ROLA EPISTOLOGRAFII W UNIWERSYTECKIM NAUCZANIU HISTORII JĘZYKA POLSKIEGO (NA MARGINESIE PRZYGOTOWYWANEGO NOWEGO WYBORU TEKSTÓW DO HISTORII JĘZYKA POLS
The role of epistolography in teaching the history of the Polish language at universities

Summary/Abstract: This paper overviews a specially selected presentation of Polish epistolography collected in a selection of texts prepared as part of the research project (no. 0089/FNiTP/H11/08/2011) „Teksty do historii używania języka narodowego z aneksami” („Texts for the history of using the national language with annexes”), pursued under supervision of Prof. dr hab. Marek Cybulski, in the context of the role of this type of sources in teaching the history of the Polish language at universities. The authors of this paper assume that in the face of continuous and deepening deprecation of that subject and manifestation of disinterest in or even reluctance for studying the diffi cult issues of the history of language, an anthology of source texts prepared in a manner attractive in terms of erudition and materials could encourage students to explore the subject matter of the history of language. A special place in such a selection is given to correspondence. Hence, a corpus of circa a hundred of private and offi cial letters from the period from the 15th to 21st century, which certify both model genre realisation and variant approaches, were prepared as part of the project. Based on the collected letters, the evolution of the old graphy, realisation of phonetic phenomena, and formation of the grammatical system can be demonstrated during classes in the history of language. It might be extremely interesting for students to demonstrate the impact of external considerations on pragmalinguistic phenomena regarding communication competence, genology and linguistic etiquette.

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