Określenia nazywające dzieci w gwarach Śląska. Analiza przemian leksykalnych – wyniki ankiety
Terms referring to children in the dialects of Silesia. An analysis of lexical transformations – results of a survey

Summary/Abstract: The paper contains an index of Silesian lexis in the range of terms with reference to children, drawn up on the basis of the files in possession of PIN – Instytut Śląski (State Scientific Institute – Silesian Institute) in Opole. The sample used for the subject analysis (about 450 entries) is made, in their majority, of lexems dating from the 20thcentury, collected until the 1980s. The studies were carried out in 2009, mainly in Opole Silesia, in several counties neighboring on one another, that is: Opole (Zawada, Polska Nowa Wieś, Nakło), Strzelece Opolskie (Ligota Czamborowa), Krapkowice (Malnia), Kędzierzyn-Koźle (Mechnica), as well as in Gliwice County (Rudno). They allowed perceiving the lexical transformations occurring in the Silesian dialects in contemporary times. The young generation of Silesians (respondents of about 30 years of age), in around 60% of the cases, do not know the dialect lexis referring to children, which was presented to them. The terms which were known to a few of that group only were, in the majority of cases, acknowledged to be old-fashioned, functioning, in a way, in the language of the local community of the examined place, chiefly in the language of the old generation.

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