Яшил иқтисодиёт ва тараққиёт Volume 4 Issue 6 (2026)
PRAGMATIC AND DERIVATIONAL CHANGES OF THE UZBEK LANGUAGE IN YOUTH SPEECH (BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND MEDIA TEXTS)
Yuldasheva, Dilnoza
Abstract
This article analyzes pragmatic and derivational changes occurring in the speech of Uzbekspeakingyouth, using a corpus of social media and media texts from 2022–2026. The study draws on a300,000-word corpus of comments on Telegram, Instagram, and YouTube, as well as 500 media texts fromonline publications targeting youth. The results demonstrate that youth speech is not a simplified or corruptedversion of standard Uzbek, but a creative laboratory where new linguistic forms emerge and spread
youth speech, pragmatic changes, derivational changes, social media, Uzbek language, wordformation, language innovation, digital communication
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