Wzorzec gatunkowy pierwszych polskich sprawozdań stenograficznych – na przykładzie Sprawozdań stenograficznych z rozpraw Sejmu Krajowego w Galicji
The genre pattern of the first Polish stenographic reports on the example of stenographic reports from the sessions of the Diet of Galicia and Lodomeria

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to describe the genre pattern of stenographic reports of the meetings of the Diet of Galicia and Lodomeria in session between 1861 and 1914. The Diet of Galicia and Lodomeria is the first parliament in the history of Polish parliamentarism whose sessions were documented in the form of stenographic reports. Therefore, these reports represent the first stage in the study of the genre, hitherto underexplored by philologists but in continuous operation from 1861 to date. The paper draws on an extensive collection of more than 1,000 texts. Research shows that stenographic reports are a highly petrified genre. Its coherent character is determined by the author’s overarching intention, an all-encompassing vision of the world, and an internally ordered structure made up of mostly relatively autonomous elements. The identity of the genre is shaped by the delimiting elements found mainly in the initial and final parts of the corpus. They organise the text, make it easier for the viewer to navigate through it, and mark the boundaries between components. Other types of metatext serve as a complement to speeches and legal documents. The editorial aspect of the reports, which underwent several transformations over more than fifty years of the Diet of Galicia and Lodomeria, is of great value in terms of delimiting and providing information. The conclusions from this paper provide a good basis for describing the changes in stenographic reports and comparing them with the parliamentary diary, a dominant genre used to document parliamentary sessions before 1861.

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