Admirator „rodowitego języka”, zatroskany purysta językowy, baczny obserwator „Polaków amerykańskich”… Wokół refleksji językowych utrwalonych w Listach z podróży do Ameryki Henryka Sienkiewicza

• Authors: Katarzyna Węgorowska

Title variants

EN

Admirer of the „native language”, linguistic purist… on linguistic reflections preserved in Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Letters from a journey to America (Listy z podróży do Ameryki)

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

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EN

The text is devoted to those Sienkiewicz’s letters-features, letters-reports, letterscommentaries, letters-articles, letters-reviews in which the author of Quo vadis:1) verbalizes the situations of the „American Polish people” in the contemporary United States of America, 2) describes the Polish language they used, 3) expresses anxiety about its state, 4) analyzes the phenomenon of denationalization of the compatriots living abroad, 5) pays attention to the progressive Germanization and the linguistic-cultural Anglicization, 6) shows conflicts in the Polish organizations and institutions in America, 7) displays attachment to the Polish language of Helena Modrzejweska – distinguished theatrical personality. Letters from a journey to America (Listy z podróży do Ameryki) is a source of very valuable and diverse (also linguistic) information about the life of the 19th century Polish diaspora in America struggling not only with the material, but also spiritual, including linguistic, problems.

Keywords

PL

listy; Polonia; polszczyzna; wynaradawianie

EN

letters; Polish diaspora; Polish language; denationalization

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Linguistica
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 50
• Pages: 173-184

Dates

published

2017-04-24

Contributors

author

Katarzyna Węgorowska

Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/0208-6077.50.13