Żydy 'Jews' and Psy 'Dogs' in Stadium Hate SpeechThe paper discusses selected problems of the language of football fanatics who constitute the so- -called szalikowcy subculture ('hooligans; lit. scarfers'). The author pays most attention to two (pejorative) personal expressions: żyd 'Jew' and pies 'dog' which, in the hate-saturated conflict between the fans of two clubs from Cracow, Cracovia and Wisła, are used as heavy insults and invectives serving to humiliate and depreciate the opponent.

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... paper analyses the sphere of negative semantic connotations of both words, their origin and fluctuations.