Hejt: Wszystko zaczyna się od języka – zarys portretu leksykalnego wyrazu hejt
„Hate speech”: Everything starts with the language – an outline of the lexical portrait of the word hejt

Author(s): Lucyna Warda-Radys
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Semantics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: hate; semantics; lexical portrait; borrowing
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the meaning and functioning of the English loan word hate/hejt in the Polish language. Using the data contained in online dictionaries (professional and amateur – created by Internet users), information from various websites and web portals, as well as the results of the survey, the etymology of the word, its history, semantic changes and axiology as well as the gradual permeation from colloquial Polish into the general language are presented. Attention is also paid to the dangerous blurring of the concept of hate.

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