Abstract
Challenges in understanding media discourse on drugs: use of slang
Highlights
Life is a gift that every human being receives only once
The analysis of the corpus revealed extensive presence of slang terms and phrases used by journalists in order to enrich the language of their articles and to make them more intriguing, understandable and appealing to younger audiences
Among the most commonly mentioned slang terms in these articles were the various nouns used in reference to the different types of drugs
Summary
Life is a gift that every human being receives only once. It becomes everyone’s personal duty to preserve it and to create it. On being asked what the most important thing in life is, almost every person would probably answer that for him/her and their close ones it is to be alive and well. Everyday media present news of innocent human lives lost in various unfortunate circumstances: road accidents, floods or other natural disasters, cases of murder, terrorist attacks or dreadful diseases. Some of these examples show that there are cases when people are exposed to dangers over which they have no control. A more frightful fact is the existence of another group of people who tend to put at risk their own lives through becoming involved in the vicious practice of drug abuse
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