Propozycje terminologiczne z zakresu architektury i budownictwa w Budowie kościołów Piotra Aignera (1825)
Terminological proposals in the sphere of architecture and building in Budowa kościołów by Piotr Aigner (1825)

Summary/Abstract: In the article there is an analysis of specialized vocabulary from the sphere of architecture excerpted from Budowa kościołów written by Piotr Aigner. According to the research 38 names(31% of the investigated material) are neologisms created by Aigner, which are equivalents or translations of their Latin architectural terms (for example, głownik is an equivalent of the Latinword capitellum; łęk – the Latin word arcus), which had not occur in the 19th-century Polish language and were not disseminated later. As it seems creating new specialized native names in the sphere of architecture when Poland was divided by foreign invaders may be interpreted as a kind of language purism, an example of treating the language as a basic factor that shapes the national identity.

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