Specificity of the idiolect of the Old Believers’ middle-aged representative in Suwałki-
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Osobliwości idiolektu przedstawiciela średniego pokolenia staroobrzędowców regionu suwalsko-augustowskiego
Specificity of the idiolect of the Old Believers’ middle-aged representative in Suwałki- Augustów region

Author(s): Magdalena Grupa
Subject(s): Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Western Slavic Languages, Eastern Slavic Languages, 18th Century, Phraseology
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: Old Believers; idiolect; Russian dialect; Polish language; phraseology;

Summary/Abstract: The Old Believers appeared on the territory of contemporary Poland in the second half of the 18th century. Back then they lived in isolation, therefore in the 20th century the intensification of contacts with Polish linguistic-cultural surroundings occurred. Assimilative processes sped up after the World War II. A little bit later differences in the speech of individual generations started to develop, which became very clear in the 21st century. Competence of the younger generations in the Russian dialect is more and more limited, the youngest community representatives are displaying tendencies of the linguistic change. The informer M-1977, whose idiolect has been the subject of analysis, is the representative of the youngest members of middle-age generation. The informer uses the Russian local dialect and Polish language on the level of the elaborated code and because of the preserved dialectal features, stylistic richness and the productivity in borrowing the lexis and the phraseology, he may be considered as an outstanding personality in his community.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 33-39
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Polish