Wykluczenie i wykluczony we współczesnej polszczyźnie

Exclusion and the excluded in contemporary Polish Summary The article concerns the functional evolution that the lexemes wykluczenie i wykluczony have undergone in Polish from the 19th century (the moment of structural borrowing from Russian) until today. As the authors show, these words, initially present in the general language (as indicated by lexicographic notations), began to appear in scientific texts at the end of the 20th century. In the Polish language of the 21st century, they supplemented the terminological resource, and then – as at least partially determinologized units – began to function in the public discourse. The appearance of new collocations with these lexemes (e.g. wykluczenie cyfrowe, wykluczenie komunikacyjne) confirms the widening of the scope of the disturbing phenomenon, which is social exclusion.