A mentee or on the reception of a borrowing in Polish Cover Image

Mentee, czyli mentorowany - o recepcji zapożyczenia w języku polskim
A mentee or on the reception of a borrowing in Polish

Author(s): Agnieszka Grażul-Luft
Subject(s): Lexis, Semantics, Sociolinguistics
Published by: Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA
Keywords: borrowings; meaning; trendy words; professionalisms;

Summary/Abstract: The borrowing mentee occurs in the Polish language mainly in the area concerned with professional development. The noun is semantically close e.g. to the word podopieczny, yet its emotional load seems to be more positive than that of other semantically similar lexemes. The borrowing mentee has not be recorded in dictionaries of Polish yet; its meaning has been discussed based on contextual usages.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 84-95
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish