Communication of climbers – pragmatic and lexical analysis

As a result of the growing interest in mountaineering, and in particular climbing, which can be observed not only worldwide but also in Germany and Poland in the last decade, related communication has also become widespread. The aim of the present study is to examine the sociolect of climbers both pragmatically and lexically. The analysis points out the communicative contexts that occur, analyses standardised communicative protocols, presents a qualitative and quantitative study of climbing lexis, as well as reveals the naming motivations behind the studied terms and discusses the borrowing mechanisms through which these elements found their way into German and Polish. The appendix includes a Polish-German glossary of climbing terms.