Googlować, trollować, tweetować…, in other words, the new verb borrowings in the language of internet users Cover Image

Googlować, trollować, tweetować…, czyli nowe zapożyczenia czasownikowe w języku użytkowników internetu
Googlować, trollować, tweetować…, in other words, the new verb borrowings in the language of internet users

Author(s): Beata Kacperska
Subject(s): Language studies, Theoretical Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: verb borrowings;internet;mass media;word formation basis;control;verb;borrowing;new media

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to systematize information about the new verbs which are concerning activity in the Internet space and using social media. The research material consists of 48 verb borrowings. It have been classified in terms of word formation (taking into account their foundations and formants). In this way, were distinguished three types of the new verbs, in which the basis are proper names, common names functioning as borrowings and native equivalents of anglicisms. Then on the similarity of dictionary entries describes three verbs borrowings: googlować, trollować and tweetować.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 53
  • Page Range: 123-136
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish