Szlachecka wspólnota językowo-kulturowa w świetle ramowych formuł epistolarnych z XVII i XVIII wieku
The noble linguistic and cultural community in the light of the epistolary framework formulas of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the description are linguitic polite behaviors reflecting the noble cultural community of the 17th and 18th centuries. The material basis is epistolography, or more precisely, frame fragments of 500 letters. The justification for such a choice of material is the role of the letter as an essential tool of social communication in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and as important component of the Middle Polish customs. The article uses the method of structural-functional analysis in combination with a linguitic approach. As a result of the analyses carried out, it was proved that the initial and final formulas of the letters from the 17th and 18th centuries reflect the social structure of the noble estate, the system of values declared by the representatives of the noble estate is manifested, and some aspects of the lifestyle characteristics of the nobility are revealed.

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