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Abstract

The article proposes the contrastive study of the new forms of youth’s slang induced by the development of interpersonal and corporative communication. Our study also considers the examining of scientific literature on language markers of French and Ukrainian youth striving for sociolinguistic cooperation under the analyzed sociolect circumstances and seeking to give sociolinguistic coherence of these sociolects universals. The multidisciplinary approach makes it possible to construct the typology of the youth’s language forms. Anchored in the context of sociolinguistics, this research aim is to understand how to translate the lexicon of young French people by the elements of the Ukrainian youth’s slang. The author supposes the youth’s slang to reflect the specificity of national and cultural identity of the language. The typological studies of these French and Ukrainian substandards are per-specutive at each of the specified levels, especially in the aspect of developing optimal approaches to the translation of the words of the French youth’s slang into Ukrainian. It remains important to study the slang of young Ukrainians as a corpus of possible equivalents of the words of the French youth’s slang. Perhaps the current state of the slang of young Ukrainians, its similarities with the slang of young French (functions, domains) allow it to be used as an equivalent in the translation process.