Slang as ethnospecific phenomenon of the Australian and New Zealand communicative space
The paper deals with the problem of Australian and New Zealand slang, its ethno specific features and functioning in modern communicative space. Australian slang can be characterized as one of racial type. There is a tendency for its items to nominate phenomena of antisocial nature. Various features of New Zealand communicative space are analyzed, the most essential among them are the following: a special form (reduced) of rhyming slang, influence of agricultural industry on word-building, Maori borrowings and their assimilation in general slang.