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Słownictwo nacechowane emocjonalnie w poematach romantycznych
Emotional Vocabulary of Romantic Poetry

Author(s): Edward Stachurski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Lexis, Semantics, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: vocabulary of romantic poetry; emotional words

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a great number of emotional words in 8 romantic poems by 7 poets. The collection contains almost 1100 words, among which dominate negative words. Some of these emotional words are old and disused in contemporary readers’ point of view. Neologisms (particularly in poems by Norwid and Krasiński), household words, localisms, dialectal and disdainful words are present in romantic vocabulary. Some of those emotional words are key-words of analysed poetic texts. All emotional words (also interjections) serve to show the relationships between protagonists and signal the narrator’s point of view.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 235-245
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish
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