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Polszczyzna Żydów w szmoncesie kabaretowym. Zjawiska fonetyczne
The Polish of the Jews in cabaret szmonces. Phonetic phenomena

Author(s): Anna Krasowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: cabaret; szmonces (Jewish comic skit); Jewish languages; Polish speech of the Jews
Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to discussing the phonetic phenomena characteristic of the Jews’ Polish speech, as observed in the interwar cabaret Jewish skits (szmonces) in Poland. Those phenomena result from the influence(s) of Yiddish, the Eastern borderlands’ Polish, East Slavonic languages as well as the very creativity of the authors who imitated the authentic speech of the Warsaw Jews. The linguistic devices introduced therein served identifying and comic functions in the skits.

  • Page Range: 23-42
  • Page Count: 20
  • Publication Year: 2019
  • Language: Polish