POGLĄDY WITOLDA DOROSZEWSKIEGO NA KULTURĘ JĘZYKA
Witold Doroszewski’s views on the culture of language

Summary/Abstract: Witold Doroszewski treated the culture of language as a signifi cant part of linguistics. He believed that popularising correct Polish and knowledge of language is more important than pointing out and analysing linguistic errors since promoting positive models is the basis of work on language. He defined language as one of the forms of the human activity in the society. Apart from numerous specifi c solutions, radio advice, collected in 3 volumes of O kulturę słowa (About the culture of the word), he also formulated several general principles of the culture of language. He presented the fi rst set of criteria for linguistic correctness, developed theoretical assumptions of the dictionary of correct Polish, defined the notion of linguistic norm and linguistic error. Many fi ndings and observations contained in his studies have been valid to date, his way of treating prescriptive linguistics has been continued by his students.

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