Andrzej Napieralski

University of Łódź

Andrzej Napieralski, a disciple of Alicja Kacprzak and Jean-Pierre Goudaillier, is an assistant professor at the University of Łódź, where he has been teaching since 2011. He is the author of around fifty articles on non-standard varieties of French, focusing particularly on verlan, rap lexicon, and contemporary neology. His current research explores verlan as a key mechanism of linguistic innovation and social identity, highlighting its creative, cryptic, and symbolic dimensions within urban discourse. He also analyses how lexical creation in rap mirrors broader sociolinguistic processes linked to marginality, resistance, and cultural transformation in youth language.