Co wiemy o polszczyźnie na „białoruskim Polesiu” na podstawie „Puszczy” Józefa Weyssenhoffa?
What do we know about Polish language in the “Belarussian Polesie” area, based on the novel ”Puszcza” by Józef Weyssenhoff?

Summary/Abstract: Józef Weyssenhoff dedicated his work, Puszcza (1913; the third and last novel belonging to the so-called ‘Lithuanian cycle’) to the “Belarussian Polesie”, which he knew well as a result of being hosted on numerous occasions by his friends and relatives in their properties, located in Polesie. The work, which is an extremely vivid literary image of Polesie, provided the writer with an opportunity to portray a multi-ethnic, but also environmentally diverse Polesie community consisting of: Polish borderland noblemen who were established there for centuries, the courtiers of the gentry, and the simple population inhabiting forests in Polesie – local fishermen, axemen, pitch burners. The subject of this work is the state of knowledge about the specific variety of Polish language used in Polesie in the first decade of the twentieth century and its social diversity, attested in the Puszcza through the writer’s rich linguistic stylization.

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