CZUŁOŚĆ MIĘDZYGATUNKOWA W OBLICZU ŚMIERCI, CZYLI JAK O ZMARŁYCH ZWIERZĘTACH TOWARZYSZĄCYCH MÓWIĄ ICH OPIEKUNOWIE
INTERSPECIES TENDERNESS IN THE FACE OF DEATH, OR HOW DECEASED COMPANION ANIMALS ARE CALLED BY THEIR OWNERS

Summary/Abstract: The increasing role of the relationship between humans and companion animals and thegeneral mediatisation and democratisation trends in public discourse have led to the emergence ofnew digital forms of expression of mourning after the death of an animal companion, includingcommemorative portals providing the opportunity to publish tributes (French: hommage) to thedeceased animal. The aim of this article is to characterise the linguistic means used to expresstenderness towards pets in French online commemorative discourse. The study is qualitative-quan-titative in nature and involves the analysis of morphological and semantic features of 1,714 affec-tonymes excerpted from 1,468 texts commemorating deceased animals, published in the section“Amonami” of the portal 30millionsdamis.fr The results of the study indicate the use of a variety of formal means to increase the expressive character of the analysed forms, such as affixation,apocope and apheresis. The analysis also distinguished 17 semantic fields to which the collectedaffectonymes belong.

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