ŻYDOWSKI WIECH STEFANA WIECHECKIEGO
STEFAN "WIECH" WIECHECKI'S JEWISH SHORT STORIES

Summary/Abstract: Stefan Wiechecki's Jewish short stories were published in Warsaw newspapers in the 1930s, and a collected edition was compiled by Robert Stiller in the first decade of the 21st century. These stories feature extensive linguistic stylisation reflecting the sociolect of Jewish residents of Warsaw, known as "the Jewish wiech." This is a form of partial, oppositional, moderate, reconstructive, and informative argotisation. The stories contain a total of 52 instances of this stylisation (grapho-phonetics - 15, inflection - 12, syntax - 12, word formation - 4, phraseology - 3, vocabulary - 5, rhetoric - 1), which appear in both the dialogue and monologue sections of the texts. Argotisation in the texts of Wiech's Jewish short stories is largely endowed with characterising and structural functions, as well as a comic and humorous function. This testifies to the writer's considerable linguistic competence and his undeniable literary talent.

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