The study attempts to identify the characteristics of youth communication in the context of various subcultures, taking into account national, social and gender aspects. The goal is to determine the role of youth jargon in the process of socialization of the younger generation, as well as the place that anglicisms take in it. The study allowed us to go beyond traditional lexicography in the direction of cultural linguistics, environmental and axiological linguistics, into the sphere of metasubject correlations, educational and educational mission. The analysis of the factual material is carried out on the basis of traditional and newest methods of linguistic research: observation, description, content analysis, synthesis, systematization, as well as elements of statistical, structural-functional, cultural and distributive methods of analysis. The article examines anglicisms in the system of modern youth slang, their genesis, word formation methods, lexical and semantic models and functional significance. The research object plays a unique role in this process. Scientists dealing with the speech of modern youth note a high degree of its jargonization. Among the reasons for this phenomenon there is the need for “one's own”, specific language for communicating with peers, the influence of globalization, the expansion of pop culture, the development of Internet communication and mass media. The authors come to the conclusion that modern Russian communicative behavior, even in public space, is characterized with a colloquial-slang constructive-style vector, which entails the need to revise not only the criteria of the literary norm, but also the orthological paradigm as a whole.