Wpływ czynników pozajęzykowych na współczesną sytuację języka polskiego na Litwie
The impact of extra-linguistic factors on the contemporary situation of the Polish language in Lithuania

Summary/Abstract: Researchers of the Polish social environment claim that the development of the Polish lan-guage outside of Poland depends on such extra-linguistic factors as: 1) political status of the polono-centric community, 2) the origin of the community in relation to the processes of indigenisation andmigration (emigration), 3) intentions towards the culture of the inhabited country, 4) social statusand social mobility, 5) legal standards related to the communicative community, 6) the degree ofcommunity cohesion, 7) generational differences, 8) history of formation and development. Tak-ing into consideration the above-mentioned statements, one can affirm that the Polish minority inLithuania has autochthonic traits, and is distinguished by the degree of spatial concentration andpreservation of the autonomous character of the culture. The behaviour of the identity and languageare influenced by such institutions as school, church, and various socio-cultural institutions, whichintegrate Poles as a national minority. Among these objective factors, school is the most importantinstitution, because it allows preserving written language. Written language is becoming a tool forcultural development and allows further preservation of multilingualism.

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