А.Е. Borodina
TATTOOING AS A YOUTH COMMUNICATION SIGN SYSTEM
The article is focused on the study of tattoo a part of communication among young people and its psycholinguistic aspects. The work analyses the functioning theory of A.A. Leontiev, the social psychology of B.N. Parygin and theory of young people’s criminal community laws of V.F. Pirozhkov. The article reflects the features of tattoo’s historical development. It also describes out psycholinguistic experiment to displaying the main functions of tattoo in the modern society.
Keywords: tattoo, psycholinguistics, communication sign, non-verbal communication, culture.