Wybrane typy gier słowotwórczych w tekstach Kabaretu Moralnego Niepokoju
Selected Types of Word Formation Games in the Texts of Kabaret Moralnego Niepokoju [A Moral Anxiety Cabaret]

Summary/Abstract: This paper attempts to explore word formation games in a cabaret text. The material under analysis was extracted from the sketches developed by Kabaret Moralnego Niepokoju [A Moral Anxiety Cabaret]. The article presents a classification of these word formation mechanisms that can be used to produce a comic effect. The main emphasis is put on these mechanisms that are relatively rare in other analyses in the literature of the subject. These mechanisms include the following: grouping and accumulating of structures representing the same word formation pattern or lexemes belonging to one word formation family, emphatic use of a word formation structure, etymological reinterpretation, word play with the use of abbreviations and meta-word formation techniques. Neologisms and contaminations were excluded from the scope of the analysis. The analysis of the data at hand revealed the richness of word formation strategies that the cabaret group members employ in their texts and the diversity of functions these strategies can realize. The major function used by the cabaret members is comical, yet they also reach for stylization and enhanced expressiveness of their texts.

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