Ponglish jako przykład adaptacji językowo-kulturowej

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the linguistic and cultural integration of Polish immigrants in Great Britain. Together with the onset of the mass immigration of Poles to Britain in 2004, our UK-based compatriots entered a hybrid linguistic-cultural reality. Ponglish, as a result of the Polish-British linguistic and cultural contacts, applies words, phrases and syntactic structures derived from British English, thus forming a kind of a Polish- -British speech. This speech reflects the type of adaptation that occurred in the case of Polish immigrants, namely integration.