Janosik – gwara na szklanym ekranie?
Janosik – a dialect on the small screen?

Summary/Abstract: The paper is an attempt to analyse the language used by the characters of one of the most popular Polish films of the 1970s, that is Janosik, directed by Jerzy Passendorfer. Research on the dialect stylisation exponents (conducted based on Stanisław Dubisz’s methodology) in the movie lead to the following conclusions: // 1. The most important stylisation role is played by systemic exponents (in particular phonetics), while non-systemic ones, including lexis, on the basis of which it can be precisely determined which type of stylisation is in question (dialecticisation, colloquialisation or archaisation), are less signifi cant; // 2. The majority of the features used for stylisation purposes are characteristic of the Podhale dialects (although, which needs to be emphasised, some of them have quite a broad general dialectal reach), owing to which stylisation fulfi ls the localisation function; yet there are also exponents which prove that the stylisation process determinants were at certain points intuitive rather than scientifi c (e.g. mazuration of ž derived from r’); // 3. The majority of the exponents play the descriptive function, mainly with reference to the social and psychological description of the characters of highland robbers and highlanders inhabiting Podhale villages, thanks to which they can be distinguished from the court characters or hajduci of the burgrave. The language of Janosik lacks, however, clear differentiating features which would be characteristic of one character only. The descriptive function is blurred with this respect.

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