LEXICAL MEANS OF EXPRESSION OF SOCIAL CONFLICT IN SUBCULTURAL ASPECT
This article is devoted to the study of such a relevant topic of modern linguistics, sociolinguistics and linguoculturology as subculture and its linguistic methods of expression 227 and implementation. As an object of study, the hip - hop subculture is analyzed, which has its own unique linguistic component - rap text. The uniqueness of rap lies in its acute social character, the unity of the author and the artist (in majority of cases, it is the same person), as well as a set of special, imaginative, emotionally - colored linguistic means of expression that can have a great impact on society, make one think or decide on some action. The article presents an algorithm for considering a social conflict by differentiating its volume, a representation of the types of social conflict in rap texts of both English and Russian, as well as a rating of lexical expressive means used by rap authors and performers.