The Peculiarities of Functioning of Uncodified Lexical Units in Students' Environmen
The article is devoted to the study of functioning of uncodified lexical units in the communication of first- and second-year students of the intramural form of training. The author uses questionnaires and direct interviewing to gather the empiric material and analyses the revealed uncodified variants of such standard lexical units as a student and a teacher. Special attention is paid to the factors defining the number of uncodified variants of this or that standard lexical unit. Specific examples showing the influence of the revealed factors on the creation and functioning of uncodified lexical units in the students' environment are given. The article points out that the uncodified lexical units under study are based on the codified standard lexical units. The author makes an attempt to define the functions of uncodified words in the communication of modern students. It is emphasized that the 125 meaning of most uncodified units functioning in the students' environment becomes evident only in the particular context of their creation and understood only by the members of this lifestage. Having analyzed and classified the received material the author makes certain conclusions about the peculiarities of data collection in the process of studying the uncodified lexical units which can be used in further research.