Abstract

MICRO- AND MACRO-STRUCTURE OF THE DICTIONARY OF NEOLOGISMS OF THE LANGUAGE OBSERVATORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WARSAWThe author of the article discusses the principles of acquiring and compiling entries for the crowdsourcing dictionary of neologisms created at the Warsaw University. The dictionary is also briefly shown against the background of other dictionaries of neologisms and other community dictionaries. The sociolinguistic background of the emergence and functioning of new lexical units is also outlined, and the vagueness of the term ‘neologism’ is signalled.

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