Płeć w języku, płeć w stylu. Proza Zyty Rudzkiej na kursach języka polskiego lub/i literatury dla obcokrajowców
Gender in language, gender in style. Zyta Rudzka’s prose in PFL and literature class

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate that contemporary literary texts are excellent teaching material in Polish language and literature classes for foreigners. The article is devoted to an excerpt from Zyta Rudzka’s prose and proposals for its use in PFL courses and those taught in Polish philology as a foreign language. The basis for taking up the topic of gender diversity in Polish was the author’s lecture experience. After all, the ability to use a language efficiently includes not only its standard variety, but also its unofficial and colloquial (after Wilkon „spoken”) variety: regional, environmental and/or professional. Increasingly, however, questions about the biological variation of language are also being raised in the class. The article proves that when discussing this issue, it is useful to turn to a literary text. The author begins the argument by presenting positions on women’s literature and women’s style in prose. She describes the discussion taking place around biolects and presents their determinants. Then she reaches for an excerpt from Zyta Rudzka’s novel and sets it in the reality of Polish language glottodidactics. She presents linguistic and mediation exercises that fit into sociocultural considerations of gender and social roles of men and women.

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