Elementy etykiety językowej w listach Bolesława Prusa do Oktawii Rodkiewiczowej (Żeromskiej)
Elements of language etiquette in letters written to Octavia Rodkiewiczowa (Żeromska) by Bolesław Prus

Summary/Abstract: This article includes an analysis of the collection of 36 letters that Bolesław Prus wrote to his friend, and his friend’s wife, Octavia primo voto Rodkiewiczowa Żeromska, in the years 1890–1904. The aim of the article was to indicate and linguistically discuss the elements of epistolary courtesy etiquette (greetings, farewells, thanks, apologies, wishes) used by Prus in this correspondence. In addition to standard expressions and phrases, conventional and outdated formulas traditionally used in correspondence between an older man and a younger woman – a widow, a married person, in letters we will find expressions that are out-of-the--box, personalized, unique, witty and ingeniously encrusted with compliments.

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