Glamor standard of life: socialites of the end of the XX - beginning of the XXI century in rhyming slang

Doklady Bashkirskogo Universiteta. 2022. Volume 7. No. 6. pp. 435-440.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33184/dokbsu-2022.6.11

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At the turn of the century, it became obvious that the defining trend in the development of rhyming slang is the tendency to preferential use of the model for the formation of new rhymes based on the exploitation of the names of well-known, fashionable or popular personalities. The article aims to identify onomastic rhymes as part of rhyming slang, built on the names of pop culture idols representing the fashion world and glamour standard of life, relevant for the late 20th - early 21st centuries, in order to give them a proper sociocultural description as fixers of cultural and historical realities that have linguocultural and country-specific value. The commented rhymes appeared in rhyming slang relatively recently and date back to the 80-90s of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century. Some rhymes have not yet received lexicographic fixation.