СЕМАНТИЧНА ДЕРИВАЦІЯ ЖАРГОНІЗМІВ У СУЧАСНІЙ УКРАЇНСЬКІЙ МОВІ

The research is relevant due to the intensification of dynamics of the formation, functioning and penetration of social and professional jargon into conversational, journalistic and fiction styles in the Ukrainian language in the late XX - early XXI century. The aim of the research is to provide linguistic analysis of predominantly new (less frequently - known earlier) jargons of modern Ukrainian language formed by semantic way. The article has the following objectives: to clarify the concept of “jargon”, to enter new lexical items from different jargons formed by lexical and semantic way and mostly unrecorded in Ukrainian dictionaries into scientific usage; to conduct proper linguistic analysis of some features of semantic derivation, emerging and active in modern Ukrainian language. Substandard formations, recorded in the online discourse in the language of journalism, fiction, and in the colloquial speech of certain social and professional groups served as the material for the study. This article provides a detailed analysis of some features of semantic derivation of different jargons. The author made the following conclusions: semantic derivation processes in discourse of Ukrainian jargons, especially among youth, sports, computer, automotive, military and police are very active; especially productive are processes of semantic expansion of sub-units mainly based on different kinds of metaphors somewhat less - metonymy; Ukrainian modern jargon has predominantly anthropocentric nature because the main object of interest is concentrated on the person, including their appearance, psychological and intellectual features, demeanor, communication and so on.