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Publication details [#7534]

Péter, Mihaly. 1981. Zur onomasiologischen Charakteristik des Slangs im Ungarischen. Grazer Linguistische Studien 15 : 197–210.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

German

Keywords

expressive function | lexical innovation | slang

Language as a subject

Hungarian

Annotation

Lexical innovation as practised in slangisms does not so much enlarge the cognitive but rather the expressive functions of speech. The existence of 'groups of slang' ('Slangbünde') is suggested.