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Od dzieci z nieprawego łoża do dzieci nieślubnych. Z dziejów polskiej terminologii prawnej

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Woźniak E.

LingVaria : Półrocznik Wydziału Polonistyki UJ poświęcony zagadnieniom języka i językoznawstwa

2017

issue 23

151-164

The paper presents the various names given in Polish legal terminology to children born outside of marriage, from the oldest times to the interwar period. The process of stabilization of indices of this concept was a relatively long one. In mediaeval legal texts, we find multiple variants, most of which mirror Latin terms, e.g. nieprawego łoża ‘of unlawful bed’, nieczystego łoża ‘of impure bed’, niecnie narodzony ‘dishonourably born’, niedobrze urodzon ‘ill-born’, and also the neologism wyleganiec. Synonymous terms survive into the Middle Polish stage (16th – mid-18th c.), the most frequent ones being złego łoża ‘of bad bed’, niedobrego łoża ‘of wrong bed’, niepoczciwego łoża dzieci ‘children of indecent bed’. In the 19th century, two terms compete: dzieci nieprawego łoża ‘children of unlawful bed’ and, introduced in the translation of the Napoleonic Code, dzieci naturalne ‘natural children’; by the end of the 19th century, dzieci nieślubne ‘unmarried children’ become more widespread. A characteristic feature of the analysed terms is the presence of an evaluating element, which mirrorrs the contemporary legal status in which extramarital children were treated as a worse category and discriminated against. Finally, the paper draws attention to the differences between the civil and the canonic law, with regard to their choice of terms for ‘love children’.

O stylistycznym zróżnicowaniu dawnej leksyki – na przykładzie oficjalnych i potocznych nazw dziecka nieślubnego

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Woźniak E.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Językoznawcza

2018

vol. 25

issue 1

225-237

The author attempts to determine stylistically three old terms for extramarital child: wyleganiec, pokrzywnik and bękart. These words have been up to now classified as colloquial and expressive, with negative undertone. They appear separately in the Old Polish and 16th century texts and are of different character. An abusive term pokrzywnik is recorded only in relation to defamation cases. Official terms wyleganiec and bękart are present in old legal texts, biblical translations and dictionaries. This regularity shows the beginning of stylistic differentiation in the Old Polish lexicon, however the author is aware that the difference between colloquial and formal terms in the past was not necessarily so sharp as it is today and we cannot attribute present meaning to the past lexicon.

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Od dzieci z nieprawego łoża do dzieci nieślubnych. Z dziejów polskiej terminologii prawnej

O stylistycznym zróżnicowaniu dawnej leksyki – na przykładzie oficjalnych i potocznych nazw dziecka nieślubnego