Korespondencja prywatna jako przyczynek do badań języka osobniczego (na podstawie listów prywatnych Henryka Sienkiewicza)
Private correspondence as the contribution to the studies on individual language (based on Henryk Sienkiewicz’s private letters)

Author(s): Leonarda Mariak
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Communication studies, Lexis, Psycholinguistics, Polish Literature, Western Slavic Languages, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: individual language; private correspondence; lexis; Sienkiewicz
Summary/Abstract: The article contains the analysis of individual properties of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s language based on the private correspondence addressed to his immediate family. The most important features of Sienkiewicz’s epistolary idiostyle are: emotionally marked lexical forms of colloquial provenance, represented mainly by idioms, colloquial lexis, especially diminutives, neologisms and terms of endearment. A peculiar element of Sienkiewicz’s writing is humor, sometimes also irony (self-irony).

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