The Motion of Slovak Vocabulary As a Reflection of Society Development After Year 1989

Year 2015, Volume: 5 Issue: 4, 64 - 67, 23.07.2016

Janka Píšová

Abstract

Vocabulary belongs to the most flexible part of the language and it often changes and evolves together with the society and nearly immediately reacts on the movement is society system and mirrors its social, community and political relationships. Slovak language as a state language had a function in variety of state establishments. The noticeable changes in these units often had as well an influence on the Slovak language. Since the year 1989 is considered the considerable milestone change in our society, we are concentrating on the vocabulary movement before and after this period. We note the dynamics of the lexical Slovak language in the last decades, in other words the spontaneous processes direct or lead in the retreat of certain lexical units, stylistics review, semantic changes and revitalization of those units as well as the growth of new words and phrases from domestic and foreign languages

Keywords

Slovak vocabulary, vocabulary units, creation of new vocabulary units, revitalization of vocabulary units

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