Teksty urzędowe autorstwa mieszkańców wsi jako materiał do badania ich kompetencji komunikacyjnych – problemy i wyzwania metodologiczne
Official texts written by villagers as material for communicative competence research – the methodological problems and challenges.

Summary/Abstract: The recent civilization and culture-related transformtions in rural areas have created a need for interdisciplinary research that will capture the essence of these changes and will characterize them. To date, research has focused on the spoken language as the primary form of communication of villagers; they make use of written texts mainly to communicate with public administration institutions. Therefore, these texts pose a unique opportunity to gain insight into the linguistic competence of villagers related to communication, text-forming, and style, as well as their persuasion strategies. These documents also show the extent to which a local dialect is reflected in written texts. The value of these records has been confirmed by a study of documents submitted to social assistance centres in Lesser Poland. An analysis of the language material from other areas would allow to draw more general conclusions concerning the official language of villagers.

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