Intra-variety neosemanticism in the urban dialect (on the example of the Poznań lexis)

Authors:

• Anna Piotrowicz,
• Małgorzata Witaszek-Samborska

Abstract

This paper applies to the results of the process of intra-variety neosemanticism, that is regional meanings derived from other regional meanings (for example, dołyszek in the meaning 'żoła̧dek' ['stomach"] from the meaning 'dołek' ['hole']). It is a supplementation of the other work by the authors regarding extra-variety semantic neologisms, that is ones coined as a result creating regional meanings from Polish nationwide meanings (e.g. onion in the Poznań dialect is 'a hole in a sock, a stocking, a sleeve"). The authors present the results of different neosemanticism mechanisms: metaphorisation, metonymisation, changes in the semantic dominant, generalisation and specialisation. They demonstrate complex chain, radial and mixed structures from among polysemantic regionalisms. The authors highlight also the anthropomorphism observable in the semantic fields represented by semantic neologisms as well as formal & genetic and chronological diversity of the analysed vocabulary.