Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of the role of the discursive markers in pragmatics of speech behaviour of the Russian student's youth on the basis of data of oral and written corporas of the Russian slang lexicon. The research objective is to reveal functional specifics of data of metalinguistic units in the student's discourse. In the article are analyzed functions carried out by them, their meaning in interactions and influence on the illocutionary force of statements.