Linguistic creation of a Jewish family in Meir Ezofowicz, a novel by Eliza Orzeszkowa Cover Image

Językowa kreacja rodziny żydowskiej w powieści Meir Ezofowicz Elizy Orzeszkowej
Linguistic creation of a Jewish family in Meir Ezofowicz, a novel by Eliza Orzeszkowa

Author(s): Elżbieta Skorupska-Raczyńska
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Sociology, History and theory of sociology, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: linguistic creation of the world; lexis; stereotype

Summary/Abstract: In her novel, Meir Ezofowicz, the author provides an insight into the social and cultural reality of a Jewish borderland town in the second half of the 19th century. The four Jewish families featured in the novel come from diverse cultural, socio-economic, and religious backgrounds. The linguistic images created by Orzeszkowa reflect the stereotypical perception of reality, and, at the same time, condemn all anti-social behaviour, including that observed within the Jewish diaspora community.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 311-331
  • Page Count: 21