Functional aspects of intercultural communication. Translation and interpreting issues. Proceedings. 2019. Volume 6  295 DOI: 10.22363/2712-7974-2019-6-295-305 SPEECH BEHAVIOR OF RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN YOUNG PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT SUBCULTURES: PRAGMALINGUISTIC ASPECT Irina A. Zyubina 1 , Anna I. Dzyubenko 2 1, 2 Southern Federal University Rostov-on-Don, Russia 1 e-mail: irinazyubina@gmail.com ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1265-8366 2 e-mail: dzyubenkoanna@gmail.com ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3228-4277 Abstract. Stereotyped and individual speech behaviour of Russian and American young people was examined with the help of Pragmalinguistic comparative analysis, taking into account national-cultural specificity of the addressers (Russian-speaking and English-speaking young people of different subcultures). The purpose of the article is to identify the national specifics of the speech behavior of Russian and American youth according to the speech strategy “Participation / non-participation of communicants in a speech event”. The tasks: - to identify some individual and personal qualities of the youth; - to diagnose stereotyped speech behavior of youth groups of different subcultures; - to analyze speech specifics of the authors by their nationality. The texts of the representatives of the now-known subcultures were studied. Interviews were selected, because in this case each representative speech had not been prepared, which ensured the purity of the experiment. Then, each interview was divided into small syntactic groups, after which the texts were analyzed and the