"Masakra" — wyraz modny współczesnej polszczyzny
"Masakra" (‘massacre’) — a fashionable word of contemporary Polish

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the meaning and pragmatic functions of the word "masakra" (‘massacre’). In contemporary Polish the word is gradually losing negative semantic connotations related to savage killing, slaughter and is becoming a universal form serving to express emotions, opinions (both negative and positive), high intensity of a feature or a phenomenon. In the paper, the author shows functioning of the fashionable word in spoken and written texts, inter alia, in statements typical of everyday informal communication, in articles, comments and advertising placed on different websites.

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