Regionalne i ponadregionalne cechy podhalańskich pieśni zbójnickich
Regional and general features of outlaw songs from Podhale region

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present the regional and general dimension of poetic folklore texts.The analysis is based on outlaw songs of Podhale recorded in several ethnographic compilations,above all in Oskar Kolberg’s Dzieła wszystkie. The regional hallmarks of Podhale include outlawthemes, phonetic, grammatical and lexical features of the local dialect of the Podhale region andSlovak borrowings used as poetic devices. The universal dimension of these songs is seen in theuse of typical devices of folk poetry such as diminutives, lexical and grammatica archaisms,displaced accent, non-lexical vocables, end-stopping, feminine rhymes, morphological doubletsand repetitions. The great variation of texts of each song is also universally typical for folklore.

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