Jan Karłowicz – uczony okresu przełomu
Jan Karłowicz – a scholar of the period of transformation

Summary/Abstract: The article evaluates J. Karłowicz’s Słownik gwar polskich (‘Dictionary of Polish dialects’) a hundred years after the publication of the sixth volume in 1911. The discussed work refers to European positivism and attempts to engage the theory and methodology of 19th c. ethnography in lexicography. Further, the paper discusses Karłowicz’s methodological assumptions laid out in his 1871 Poradnik dla zbierających rzeczy ludowe (‘A guide for collectors of ethnographic material’), and revises the severe and critical review by K. Nitsch, a supporter of linguistic geography. Finally, the conclusion is being justified that, after a hundred years, Słownik proves to be an innovatory work which directed the research towards cultural linguistics.

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