MIEJSCE TERMINOLOGII BARTNICZEJ WŚRÓD ODMIAN JĘZYKA POLSKIEGO
The place of beekeeping terminology in variants of the Polish language

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to define the notion of <beekeeping terminology> and its location in the lexical system of both historical and contemporary Polish. By the adoption of the sociolinguistic description methodology, this paper is also an attempt to engage in polemic against propositions to describe beekeeping terminology as a functionally specialised portion of dialect lexis (a type of folk terminology). The description of beekeeping terminology in sociolect categories permits its characterisation as a supraregional social and professional variant of the language, which – upon the disappearance of this form of forestry beekeeping – has been preserved in the archaic layer of the contemporary beekeeping and forestry terminology.

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