Bo v. ponieważ i inne spójniki w mówionym i pisanym. Kartka z dziejów mylnych mniemań
Bo [because] vs. ponieważ [because] and other conjunctions in spoken and written language. A page from the history of misconceptions

Summary/Abstract: The starting point of the article is the normative belief that some conjunctions, such as because (bo) and but (ale), are typical of speech and should be used in it, and some, as because (ponieważ) and yet (lecz), are appropriate for written works. They were tested on the material of randomly selected short texts from philosophy, linguistics, literary studies, psychology, journalism, literary criticism and popular science texts about language. The research procedurę had several stages: 1) beliefs, 2) doubts, different point of view, 3) material assembly, 4) study, 5) results, 6) interpretation, 7) conclusions. The author belives that this scheme is suitable for use in Polish lessons. The initial idea turned out to be wrong: conjunctions because (bo) and but (ale) occur in the reviewed texts much more often than because (ponieważ) and yet (lecz).

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