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Panorama de la sociolingüística andaluza

Valeš, Miroslav (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2014)

The variety of Spanish spoken in Andalucía has always attracted the attention of both linguists and writers, who have used it to depict their “local characters”. The first studies of the dialect spoken in Andalucía followed ...
Minor word-formation processes in jargon bird names in English

Kos, Petr; Popelíková, Jiřina (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2014)

The present paper analyzes minor word-formation processes, namely clipping, blending, initialism, and motivation by linguistic form, on one specific sample of the English lexicon — jargon bird names. It aims to search for ...
À propos des troncations de noms propres — les spécificités des mots onomastiques tronqués

Fridrichová, Radka; Popelíková, Jiřina (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2014)

This paper focuses on the current trend of using clipped or abbreviated proper names in contemporary French. Its aim is to describe the specific features of onomastics in the French language. The treatment is based on the ...
Reggae Francophone : Alternance codique et emprunts

Chodakova, Polina (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2014)

This paper deals with the language practices of French-speaking reggae singers and listeners. The observed phenomena comprise code-switching (selecting and alternating between languages) and lexical borrowings in reggae ...