DAWNE REGIONALIZMY LEKSYKALNE W POLSKOJĘZYCZNYCH WYDAWNICTWACH KSIĄŻKOWYCH A KWESTIA KSZTAŁTOWANIA SIĘ DIALEKTU KULTURALNEGO NA POWOJENNEJ LITWIE
OLD LEXICAL REGIONALISMS IN POLISHLANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS AND THE ISSUE OF THE CULTURAL DIALECT DEVELOPMENT IN POST-WAR LITHUANIA

Summary/Abstract: The paper concerns the issue of development of a literary variant of the Polish language in post-war Lithuania. The author asserts that the North postwar borderland cultural dialect is not a new creation formed on the basis of North borderland folk dialects, but a specific socio-continuator, which gradually loses its regional characteristics. This hypothesis is supported by the following facts: 1) the lexis of the early post-war publications is marked regionally stronger than the lexis of the later ones; 2) old North borderland regionalisms constitute a significant part of early post-war lexis; 3) text frequency of old borderland regionalisms is the biggest in the early post-war texts; 4) old lexical regionalisms are not accidental but well-known and deeply-rooted in the post-war cultural dialect. The author associated the continuity of the North borderland tradition with the activities of the old generation of Vilnius intelligentsia, namely, the educated Polish people who, on account of their good education, were taking up either work in spontaneously opened Polish schools or posts in editorial offices of Polish newspapers, or participating in the cultural life of early post-war Vilnius.

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