FEATURED NEOLOGISM:

CRINGE / CRINGE’OWY – in Polish, If we say that something is cringe’owe, it means that it evokes unpleasant feelings in us, such as shame (especially on someone else’s behalf), embarrassment, strangeness, patheticness, or discomfort. It is an informal and expressive word, used with distance and disapproval, mainly by young people and teenagers.

Andrzej Napieralski, a disciple of Alicja Kacprzak and Jean-Pierre Goudaillier, is an assistant professor at the University of Łódź, where he has taught since 2011. He has authored approximately forty articles on topics such as non-standard French, the analysis of rap discourse, and recent neologisms found on social networks. After publishing La langue du rap en France et en Pologne (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014), he has continued to focus on the analysis of rap texts while also exploring neologisms, neological borrowings, internet commentary, and verlan. His current research examines internet discourse through the lenses of lexicology (word-formation processes), discourse analysis (rhetorical figures), and slang.