Przejawy tendencji do skrótowości w socjolekcie biegaczy amatorów
Manifestations of the trend for brevity in the sociolect of amateur runners

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents one of the aspects of research on the environmental and professional language of amateur runners. The manifestations of the trend for brevity in the group’s sociolect presented in the text are related not only with lexis but also with non-dictionary phenomena. What is noticeable in the language of runners is of eponym appellativisation, application of a specific syntactic model, and – as regards word formation – frequent univerbation and negative derivation as well as formation of acronyms (instead of their two-or three-word bases). This paper contains numerous examples derived from a dictionary created in the course of the, which gathers units excerpted from the heard utterances of runners and their posts on blogs. Brevity in the sociolect of amateur runners is aimed at simplifying and accelerating the communication process although this is the case mainly with those who are well-established in this social group.

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