TY - GEN A1 - Niepytalska-Osiecka, Anna PB - Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk N2 - The article deals with the subject of criminal and prison vocabulary used behind the walls of prisons for women in Poland. The author used the survey method to collect the material. The main aim of the study, the results of which are presented in the article, was to find the elements of a specific language used by inmates in female prisons, and in particular to check: 1) To what extent do elements of criminal and prison vocabulary function in the communication of female prisoners? 2) Do women imprisoned in Polish prisons develop specific vocabulary about the situation in which they find themselves and the realities that are their common experience? 3) Does their communication contain vocabulary not previously recorded in studies on the “male” variant of prison communication? The paper presents the results of a survey conducted in five Polish prisons for women – the custodial remand in Warsaw-Grochów, prisons in Nowa Huta, Czersk, Grudziądz and Krzywaniec. The study was conducted in 2019 and it was attended by 336 women sentenced to imprisonment for various crimes. These women came from different backgrounds and levels of educa- tion, some were recidivists, while others were serving their sentences for the first time. The questionnaire presented to them by the researcher contained closed and open-ended questions. Closed-end questions checked whether the elements described in the literature on the subject as criminal vocabulary were used by women in prisons. In open-ended questions, the inmates shared their own examples of elements specific to the environment in which they found themselves. The article is an attempt to reach the authentic linguistic material. The text is part of the trend of empirical research and has the character of a research reconnais- sance. The survey results showed that most of the specific vocabulary used by female inmates comes from the general crime resource. The lexicon of female realities, created by the community of female prisoners, is a very small group. L1 - http://www.rcin.org.pl/Content/233336/PDF/237-Tekst%20artyku%C5%82u-1474-1-10-20211231.pdf M3 - Text VL - 35 CY - Kraków PY - 2021 EP - 390 KW - prison vocabulary KW - prison lingo KW - women’s language KW - women’s prison lingo T1 - The Language of the Women behind Walls of Polish Prisons. Study Report SP - 373 UR - http://www.rcin.org.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/233336 ER -