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Język a dziedzictwo kulturowe pogranicza
Language and the cultural heritage of borderland

Author(s): Bogdan Walczak
Subject(s): Language studies, Communication studies, Sociology of Culture, Philology, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Akademia im. Jakuba z Paradyża
Keywords: language; ethnic and linguistic borderland; history; cultural heritage

Summary/Abstract: The article’s author argues in favor of his thesis that just as the literary languageis on the one hand a mirror, while on the other hand material and an instrument of thecommunity of users’ spiritual culture, so is the regional language (dialect, subdialect)a mirror, material and an instrument of the regional culture (represented by folklorein language). In case of the ethnic and linguistic borderland’s multilingualism, all theethnolects amount to its cultural heritage.

  • Issue Year: 14/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 161-174
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish