Common (?) communication spaces in public discourse

Abstract

Language does not only represent reality, but also creates it. Likewise, it forms our identity, defines as an individual and as a member of a particular social or – in a broader perspective – cultural group. What allows us to identify with a particular language is our cultural, political or national affiliation, the same geographically outlined area and the outside world, which is non-language in its character but affects this language significantly. Discursive images of reality, in which we participate, are more or less understandable, and thus, more or less accessible. The article is an attempt to answer the question, what aspects of our non-linguistic knowledge determine (and to what extent) our perception of reality, and hence our belonging to a specific group of participants in the discourse. The point of reference here constitute occasionalisms (nonce words) present in media public space, which more often than not create sense of the utterances or replace longer syntactic units.