Staropolska tytulatura grzecznościowa w dramatach Stanisława Wyspiańskiego
Old Polish courtesy titles in Stanisław Wyspiański’s dramas

Summary/Abstract: The article is concerned with Old Polish courtesy titles which occur in Stanisław Wyspiański’s dramas. They are found in ten out of thirty two works of the writer. The conducted analyses have proved that the writer recreated carefully the sociolinguistic rules concerning the use of courtesy titles in his texts. He also introduced the old expressions of addressing others mainly in historical texts in order to obtain archaic stylization of the characters’ expressions. However, they also occur in contemporary dramas in which they are used as allusive references to the Polish aristocratic culture.

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