Dominant Word Formation Processes in Argot among Tehran's High School Students

This paper tries to find the dominant word formation processes with the highest frequency in the current argot among Tehran's high school students. We presented Richards’ and Schmidt’s (2002) and Hudson’s (2000) viewpoints about word formation in the standard language; afterwards, we examined the content of "a Persian dictionary of argot" containing approximately 510 words and expressions. Our findings are as follows:• First, Compounding is placed at the top of the other processes.• Second, there is usage of some suffixes in the Argot which are known as frozen suffixes in the standard Persian language.• Last, "Argot is a part of standard language" said Samai; nevertheless, there are two kinds of suffixes in derivation which are not in agreement with the main word formation processes in the standard Persian language:1- Usage of borrowed suffixes from Arabic language to determine different sexes.2-Usage of suffixes with no history in Persian language, which may be derived in the surveyed Argot by wrong cutting.