Socjolekty wczoraj i dziś. Wpływ przemian społeczno-kulturowych przełomu XX i XXI wieku na rozwój środowiskowych odmian języka
Sociolects yesterday and tomorrow. The impact of social and cultural change at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries on sociolect development

Author(s): Barbara Pędzich
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: sociolect; professional lingo; jargon; slang
Summary/Abstract: The paper sets out to investigate Polish sociolects and their developmental trends after 1989. It provides a description of the extralinguistic aspects of a sociolect’s development and the causes behind the vanishing of certain societal language variations and the emergence of others. The evolution of sociolects is determined by a number of factors: the development of a number of social life areas, the arrival of Western cultural models, the free exchange of information and the resulting change of the existing linguistic communication model. Particularly prolific are those language variations that are developed by newly emergent professions as well as sociolects characterized by high expressivity, e.g. slang used by youth subcultures. The paper also touches upon the expansive potential of many sociolects, with particular emphasis on the process whereby slang vocabulary becomes widespread in general language.

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