Belferomowa. Uwagi o współczesnym profesjolekcie nauczycieli

Anna Wileczek

doi:10.31261/PS_P.2022.29.10

Published: 2022-07-13

Vol. 29 No. 1 (2022)

Teacher Talk: Notes on the Contemporary Professional Jargon of Teachers

Anna Wileczek

Section: LANGUAGE DIVERSITY, VARIANTS, REGIO- AND PROFESSIOLECT

https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2022.29.10

Abstract

In this article, Anna Wileczek describes a professional subcode of present-day teachers in relation to a specific, unofficial pattern/conversational style, which is known as “teacher talk”. Wileczek has conducted semantic-pragmatic analyses (from a sociolinguistic perspective) of the linguistic database collected from questionnaires, interviews, and teachers’ communicators. She has reconstructed three lexical-semantic profiles related to the teaching profession (professionalisms, neologisms, formulaic microtexts) and she has identified meaningful semantic fields: teaching, its organization and documentation/reporting, place and time of workplace, persons in educational interaction, and formulas of communication games. In the image of the world fixed in the professional jargon of teachers, the dominating position is occupied by the human person as the subject of professional interaction (teaching, organization of work, its documentation, professional development). The teacher is subjected to the requirements and rigors of the institution in which they work, establishing relations with other subjects – the students – willingly cooperating within the framework of standard communication contacts and new media, using communities with a professional bond to self-educate, maintain contact, meet the social needs, etc. Due to the professional-sociolectical leaning of teacher talk it is also possible to indicate structures in which the expressive or ludic parameter dominates, alongside the professional register (consisting of neologisms, acronyms, and neosemantisms). In addition, numerous examples of more or less clichéd signs of the second class (sayings, remarks, verbal shortcuts) allow us to draw conclusions about the participation of teachers in the ongoing social and communicative game.

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professional jargon of teachers , teachers’ informal communication , professional subcode

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Wileczek, A. (2022). Teacher Talk: Notes on the Contemporary Professional Jargon of Teachers. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 29(1), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2022.29.10

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Anna Wileczek

anna.wileczek@ujk.edu.pl
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9851-6114

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Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce Poland

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ANNA WILECZEK – PhD, D. Litt., professor of the Jan Kochanowski University
in Kielce, Kielce, Poland

Linguist, professor at the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, deputy director for scientific affairs of the Institute of Literary Studies and Linguistics, head of the Department of Discourse Studies and the Open University of the Jan Kochanowski University. She conducts research in the fields of sociolinguistics, educational linguistics, and online discourse. Among her publications are monographs Szkolna(nie)komunikacja [(Mis)Communication at School] (Warsaw 2015), Kod młodości. Młodomowa w kontekstach społeczno-kulturowych [The Code of Youth: Youth Talk in Socio-Cultural Contexts] (Warsaw 2018), Język i komunikacja. Wprowadzenie dla pedagogów [Language and Communication: An Introduction for Educators] (Warsaw 2020)

Vol. 29 No. 1 (2022)
Published: 2022-09-09

ISSN: 1898-1593

eISSN: 2353-9844

10.31261/PS_P

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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