Heritage of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish Northeastern Borderlands in the light of erudite linguistics Cover Image

Dziedzictwo Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego i Kresów północno-wschodnich w świetle ustaleń językoznawstwa erudycyjnego
Heritage of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish Northeastern Borderlands in the light of erudite linguistics

Author(s): Katarzyna Węgorowska
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Museology & Heritage Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Culture and social structure
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: erudite linguistics; extralinguistic facts; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; Polish Northeastern Borderlands

Summary/Abstract: The essay contains reflections on the ways of using erudite linguistics, a young discipline created by me, in the study of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish Northeastern Borderlands. Correlation of linguistic and extralinguistic conclusions (culture, history, art, gemology) permits us to look in a new way at many facts of the Polish Northeastern Borderlands that linguists had not been interested in before, such as old Polish Northeastern Borderlands museum artifacts, jewelry of Grand Duchy of Lithuania, icon of Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn, cult of the dead in the Polish Northeastern Borderlands, architecture of the old Vilnius, manor house in Czombrów – the prototype of Soplicowo (the village in Pan Tadeusz epic poem), descriptions of Henryk Poddębski’s daguerreotype images, Vilnius identity of Henryk Szylkin or symbolic-figurative nicknames of Vilnius.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 38
  • Page Range: 244-262
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish