Procesy zanikania języka na podstawie badań gwar polskich na Bukowinie rumuńskiej
Processes of Language Disappearance: A Case Study of Polish Dialects in Romanian Bukovina

Author(s): Karina Stempel-Gancarczyk
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Western Slavic Languages
ISSN: 1230-1302
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Polish dialects; Polish communities; Bukovina; Romania; language disappearance; language death
Summary/Abstract: This monograph aims to describe and analyse mechanisms behind the disappearance of dialects in Polish communities in so-called South Bukovina (the Romanian part of the historical area called Bukovina), as well as to assess the sources of and reasons for these processes, pointing out the similarities and differences observed in the researched villages where the Poles settled in the 18th and 19th centuries. The subject of the research are three out of four dialects identified by Stanisław Gogolewski and Elena Deboveanu: the dialects of the villages of Bulai, Ruda and Cacica. The presented work complements the latest research on Polish dialects in Carpathian Bukovina. The sociolinguistic description of the situation in the researched villages together with the identification of similarities and differences between Bulai, Ruda and Cacica corresponds with contemporary linguistic studies on language disappearance and so-called language death.

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