Dinamica sensurilor în limbajul fotbalistic. Observații și exemple recente

Abstract

Sporting language, seen from the perspective of all its subsets that make it up, is characterized by the presence of innovations, through figures of speech, wordplay, and colloquial expressions that we don't find, for example, in technical or specialized language, which is marked by objectiveness and references. This tendency is reflected in the field of semantics as well, either through extensions or constraints of meaning, but also through semantic depreciation or meaning ennoblement. We consider the press to be a useful tool in observing these phenomena simultaneously, since they reflect the creativity and degree of freedom with which the sports commentators and journalists refer to the sports phenomena. Subsequently, we will discuss a few particular situations that reflect the dynamics of sports language, with the main focus on football, which were observed recently in the specialized online press. The examples will point out the creativity of this are of language, which distances itself from the specific sport terminology and vocabulary through innovation, despite a terminological nucleus that individualizes each sport, where a continuous productive relationship exists between specialized and common language, from which many words originate.