O apostrofie łaskawy czytelniku i formule pożegnalnej bądź łaskaw w przedmowach do dzieł wydanych w latach 1650–1750
On the apostrophe łaskawy czytelniku (‘kind reader’) and the farewell formula bądź łaskaw (‘will you be so kind as to’) in the prefaces of works published in the years 1650–1750

Summary/Abstract: The article presents research on the collocation łaskawy czytelniku (‘kind reader’) and the farewell formula bądź łaskaw (‘will you be so kind as to’) in Polish literature from 1650–1750. Based on, inter alia, dictionary queries, the origin of both expressions was searched for, while corpus research (using the material of the general historical corpus and the specialized corpus consisting of 152 prefaces to works from 1650–1750) supported by statistical methods was used to indicate the functions performed by these formulas in the text. It has been shown that both expressions are highly conventionalized and function as templates, and the collocation łaskawy czytelniku is a statistical key word for introductory texts to an anonymous recipient in the ripe and late Baroque and the Saxon era.

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