Publication details
La composition en argot : une vulgarité composée?
| Title in English | Composition in slang : a composite vulgarity? |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Études romanes de Brno |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Web | http://is.muni.cz/www/12093/articles/2006/erb/ |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | composition;vulgarity;slang;expressivity; Czech;French |
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| Description | The analysis of slang composits in Czech and French shows that the composition is a way how to hide the direct vulgarity. There is two possibilities to crypt the vulgarity: formally (the second basis of the composit is hidden behind the first, neutral basis) or semanticaly (metaphoric periphrases of obscene topics). Amusing invention and inattended concatenation of inherent elements amplify the expressivity as well as the impressive force of this kind of neologisms. |