O językowych środkach ekspresji w wierszowanych opisach bitew przez historyka Litwy i Rusi Macieja Stryjkowskiego
On linguistic means of expression in rhymed descriptions of battles by Maciej Stryjkowski, a historian of Lithuania and Ruthenia

Summary/Abstract: The author has long studied M. Stryjkowski (1547 – ca. 1586−1593), describing grammatical qualities of his language in terms of phonetics, morphology, and syntax. She traced dialectal and Ruthenian traits, addressed versology (in phonetics) and poetics (in word-formation). After outlining her previous work, in the present article she describes the emotive features of Stryjkowski’s language. For her source material she chose a 1978 publication of the manuscript O początkach […] sławnego narodu litewskiego, żemojdzkiego i ruskiego [On the origins of the famed Lithuanian, Samogitian, and Ruthenian nation]. From it, she selected 19 accounts of battles in the period 1182−1506. Stryjkowski’s poetic talent is seen in his laconic intensity of harrowing battle scenes, supported by use of rhetorical and literary figures known since antiquity.

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