Research into the lexis in the field of folk costumes based on the  Spiš  Dialect  Corpus  data. Cover Image

Badanie pola tematycznego z zakresu stroju ludowego na podstawie danych z Korpusu Spiskiego
Research into the lexis in the field of folk costumes based on the Spiš Dialect Corpus data.

Author(s): Helena Grochola-Szczepanek
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Western Slavic Languages
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: thematic vocabulary; folk costume; corpus data.

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to discuss the names of folk costumes from contemporary speech of the inhabitants of Spiš in Poland. It is common knowledge that as the traditional forms of rural life disappear, so do archaic names replaced by new, more general terms.The data come from the Spiš Dialect Corpus. The obtained results consist of a collection of about 150 names of elements of folk costumes. The description is divided into thematic fields concerning men’s and women’s outfits. The names vary in terms of formality, semantics, geography and frequency.

  • Issue Year: 14/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 81-94
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English
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