Din istoricul cercetării argoului românesc. Unele observații etimologice și semantice asupra vocabularului argotic românesc actual

Abstract

The slang – a branch of the common language through which a category of speakers forms a register of words and expressions intended to camouflage negative aspects of reality – have been of particular interest for the linguists, who wrote studies and specialized dictionaries. It is undeniable that slang is a living part of a language, having a special color and being in continuous change, either by borrowing from other languages or by adding new meanings to the already existing words. Starting from the analysis of the bibliography in the field, the purpose of our study is to capture the dynamics of this extremely offering segment of vocabulary, the transition of some words from the common lexicon to the slang lexicon and the semantic changes undergone.
At the same time, our paper emphasizes that the main enrichment sourse of the Romanian slang is the Romanian language itself, the etymology of the words that we shall discuss reflecting the linguistic interferences that the Romanian language undergone during its history.