The Magazine Gazeta Polska Bukowiny as a Source for the Study of Contemporary Written Polish in Ukraine Cover Image

„Gazeta Polska Bukowiny” jako źródło do badań współczesnej polszczyzny pisanej na Ukrainie
The Magazine Gazeta Polska Bukowiny as a Source for the Study of Contemporary Written Polish in Ukraine

Author(s): Ałła Krawczuk
Subject(s): Language studies, Media studies, Sociolinguistics, Western Slavic Languages
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: written Polish in Ukraine; "Gazeta Polska Bukowiny"; source material; interference; language norm; declension of a noun; electronic corpus;

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the magazine Gazeta Polska Bukowiny [The Polish Gazette of Bukovina], which has been published in Ukraine since 2007, as a source for the study of contemporary written Polish under the conditions of its contact with other languages in Ukraine. The analysis is set against the background of research on the press of the Polish national minority in the country. The article offers a discussion of the advantages and prospects of the linguistic study of texts published in Gazeta Polska Bukowiny, including the use of the electronic corpus of this periodical as a research tool. The study outlines the characteristics of the magazine (time of publication, structure, topics of texts, their authors, editing) and, in the most general terms, the scope of deviations from the general Polish norm, which can be analysed on the basis of texts written by people of Polish descent. The linguistic specificity of these texts is more precisely illustrated on the example of case forms of nouns which deviate from their normative Polish equivalents. The author considers the potential impact of interference resulting from contact between Polish and Ukrainian and – directly or indirectly – Russian, which functions in Ukraine alongside the official language of the country.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 45
  • Page Range: 1-20
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish