Niby-„tutejsza” polszczyzna mówiona na Łotwie okresu międzywojennego w oczach jej użytkowników (na materiale prasowym z lat 1922–1940)
The so-called ‘indigenous’ Polish speech in Latvia in the pre-war period from the perspective of its native users (1922–1940)

Summary/Abstract: The article stems from the author’s interest in the pre-war Polish press in Latvia. It is based on press materials, whose authors – for different different reasons – used language in their opinion typical for the spoken Polish dialect used by the lower classes. The collected data show the features that are treated by the Polish minority in Latvia as the most typical or most noticeable in their speech. The texts where the use of regional variation of Polish was conscious and purposeful exhibit a range of distinctive features at all levels of language. These features hardly ever occur in the press articles that have been written in standard Polish. The analysis of the texts provided a starting point for the present study. The purpose of the research was to determine the attitudes of writers and editors towards the local Polish dialect, its role in shaping the national identity and its significance in the lives of its users.

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