Phonetic Regionalisms in Polish-language Publishing Houses and the Problem of Development of the North Boundary Cultural Dialect in Post-war Lithuania Cover Image

Regionalizmy fonetyczne w polskojęzycznych wydawnictwach książkowych a kwestia kształtowania się północnokresowego dialektu kult. na litwie po II wś
Phonetic Regionalisms in Polish-language Publishing Houses and the Problem of Development of the North Boundary Cultural Dialect in Post-war Lithuania

Author(s): Marek Marszałek
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Lithuania; regiolect; the Polish language; north boundary dialect; phonetics.

Summary/Abstract: The paper concerns the problem of development of the literary Polish language in post-war Lithuania. The author asserts that the post-war north boundary cultural dialect is not a new form on the basis of north boundary folk dialects, but a speci­fic sociolect-continuator, which gradually loses its regional characteristics. This hypothesis is supported by the following facts: 1) all phonetic peculiarities are earlier north boundary features, 2) text frequency of earlier phonetisms is the greatest in early post-war printed matter. The author associates the continuity of the north boundary tradition with speech activity of the old generation of Vilnius intelligentsia, namely, the educated Poles who owing to their good education, were either taking up work in sponta­neously opened Polish schools or posts in editorial offices of Polish newspapers, or participating in cultural life of early post-war Vilnius

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 33
  • Page Range: 131-155
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Polish