<p style=”text-align: right;”><strong>Y. Kurko</strong></p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”><strong>MARKERS OF CONFLICT COMMUNICATION IN ADOLESCENCE</strong></p>
The article highlights and describes the characteristic markers of conflict communication in the age crisis periods of a person, defines and describes the general characteristics of the concept of “marker of conflict”, considers the functions of use. A wide range of markers of conflict is described, including negative evaluative and stylistically reduced vocabulary (for example, when assessing appearance, personal qualities, mental abilities), zooactivities and animal comparisons, interjections, relatives with negative connotations. For a more detailed consideration, adolescence was chosen as one of the most striking crisis age periods. The article presents a brief description of the psychological characteristics of adolescence, examines the boundaries of this period and presents the characteristics of various authors, including D.B. Elkonin, E. Erikson. The causes of increased conflict among adolescents are considered. For the most part, such markers are jargonisms referring to different parts of speech. In addition, swearing is used, reduced profanity, negatively colored evaluative vocabulary.
<strong><em>Keywords</em>:</strong> markers of conflict, crisis age periods, adolescence, adolescent speech, speech conflict.
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