The purpose of this article is to show what speech strategies and tactics are used by students with deviant behavior; what stylistic and compositional features of speech are typical for them; how they model meanings via words and what lexical and grammatical deviations are inherent in their speech.It is obvious that the phenomenon of deviant behavior in modern society conditions is getting a new sound. What was once considered as a non-norm now is increasingly seen as one of its variants, and therefore new approaches are required to assess both the very phenomenon of deviance in the educational socioenvironment and the markers that characterize its manifestation in speech and texts.We managed to combine psychological, pedagogical and linguistic methods of working with a person through his or her text. The materials for the research were transcribed notes of lectures, seminars, conferences. The available volume of texts and methods that we used allowed us to come to valid conclusions: texts with the marker "deviance" had a specific set of features, and therefore they could be described, qualified and summed up under a specific theory.