Emocje, czyli o poszukiwaniu językowych środków ekspresywności w listach anonimowych
Emotions – A Search for Linguistic Means of Expressions in Anonymous Letters

Summary/Abstract: Anonymous letters are a challenge for linguists and raise a whole range of questions that ultimately allow a creation of the linguistic portrait of the possible author. One of these questions concerns the emotional layer of the anonymous letter and the way anonymous authors express their emotions in language. This article is a contribution to the discussion and analysis of a specific type of speech genre, which is anonymous letter. The data comes from a pilot study of the original anonymous letters, the primary purpose of which is to create a corpus of those letters.

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