The vocabulary of Slavonic urban dialects: Exoethnonyms in Warsaw, Brno and Moscow dialects Cover Image

Leksyka słowiańskich dialektów miejskich: egzoetnonimy w gwarze Warszawy, Brna i Moskwy
The vocabulary of Slavonic urban dialects: Exoethnonyms in Warsaw, Brno and Moscow dialects

Author(s): Bartosz Juszczak
Subject(s): Language studies, Philology
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: ethnonyms; abusive exoethnonym; Warsaw urban dialect; Hantec slang of Brno; Moscow urban dialect

Summary/Abstract: The present study concentrates on the issue of exoethnonyms and, in particular, exoethnonyms replacing orthonyms in the vocabulary of Slavonic urban dialects – namely, the urban dialect of Warsaw, the Hantec slang of Brno and the urban dialect of Moscow. Based on the data extracted from dictionaries, it was possible to select such designations. From the linguistic point of view, these nominations are either occasionalisms or names more deeply rooted in the lexical system of the urban dialects in question. The article includes the analysis and classification of the research data in terms of the linguistic and extralinguistic motivation and axiological evaluation of particular items.

  • Issue Year: 45/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 195-204
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish