O augmentatywach w języku łowieckim

Abstract

The attempt is made towards compiling and classifying derivatives formed on the basis of nouns, adjectives and verbs according to morphological criteria. Additionally, the derived units subject to analysis are required to contain augmentative, both augmentative and pejorative, as well as ironical and downgrading formatives. The analysis is conducted with the aid of data drawn from interviews and short narratives delivered by hunters (both web-based and available in paper form). Handbooks and dictionaries of hunting lexis and practice were precious tools accordingly. Polish language is demonstrated to boast a large number of modifying derivatives that have an expressive value. Not only is this specialized technical lexis used to convey information in straightforward communicative circumstances. Above all, its significance lies in enabling users to share experience, exchange opinions and get rid of emotions. In point of fact, both individual and collectively performed acts of hunting are emotion-laden. That is why, aside from features inherent in every kind of specialized code (economy, precision and highly routinized manners of encoding), a bundle of peculiar features are found in hunting lexis: a significant degree of subjectivity that becomes most obvious in an extensive use made of affectively marked derivation.