Słownictwo ograniczone czasowo i przestrzennie w powieści Wiesława Myśliwskiego Widnokrąg z perspektywy komunikacyjno-językowej
Temporarily and spatially limited vocabulary of the Wiesław Myśliwski’s novel Widnokrąg from a communicative-linguistic perspective

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to provide a communicative-linguistic perspective on the vocabulary selected from the Wiesław Myśliwski’s novel Widnokrąg. As a result of the changing ways of communication – caused by the dynamic social, economic, and cultural processes – part of the lexis goes out of use and only remains in the memory of those for whom it constitutes a significant element of identity. This phenomenon is of a universal nature. We assume that literature is a basic medium of memory of a cultural community, and the lexis contained in it transfers selected images of life, helping to memorize them or adding new elements to he reader’s competences. The vocabulary that creates the image of the world in Widnokrąg reconstructs and reinterprets the past both in the author/narrator and in the reader. The vocabulary selected from the analysed novel, retained in the memory of an individual, shows reality form the perspective of a “small homeland”, enabling the reader to know the realities of the life lived there, and thereby to extend his or her own memory.

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