Funkcja ekspresywna języka rosyjskiego w wielojęzycznym środowisku młodzieży szkół polskich na Litwie i Ukrainie

This paper attempts to present the sociolinguistic situation of the multilingual youth from Lithuania and Ukraine, with a particular focus on the function of the Russian language examined from the angle of emotional language behaviours and the Russian-Polish confrontation related to translation of a cultural text. The material basis is the results of a questionnaire survey carried out by the authors among students of schools with Polish as the language of instruction in Vilnius, Lviv, and Horodok in 2018. The comparative analysis covered the linguistic self-assessment of the representatives of two student environments and models of verbal expression of positive and negative emotional states. The analysis of the cultural and linguistic competence was performed on the example of a translation of Russian marked reduplicative expressions. As a result of the analysis, it can be stated that Russian is perceived and used by the surveyed multilingual youth as the most expressive language code.