ZAPISY DIALEKTOLOGÓW JAKO ŹRÓDŁO HISTORYCZNE
Dialectologists’ transcripts as a historical source

Summary/Abstract: The author of this text proposes a new application of dialectologists’ transcripts – as a source of authentic autobiographical accounts useful in the research on oral history. She presents and discusses a transcript of an interview given to linguists and students of dialectology by Maria Sztrecel, a resident of Kwik, a village in the Masuria region, near the town of Pisz, in 1951. What emerged from the informant’s replies to the questions included in the dialectal questionnaire was a local, emotional and unoffi cial version of history told in the purest dialect. As a result of the post-war change of borders, the community and culture of the inhabitants of the Masuria and Warmia regions were doomed to annihilation. The dialectologists’ transcripts collected at that time could help in the research conducted by historians, ethnographers and culture experts on the pace, course and costs of the process.

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