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Abstract
This research explores the role of slang in human behavior and communications, including its influence on communication dynamics, social settings, and identity formation. Combining survey, interview, and observation methods, we assess how patterns of slang talk build attitudes, emotions, and relationships across a multitude of demographic populations. Our findings suggest that slang serves as an effective means of in-group identification and group solidarity, enhancing group cohesion but potentially excluding outsiders. Mastery over appropriate slang can significantly affect a person's perceived social status and opens up specific kinds of access to cultural situations. Informal and creative, slang use makes individual expression creative while inventing and reproducing social norms. We also examine how digital communication media fuel the growth and spread of slang, helping foster general language trends. The research will study the contradictory character of slang: it invests language with novel meanings as well as intense culture, but it can also help perpetuate social cleavages and misunderstandings. These findings seem to give ways of thinking regarding the complicated relationship between language and behavior; findings have proved to provide implications to sociolinguistics and cultural studies, along with social psychology. Research is suggested to be done in order to find out what longer-term consequences slang might have on cross-cultural communication and cognitive processes. Keywords: slang, human behavior, communication, social identity, group dynamics, language evolution, sociolinguistics, cultural context
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Copyright © 2024 Grishm Ghosh. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
