Status and Prestige of the Polish Enlightenment Language in the Light of Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski’s Comments Cover Image

Status i prestiż oświeceniowej polszczyzny w świetle uwag Adama Kazimierza Czartoryskiego
Status and Prestige of the Polish Enlightenment Language in the Light of Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski’s Comments

Author(s): Magdalena Hawrysz
Subject(s): History, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Western Slavic Languages, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: status of language; prestige of language; the Enlightenment; Polish under the partitions; Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the study is to reconstruct the views on the status and prestige of the Polish language in the end of the 18th century in the light of the book by Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski „Myśli o pismach polskich”. The work is cognitively attractive, as it gives a testimony to the status and prestige of the Polish language in the breakthrough period for the Polish state, i.e. just after the Third Partition, and even before the intensification of the tendencies to deprive Poles their national identity. In his book „Myśli o pismach polskich”, the author expresses an unshakable view of the high status of Polish and the shattered prestige. Institutions such as stable state power, capital, intellectual elites, scientific and critical publishing houses, periodicals, schools, theaters, the family can be distinguished among the factors shaping both spheres.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 27-37
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish