Literackie i paraliterackie teksty gwarowe z czesko-polskiego pogranicza
Literary and Paraliterary Dialect Texts from the Czech-Polish Border Region

Summary/Abstract: The present article entitled Literary and Paraliterary Dialect Texts from the Czech-Polish Border Region is devoted to authorial texts stylized in a dialect. It concerns the Silesian dialect in the Těšín region, on both sides of the state border (i.e. in the Czech Republic and Poland). The research material comes from shorter literary texts (prose) published in the regional press or in book forms. The authors (of these texts) are two women who are amateurs in literary production. One comes from the Czech part of Těšín, the other from its Polish part. The focus of the article is on the modifications of the dialect at the level of lexemes and phrases (phraseologisms), but also on morphological and phonetic phenomena, and consequently on the “orthography“ of the dialect texts. The analysis shows that although both authors write in the same dialect, each of them does it a little differently. The influence of the standard language – Polish or Czech – is evident in their texts. On the other hand, it should be emphasised that writing in a dialect still has its sense: dialect is an attractive linguistic code, rich in expressive devices, and readers find pleasure in being able to identify with this specific regional language, which they themselves use to a large extent.

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