Мультипликационные фильмы как источник прозвищ в молодежном жаргоне (на материале польского языка)

Abstract

The paper describes lexical units which are adopted by the Polish youth slang as nicknames, which present an actual tendency in linguistic investigations. The vocabulary of Russian nicknames, edited by H. Valter and V. Mokienko is an evidence of this fact. Our research is based on the heritage of famous linguists. We use their outstanding achievements and linguistic material presented by the „rich sponsor” of philologist as Internet for presenting the most threatened species in present moment which are nicknames. We note several units being derivatives of the names of cartoon’s hero which have been or are popular in Poland. They describe people’s appearance, style of behavior. The using of them characterize the speaker as well. The nicknames can be transformed. The purpose of this process is creating a new as for the expression and the form unit, which would be answer the purpose of using slang.