Criteria for Annotating Slang in English and Uzbek Youth Digital Discourse

Tokhtasinova, Shokhsanam, Тохтасинова, Шохсанам, Toxtasinova, Shohsanam

Хорижий лингвистика ва лингводидактика · 2026-yil

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Slang annotation requires evidence about a lexical expression, its contextual meaning and the circumstances of its use. A young speaker, an unfamiliar spelling or an online setting cannot independently justify a slang label. The article specifies criteria for selecting English and Uzbek youth-language material for digital discourse annotation. A qualitative contrastive analysis covers nine deliberately selected cases: four English and five Uzbek examples drawn from publisher-authorised fiction, a distributor-verified film quotation, a lexicographic account and a cited dissertation. Each case receives a source description, a target expression, a contextual paraphrase and an assessment of the evidence supporting its proposed register. The analysis separates lexical status from borrowing, contraction, figurative interpretation, metalinguistic mention and speaker-age information. In the English material, the footwear sense of kicks has independent lexicographic support, whereas C’mon records conversational reduction. The disputed fetch proposal in Mean Girls concerns acceptance of a word, and Oxford’s account of rizz supplies evidence of circulation beyond an individual utterance. The Uzbek cases expose different evidential problems. Beton permits a contextually supported interpretation of personal influence; ketvorgan conveys favourable evaluation in represented dialogue; tavsuyu exhibits lexical recombination whose wider adoption remains unverified. Post qildim and layk bosvoringlar identify platform activity and informal grammatical expression without independently establishing a slang register. The resulting annotation procedure records the source, contextual meaning, register evidence, usage mode and age provenance in separate fields. It retains a candidate label when conventionality lacks confirmation and distinguishes missing evidence from an established negative decision. The comparison yields an auditable procedure for preparing English and Uzbek data before automatic classification. The selected cases support analytical distinctions, without estimating current usage rates or model performance. Literary dialogue and reported internet examples remain distinct from messages whose authors and age groups have been documented. Slang status and eligibility for a youth corpus therefore require separate decisions.

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MualliflarTokhtasinova, Shokhsanam, Тохтасинова, Шохсанам, Toxtasinova, Shohsanam
JurnalХорижий лингвистика ва лингводидактика
NashriyotСамарқанд давлат чет тиллар институти
ISSN0000-0003, 4295-8199
Nashr sanasi2026-08-25
Jild4
Son7/S
Betlar247-260
TilIngliz
Ilmiy sohaFilologiya
DOI10.47689/2181-3701-vol4-iss7/s-pp247-260
Indeksga qo‘shilgan2026-10-18

DOI: 10.47689/2181-3701-vol4-iss7/s-pp247-260 · Maqolaning asl sahifasi

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лексическая конвенциональность, регистровая вариативность, семантическое расширение, переключение кодов, происхождение данных, метаязыковое упоминание, lexical conventionality, register variation, semantic extension, code-switching, data provenance, metalinguistic mention, leksik konvensionallik, uslubiy registr variativligi, semantik kengayish, kodlarni almashtirish, ma’lumotlarning kelib chiqishi, metalingvistik tilga olish

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APATokhtasinova, Shokhsanam, Тохтасинова, Шохсанам, & Toxtasinova, Shohsanam (2026). Criteria for Annotating Slang in English and Uzbek Youth Digital Discourse. Хорижий лингвистика ва лингводидактика, 4(7/S), 247-260. https://doi.org/10.47689/2181-3701-vol4-iss7/s-pp247-260
GOST (OAK)Tokhtasinova, Shokhsanam, Тохтасинова, Шохсанам, Toxtasinova, Shohsanam Criteria for Annotating Slang in English and Uzbek Youth Digital Discourse // Хорижий лингвистика ва лингводидактика. – 2026. – T. 4, № 7/S. – P. 247-260. – DOI: 10.47689/2181-3701-vol4-iss7/s-pp247-260.
MLATokhtasinova, Shokhsanam, Тохтасинова, Шохсанам, and Toxtasinova, Shohsanam. “Criteria for Annotating Slang in English and Uzbek Youth Digital Discourse.” Хорижий лингвистика ва лингводидактика, 4(7/S), 247-260, 2026. https://doi.org/10.47689/2181-3701-vol4-iss7/s-pp247-260
ChicagoTokhtasinova, Shokhsanam, Тохтасинова, Шохсанам, and Toxtasinova, Shohsanam. “Criteria for Annotating Slang in English and Uzbek Youth Digital Discourse.” Хорижий лингвистика ва лингводидактика, 4(7/S), 247-260 (2026). https://doi.org/10.47689/2181-3701-vol4-iss7/s-pp247-260
HarvardTokhtasinova, Shokhsanam, Тохтасинова, Шохсанам, and Toxtasinova, Shohsanam (2026) ‘Criteria for Annotating Slang in English and Uzbek Youth Digital Discourse’, Хорижий лингвистика ва лингводидактика, 4(7/S), 247-260. https://doi.org/10.47689/2181-3701-vol4-iss7/s-pp247-260
BibTeX
@article{tokhtasinovashokhsanam2026,
  title = {Criteria for Annotating Slang in English and Uzbek Youth Digital Discourse},
  author = {Tokhtasinova, Shokhsanam and Тохтасинова, Шохсанам and Toxtasinova, Shohsanam},
  journal = {Хорижий лингвистика ва лингводидактика},
  year = {2026},
  volume = {4},
  number = {7/S},
  pages = {247-260},
  doi = {10.47689/2181-3701-vol4-iss7/s-pp247-260},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.47689/2181-3701-vol4-iss7/s-pp247-260}
}

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