Kwestie nacechowania w języku sportu

Abstrakt

Following the definitions offered by Birk & Birk (1990), the paper discusses the issues of slanting and charged language to be found in the sub-dialect form of sport-connected language. ‘While basing on the cognitive theory of language offered by R. Langacker, the paper presents the forms of charging found in various elements of sport-connected language. The forms of the charging elements, which are always dependent on the message author, are selected from the lexicon of some cognitively existing in-language personal semantic schema, which defines the semantic areas of each of the words and are subsequently applied by the message author, so as to illustrate his/her feelings in respect to a given sport-involving activity in the closest possible way. Additionally, the paper hints at the existence of possible connections between sport language and numerous forms of everyday speech claiming that one of the ways of ‘resurrection’ of everyday speech is its relative proximity to sport language.