Nominal prefixes in Eliza Orzeszkowa’s letters Cover Image

Przedrostkowe formy nominalne w listach Elizy Orzeszkowej
Nominal prefixes in Eliza Orzeszkowa’s letters

Author(s): Kwiryna Handke
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: przedrostki; składnia; polszczyzna XIX wieku; prefixes; syntax; the 19th-century Polish language

Summary/Abstract: The author draws up her attention to a certain, so far unnoticed, methodological problem connected with the presence of regionalisms in literary works written in the common Polish language. Regionalisms most frequently appear in literary works due to writer-intended stylizations. They can also be used in belles-lettres if a writer uses his own regional variety of the national language. This article presents another way for introduction of linguistic regionalisms into literary works – pursuant to the „cognitive-emotional fascination of the region”. According to the author, this notion is not a scientific category, but solely a proper way to describe specific situations in the literature. She bases her considerations on the cognitive-emotional fascination of Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841–1910) by the Polish language of the noble backwoods of the Grodno region in her novels {On the Niemen and Bene Nati} and of Józef Łobodowski (1909-1988) by the regional Polish language of the Polish-Ukrainian border region in his {Ukrainian Poems}.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 65
  • Page Range: 143-159
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish
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