Word formation processes in Russian slang (based on personal nouns) Cover Image

Словообразовательные процессы в русском сленге (на примере наименований лиц)
Word formation processes in Russian slang (based on personal nouns)

Author(s): Gabriela Wilk
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza

Summary/Abstract: This paper is devoted to studying productive word formation processes in Russian slang (creating new words morphologically and semantic derivation). The paper focuses on terms which are used to name people and which were taken from S.I. Levikova's The Great Dictionary of Youth Slang. The lexical units that are analyzed are not stylistically neutral, and their expressiveness can be achieved through suffixation, compounding, contamination, clipping or via metaphors and metonymies.

  • Issue Year: 40/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 179-186
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Russian