Janusze, halyny, sebixy i karyny. Memy internetowe jako źródło nowych eponimów

Internet memes are an important element of the modern culture and their vocabulary is transmitted to other texts thus becoming an important component of communication and familiarity with it becomes necessary for the understanding of various statements and utterances. The object of the description is the meme eponyms and their derivatives. In the analysis of derivative words, the nest methodology and synchronic word formation principles were applied, and in the description of their bases, i.e. eponyms identical to the base ones, references were made to the studies by B. Dereń and M. Rutkowski. The research permitted the determination of a high word formation activity of meme eponyms the status of which varies: some of them are stabilised, which allows their recognition as dictionary units, while others are textual. A large number of the structures have been created with the use of the same formants and word formation techniques. What deserves particular attention is verbs, which are very seldom coined based on first names. Similarities to creating eponyms based on last names can be seen in derivation. Adjectives with the suffi xes –owat(y) and –ow(y) are coined fairly often. The analysed eponyms and their derivatives refer to the stereotypes of Poles functioning in online texts, which differ from the self-stereotypes functioning in the Polish culture to date