UŻYWANIE POLSZCZYZNY W KOLONII DOM PEDRO II NA TLE BADAŃ BILINGWIZMU POLSKO-PORTUGALSKIEGO W BRAZYLII
THE USE OF THE POLISH LANGUAGE IN THE DOM PEDRO II COLONY AGAINST THE STUDIES OF POLISH–PORTUGUESE BILINGUALISM IN BRAZIL

Summary/Abstract: The subject matter of this paper is Polish–Portuguese bilingualism observed in one of the Brazilian villages founded by Polish rural immigrants in the second half of the 19th century in the south of the country. The primary instrument for collecting data were the interviews conducted with 48 residents of the village in 2018. The presented outcome confirms the trends noticed in the study by S. Kucharski [1996] and W. Miodunka [2003]; namely, the fairly high level of preservation of Polish in Brazil and discrepancies in the level of command of the spoken and written code by the interviewees. The analysed data permit also the ascertainment of the phenomenon that Polish is being forgotten in the bilingualisation process and that it is disappearing in the surveyed village in general.

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