Rak jako metafora w języku internautów – znaczenie i nacechowanie ekspresywne

Rak (Cancer) as a metaphor in the language of Internet users – meaning and expressive attitude This paper concerns the description and expressive evaluation of the word rak (cancer), which appears in texts of Internet users. The new uses of word rak are the language change caused by English borrowing sentence pattern that appears in image macro “That Post Gave Me Cancer”. That image macro quickly gained ground on the Polish Internet last years. This paper concentrates on the metaphorical use of the word rak and its previous meanings in Polish. In addition, in the description of the expressive attitude, the article refers to the general tendency to use the disease names as sources of metaphors.