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Vulgarisms, swear words and insults are a considerable and integral part of everyday language. They are used in various circumstances, such as releasing negative emotions and/or to hurt one’s feelings. These terms are also present in German and Polish song lyrics. The aim of the data analysis is to investigate functions and meanings of the lexeme 'Arsch' / 'dupa' in order to verify whether their usage in song lyrics is consistent with their definitions in dictionaries or exceeds them. The data sample comprises vulgarisms from 200 German and Polish rap and rock song lyrics. The main research area was the lexeme 'Arsch' / 'dupa', which is present in many word formation constructions in rock and rap song lyrics.
People's sex life is very often, if not always, taboo in everyday life. The theming of this area of life is made possible by various linguistic means that allow one to speak about this content. Phraseological units also serve this purpose. The starting point of this article is the definition of phrasemes according to Burger (2015:11): "Firstly, they [phraseologisms] consist of more than one word; secondly, the words are not put together for this one occasion, but are combinations of words that we, as German speakers, know exactly in this combination (possibly with variants), similar to how we know German words as individual items". In addition, it is noteworthy that thanks to the characteristic of idiomaticity (cf. Fleischer 1982:30), this taboo is particularly reinforced. At the center of our analysis are phrasemes related to sex life. The research material was taken from German and Polish dictionaries. The purpose of the presentation is to create a typology of thematic areas which are characterized with the help of phrasemes relating to sex life in German and Polish. The article is based on the following definition of a taboo: "an unwritten law that forbids doing certain things based on certain beliefs within a society" (Duden 2015:1735).
Diverse Facetten der Linguistik. Linguistische Juniorentreffen in Wrocław I, 23.–24. November 2018
(2019)
Diese Tagung initiierte den Zyklus "Linguistische Juniorentreffen in Wrocław" und richtete sich an StudentInnen und DoktorandInnen. Die Tagungssprachen waren Deutsch, Polnisch und Englisch. Die TeilnehmerInnen stammten aus Polen, Russland, Slowenien, aus der Schweiz, Deutschland, Rumänien, Österreich, aus der Slowakei und aus Brasilien.