The Confessional Diversity of 16th-century Polish Religious Lexis: Recapitulation and Research Postulates
The Confessional Diversity of 16th-century Polish Religious Lexis: Recapitulation and Research Postulates

Summary/Abstract: The author summarises the research conducted so far on the confessional differentia-tion of Polish religious lexis in the 16th century, which was initiated in the 1960s by Kon-rad Górski, a literary historian. In his publication Zagadnienia słownictwa reformacjipolskiej (The Issue of the Polish Reformation Vocabulary), the scholar argued that Prot-estants used different words than Catholics to designate important religious concepts,and that lexis was an important factor to identify the denomination. This thesis had a significant impact on the assumptions and research objectives formulated by subse-quent scholars who addressed the relationship between denomination and vocabulary.In the section of the article containing research postulates, attention is drawn to thenecessity of verifying Górski’s position, which was already initiated to a limited extent,mainly in the works by Tomasz Lisowski, who pointed out other than confessionaldeterminants of lexical choices in the 16th-century translations of the Bible. It is con-sidered necessary in the postulated research to broaden the resource base, to take intoaccount the pragmatic diversity of the source texts (sender-receiver relations, inten-tions), to introduce numerical data objectifying the conclusions, as well as a compara-tive reference to the status in other languages.

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