O języku mini wykładów o maxi sprawach Leszka Kołakowskiego
On Language in Mini-Lectures on Maxi-Issues by Leszek Kołakowski

Summary/Abstract: The style of Mini-Lectures on Maxi-Issues is apparently heterogeneous, eclectic; it comprises elements representing five language strata: 1. intellectualized high Polish (text architectonics, syntax, lexis), 2. sophisticated style (various types of syntactic parallelism, expanding on utterances by means of anadiplosis), 3. archaic linguistic elements (vocabulary, order of words and constituent sentences, pluperfect), 4. colloquial Polish (lexis, phraseology, pronoun what instead of which/who), 5. elements of an individual style (harmonious combination of the enumerated strata, usage of favourite words and phrases, original metaphors, neologisms, detachment of personal endings from verbs in the past tense, innovations in spelling). However, confrontation of these strata in one text, and sometimes in one sentence, does not result in stylistic eclecticism and does not create an effect of linguistic collage. Indicated tendencies (intellectualisation, sophistication, archaisation, colloquialisation, individualisation) make up a stylistically uniform text, yet original, very prominent in linguistic terms and far from ordinariness of the standard didactic and scientific style.

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