Ekspresywizmy dodatnie utrwalone w pamiętnikach byłych mieszkańców Kresów północno-wschodnich
Positive Expressivisms Recorded in the Diaries of Former Residents of Poland’s Northeastern Border Areas

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with some emotionally colored words and word combinations which existed in the idiolects of the residents of Poland’s northeastern border areas in a period of 1918-39. Positive emotionalisms, which are presented and analyzed herein, make up two groups: 1) the diminutive forms; 2) the hypocoristic words. The diminutive forms are typical for the appellatives referring to people - duszeczka, panoczek; the house – kąteczek, sionka; household outbuildings – odrynka, świronek; houseware – samowarczyk, kilimek; culinary products – chłodniczek, bulionczyk; and animals – kabanek. Hypocoristic words, however, distinguish persons who are determined by the appellatives, e.g.: babciuchna, papańka, and by anthroponims, e.g. Adamko; Edek, Edzia, Edzieńka, Edka; Werunia, Nineczka. . In addition, the author has analyzed how specific northeastern positive expressivisms are formed. Thanks to carefully selected citations, she also emphasized the role of the context and the con-situation which supported the use of the positive expressivisms.

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