The Electronic Corpus of Texts and Recordings from
Poland’s Spisz Region. The Assumptions of The Database
and The Possibilities of its Use as a Source
of Interdisciplinary Research Cover Image

Korpus spiskich tekstów i nagrań gwarowych. Założenia projektowanej bazy i możliwości jej wykorzystania jako źródła badań interdyscyplinarnych
The Electronic Corpus of Texts and Recordings from Poland’s Spisz Region. The Assumptions of The Database and The Possibilities of its Use as a Source of Interdisciplinary Research

Author(s): Ilona Kulak
Subject(s): Anthropology, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: electronic database; database online; corpus; Poland’s Spisz region; spoken language; dialect texts

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the corpus of texts and recordings from Poland’s Spisz region as a source of material for the study of culture and history of this historical, geographical and ethnographic land located in the Western Carpathians. Th e paper deals with electronic database of dialectal transcripts and recordings collected during research within the project Th e language of the Spisz region inhabitants. Th e corpus of texts and dialect recordings carried out by Th e Institute of the Polish Language at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Th e main aims of the research project is to document spoken language of inhabitants Spisz region and to develop an electronic corpus of dialect texts. Nevertheless rich and various material could be useful not only in language studies, but also in historical, ethnographic and folklore studies. Th erefore the article contains the general information about the project such as exploratory research or transcribing texts and examples of informants’ statements.

  • Issue Year: 46/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 30-49
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: Polish