistic culture. Availability of the common background knowledge, which allows to speak by reducing
the speech to the minimum can serve as explanation of the lowering of obligatory components. Such form of
statements corresponds to the principle of quantity in speech communication, according to which during it
shall be said no more and less that is required by this situation. Despite the fact that this phenomenon is intrinsic
not only to youth but also to the stand-up genre in general, in the youth discourse there has been the highest
degree of spontaneity, rapid speech-reaction to the speech-stimulus (*often including game elements,
demonstration of resourcefulness), the desire to reduce utterances. Abundance of negative constructs in
sentences is seen noticed among British teenagers comparing to adults. This is due to the cognitive and
psychological features of teenage years, when communicants need self-affirmation in the course of
communication, a desire to express themselves clearly and categorically is realized. The functions of negative
constructions depend on the context.
V.I. Karasik noted that the communicative tonality implies the emotional-style format of communication
that arises during the process of mutual influence between communication participants, determines their
changing settings, the choice of means of communication [3, p.388]. For example, communication depending
on the situation can be regarded by communicants in different ways: in one case as information, in another -
entertainment, and sometimes as an empty conversation or even a work of art, etc. The following types of
communicative tonality are singled out: informative tonality, which is a serious communication for the purpose
of communicating any information; phatic tonality, which are different by dynamism in order to create
comfortable communication conditions; status tonality, in which communicants mutually position each other;
playful tonality, which is characterized as a frivolous reduced emotional communication on a short distance;
solemn tonality, confirming group identity; Ideological tonality, which distinguishes "one's own" from
"another's"; fascinate tonality, in which attention is paid to the aesthetic side of communication, pleasure from
the perception of what has been said; memorial tonality, in which one communicant emphasizes his superiority
over the other [4, p.390]. In addition, there is also a hypothetical, aggressive, esoteric, manipulative tonalities
are allocated, the name of which speak to themselves in their determination. Tonality can define both verbal
means of expression, and nonverbal (Patting on the back of the interlocutor, frowning browse, a side long
glance etc.). Phonetic aspects of communication (Tone of voice, intonation, melodic and temporal components,
prosody) are also to be considered important [5].
Youth discourse in their majority of its personality-oriented, often usable, logically excludes the importance
of the faces aspect of communication, because the verbal ways of expressing thoughts and their aesthetic level
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in this case is not fundamentally important. Also to the untypical tonality for youth communication can be
attributed esoteric, as a result of which mysticism and accordingly all related to it (rituals, magic) were among
the least popular among the possible interests. Therefore, such a tonality is possible only in joking situations.
Informative tonality could be possible for youth discourse because despite the frivolity of communication, the
goal of any interaction, most often is the exchange of information. This does not mean that the conversation
should take place completely without unnecessary emotions. Tonality can change more than once during the
same conversation.
CONCLUSIONS.
Of course, it is possible to speculate about the tonality on the basis of the way, which is
used by communicants in order to interpret the mode of communication in this situation. This discourse is a
good example, in which the tonalities are changed quickly, and several rather contradictory ones are presented.
But taking into consideration the spontaneity and speed of the reaction of youth communication, such
transitions are very typical for discourse. In general, in youth discourse, it is possible to observe a wide range
of palettes of different tonalities.
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