There are few linguistic studies about the register of the French language spoken during the First World War, on the front and behind it. There are many written testimonies, but not all have been analysed and therefore ...

The difference between jargon, slang and specialized language often becomes blurred in the case of professional discourse. The reason is to be found in the very nature of this type of discourse, as well as in the ...

Young people use a variety of lexicon in their atypical written French language, which we can observe in the weblogs from skyrock.com. In this paper, we describe the variety of the vocabulary used. We classify the different ...

The exploration of heritage regional language varieties and the identity quest in Russia take place against a background of protest against standard Russian, a legacy of the Soviet era, and involve heated discussions ...

The results of the field collection of professional argots are stated in the following paper. Farmers of Ardennes and Aisne departments who deal with cultivating grain-crops, breeding cattle and meat-processing took part ...

The object of this paper is to analyze the lexicon of the chat conversations which is characterized by the great feeling of wanting to belong to the chat group community. The identity and crypto-recreational functions ...

This article presents some results of research in multimedia translation especially in the field of French-German contrastive description of film-subtitles. Our analysis is based on original dialogues and scripts of some ...

In 2009 we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the proclamation of the Hungarian Republic born from the ashes of Communist Hungary. 1989, the year of the transition, brought major changes to both Hungarian slang research ...

The suburban slang is characterized by usage of code words and words borrowed from various linguistic communities, generation of new meanings for existing words. It is increasingly used in the contemporary drama, becomes ...