e article focuses on the issue of expressiveness of the students’ language and, in particular, on the ways in which they signal amazement. Amazement is atype of emotion that constitutes areaction to something unexpected, surprising, unforeseeable, unknown and shocking. Positive and negative emotions of students are primarily connected with school as an educational institution (and, for example, grades, tests and quizzes). Expressiveness is the basic feature of the language of students who attended schools not only at the beginning of the 21st century, but also in the 20th century. This is visible in dictionaries of student jargon published in this and the previous century. In student language amazement is visible in language resources that either refer to the nonverbal means of expression or to the verbal reaction. In consequence, such expression of amazement involves different means of exposition of this emotion: 1) as averbal expression of the nonverbal emotion, 2) as averbal reaction (to somebody/something unexpected and shocking).
This paper describes the problem of the social variant of Polish and focuses on the emotionalisms and the ways of expressing emotions. The most common is the usage of neologisms. In this article there are described few different semantic field referring to feelings, persons, places in the college, different types of subjects and the ways of passing them. The analysed material has been gathered with the survey conducted among students of different Posen colleges in 2009–2013. The conveyed analyses have showed that students use few ways of expressing emotions and the most often use the language ways to express negative emotions and values. This situation might be combined with the ways of perceiving difficult areas of the college by students. What is more, the emocionalisation in students language is often combined with the vulgarization of the Polish language and the ways of expressing emotions and values characteristic for the youth and their language.
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