Gwara za Olzą
Dialect Beyond the Olza River

Author(s): Irena Bogoczová, Małgorzata Bortliczek
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Customs / Folklore, Poetry, Fiction, Phonetics / Phonology, Lexis, Semantics, Pragmatics, Comparative Linguistics, Czech Literature, Polish Literature, Phraseology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Zaolzie; West Cieszyn dialect; mowa po naszymu; regional literature; social media; dialect stylisation
Summary/Abstract: The publication brings about the linguistic material related to the present day, to current literary studies, social media, and informal conversations of the natives. It aims to comprehensively present Zaolzie's linguistic situation in a way that is also friendly to readers outside the academic environment. It shows the traditional Zaolzie dialect in the literary works of local writers and poets, who use its ludic values, and in the fiction of Czech-language regional writers. The subsequent chapters draw attention to dialectal communication in social networks: websites, podcasts, vlogs, chats, etc. According to the authors, the presence of the dialect in the Zaolzie society results from the need to promote the region and its specificity.

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