WZBOGACANIE LEKSYKI ŚRODOWISKOWEJ NA PRZYKŁADZIE WYBRANYCH ODMIAN SOCJOLEKTALNYCH POLSZCZYZNY
THE SOCIAL VOCABULARY ENRICHMENT BASED ON SELECTED CASES OF POLISH SOCIOLECTS

Summary/Abstract: The paper addresses specific vocabulary of selected social varieties of Polish created by members of a particular group participating in a discussion and contacting each other via the Internet (forums, blogs etc.). There are a lot of groups emerging on the Internet whose members create their own language variety, enriched by the language resources established on the Net already. People who use the social variety of the language created during direct contacts also communicate through the Internet developing this variety even further in virtual communities. The language used by bra fitting forum users (including Lobby Biuściastych, Lobby Małobiuściastych) and by authors of blogs devoted to this theme and their commentators (including Stanikomania, Balkonetka) can be an example of language variety created through the Internet. The examples of language varieties created during direct contacts and further developed through the Internet represent the language of animal lovers and the amateurs of cycling communicating with which each other via numerous forums and discussion groups such as: Forum Miau.pl, Dogomania.pl, Forum Stowarzyszenia Pomocy Królikom, CatBase.pl, Forum Fundacji „Koci Pazur”, Nasze Jamniki Forum Miłośników, pl.rec.zwierzaki (animal lovers), BikeForum.pl, Forum Rowerowe, Forum – Gazeta.pl, forum.mtbikes.pl, and rower.com (cyclists). The examples of social vocabulary cited in the paper show that the ways of vocabulary enrichment in discussed social varieties are the same as in colloquial Polish. Numerous neosemantisms, borrowings and word-formative neologisms constitute the specific layer of social vocabulary. More numerous are those neosemantisms, which are motivated by similarity of psychical features to designatums having already established names in Polish language. Word-formative neologisms can be derived from native bases, which are often social neosemantisms or from loanwords which are very quickly adapted to comply with Polish grammar system and Polish spelling. A huge linguistic creativity of members of social groups – the carriers of sociolect – deserves a particular attention. This creativity is manifested most of all by naming these elements of extra-linguistic reality that do not have their designations in general language because they have just appeared in this reality or there was no previous need to denominate them. KEY WORDS: sociolects, virtual communities, Internet, neologisms, neosemantisms, borrowings, bicycles/bikes, cyclists/ bikers, animals, animal lovers, bras.

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