O języku użytkowników forum Miau.pl (wprowadzenie w problematykę)
Language of Miau.pl forum users (introduction to the problem)

Summary/Abstract: Miau.pl forum users form a community strongly bonded by love to cats and express it, mainly, by helping them in various ways and taking care of them. In their statements, both we find vocabulary specific to this community, and common to all animal lovers. I consider the cat lovers (ailurophiles) language as microsociolect which is part of animal lovers sociolect. Because it is difficult to identify the source of a common vocabulary for animal lovers the article discusses the vocabulary used on the forum Miau.pl but not occurring in standard Polish or occurring there in a different sense. Microsociolect of Miau.pl forum users is intentionally transparent, moderately communicative, with dominance of expressive function, embracing reality in abbreviated rather than periphrastic manner.

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