Specjalizacje złodziejskie w świetle quasi-semantyzmów (na materiale polskiego i rosyjskiego żargonu przestępczego)
Thieves specializations in the world o f quasi-semantics (based on the material o f Polish and Russian criminal jargon)

Summary/Abstract: Both in Russian and Polish language substandard at the level of criminal jargon we canobserve a lot of information which indicates the thieves’ “specialization” (night thief, burglar, thiefwhich steals from drunk people, thief which robs apartments etc.). Designations of a thief inconsidered aspect are reflected as quasi-semantics - words which were borrowed from normativelanguage and then semantically modified. Such words, on a considered level, have no longer itsprimal meaning (budzik, sowa, żyletka; конь, собака, пасечник etc.) because of their semanticmodification, they reflect the reality through different associations that arise for native speakers.Ipso facto, the subjects of this analysis are quasi-semantics which are calling the thief according tohis specialization.

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