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ecause of the fact that they create a sort of social group. Such a social group is
characterized by some norms and values that accompany each member in
different situations. The question to deal with here is: can I attribute this group
to a professional group, and is the hunter a type of occupation? The answer is
often confusing. Thinking of the hunters, it seems to us that they work in a
specific profession. Stanisław Grabias (2003: 82) writes about the professional
lect that is “the language of the environment joined by the professional activity”.
Among many professional lects Stanisław Grabias (2003) stresses the language
of the hunters that the author names as a professional group. Stanisław Grabias
(2003) assumes that we talk about hunting as a profession. Further, Stanisław
Grabias (ibid.) adds that such a group uses the professional lect to communicate
to each other. However, the opinion created by Stanisław Grabias is
questionable. During my research I have checked if the profession of hunter
appears in the classification of professions (Dreger 1996). 13 I did not find the
hunter as a type of profession in the above-mentioned classification. Thus, I
cannot define the hunters as a professional group. Hunting discourse, as the
name indicates, is one type of discourse; it belongs to sporting discourse. This
type of discourse appears as the group of hunters.
As was suggested, hunters create a social group and use a sociolect in
social interaction. Although they differ in the language (English, Polish,
German) they use, their sociolect remains the same characteristic factors that are
familiar only for hunters. Therefore, they still share the same set of rules
ascribed to this notion. What is more, the communication between hunters is
swifter and offers more possibilities in overcoming linguistic barriers. The
environment and hunters’ need to communicate determine the basis for their
sociolect. Referring to one of the definitions where sociolect is defined as one
language variety linked with a social group, it can be noticed that the major
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Dreger, Jadwiga (ed.) (1996) Klasyfikacja zawodów i specjalności. Warszawa:
Ministerstwo Pracy i Polityki Społecznej, Główny Urząd Statystyczny.
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