PROCES NEUTRALIZACJI NACECHOWANEJ LEKSYKI POTOCZNEJ NA PRZYKŁADZIE WYRAZÓW FACET I KASA
Process of Neutralization of Qualitative Colloquial Lexis Based on the Words facet (guy) and kasa (cash)

Summary/Abstract: The paper describes the phenomenon of lexical wandering inside the language system: from colloquial speech towards official language use. This is demonstrated by help of many citations on the example of two lexemes: facet (guy) and kasa (cash). The transfer of words, which genetically belong to the different stylistic levels, proceeds today very quickly and on a massive scale, enormously accelerated via mass media communication, and it involves at the same time the process of vulgarization and primitivisation of colloquial speech itself. The absorption of the colloquial units by the official use causes the vacant lexical spaces in the colloquial variance. In order to fill them, the colloquial language searches for new and more expressive items in the lowest linguistic registers: slang, sociolects and vulgar expressions.

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