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Postrzeganie gwary ludowej w XIX wieku
The perception of folk dialect in the 19th century

Author(s): Elżbieta Umińska-Tytoń
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe
Keywords: dialectology; the 19th century; the history of Polish language; dialektologia; wiek XIX; historia języka polskiego

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the perception of folk dialect in the 19th century in four perspectives. Researchinto dialects initiated by ethnographers and, continued by dialectologists are discussed in the article.The article also shows how the dialects have been used in literature. It extracts the features of folkspeech in literature. On the basis of the most important nineteenth-century dictionaries the authorindicates the relationship between dialect and general lexis. Through the analysis of registeredterritorial lexes and how it is qualified, the article aims to reconstruct the linguistic consciousnessof the 19th century dictionariy writers. On the basis of language guides the article shows the ratioof contemporary standards of correctness to folk dialect word forms.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 65
  • Page Range: 195-207
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish