Nieoficjalne nazwy księży i katechetów w języku użytkowników Internetu i uczniów szkół

Contemporary onomastics is a science supporting social, psychological and sociological research, and is a branch of science dealing with proper nouns and their multilevel relations and interactions with the surrounding language and extra-linguistic reality. Herein article pertains to informal names of priests, nuns, religion teachers, especially these lexical units expressions incident both to the speaker or recipient and to the broad context of communication act. An individual in this aspect acts based on a wide competence, both community accustomed or individual. The selected informal names: nicks, monickers, soubriquets, aliases lash together the socio-cultural and individual aspects, whereas the speaker’s and the recipient’s personal communication skills are the key element to achieve the communication purpose. The author, basing on internet materials and literature gives examples of groups of semantic names occuring most frequently in the material in question. She draws examples, points out various ways of communication meaning appearance, she also shows us different modifications given both by the speaker and also by the recipient, that are independent from lexical-semantic level. It’s the human factor whose linguistic and cultural competence and social affiliation decide on emotional and stylistic features of the name. Whether it has a negative, neutral or positive overtone.