Wielka litera w tekstach urzędowych. Wybrane problemy związane ze stosowaniem kryterium znaczeniowego
Capitalisation in official texts. Selected problems related to the application of the semantic criterion

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses the orthographic standard of the modern Polish language as regards capitalization. On selected examples, we point to the fact that the general nature of orthographic rules governing capitalization makes them ignore numerous phenomena characteristic of the economic and legal sphere. The absence of an up-to-date and diverse sample material illustrating the individual rules, in turn, hampers making prescriptive decisions with regard to the spelling of specific expressions from the domain of the latest official Polish language. As a consequence, the mismatch between codification and usage increases, which is exemplified in the analytical part of the paper. The conducted research leads to the conclusion that such standardization of the spelling of specialist varieties of Polish as satisfies the needs of its users is an urgent matter.

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