Specjalizacje złodziejskie w świetle quasi-semantyzmów (na materiale polskiego i rosyjskiego żargonu przestępczego)

Gustaw Michał Akartel

Katowice

Abstrakt

Both in Russian and Polish language substandard at the level of criminal jargon we can
observe a lot of information which indicates the thieves specialization (night thief, burglar, thief
which steals from drunk people, thief which robs apartments etc.). Designations of a thief in
considered aspect are reflected as quasi-semantics words which were borrowed from normative
language and then semantically modified. Such words, on a considered level, have no longer its
primal meaning (budzik, sowa, żyletka etc.) because of their semantic
modification, they reflect the reality through different associations that arise for native speakers.
Ipso facto, the subjects of this analysis are quasi-semantics which are calling the thief according to
his specialization.