Word Creation Processes in French and Polish Fishing Jargon Cover Image

Procédés nominatifs dans le jargon de la pêche français et polonaise
Word Creation Processes in French and Polish Fishing Jargon

Author(s): Agnieszka K. Kaliska
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Morphology, Lexis, Comparative Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Komisja Nauk Filologicznych Oddziału Polskiej Akademii Nauk we Wrocławiu
Keywords: fishing jargon; word creation process; specialized language; French; Polish

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to describe the word creation processes used in fishing jargon, French and Polish, studied from texts available online. Our research will focus on the analysis of the name formation processes of fishing techniques and tools. We adopt the typology of lexicogenic matrices which was proposed by J-F. Sablayrolles (2020). The great advantage of the Sablayrolles typology is that it makes it possible to organize various lexical creation processes while emphasizing that these have mixed characteristics (i.e. morpho-semantic, syntaxico-semantic, morphological, pragmatic-semantic, including borrowed words). Our perspective is general in the sense that we will find in our corpus all kinds of units: single and compound words, truncated words and acronyms, with different expressiveness and intensity of use. This study shows that the fishing jargon is not just a technolecte; its terminology plays an important role in the understanding of contexts and specialized texts, of course, but it allows people who use it to keep interpersonal relationships within the community

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 171-180
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: French