SITUATION OF POLISH LANGUAGE IN LITHUANIA IN THE BEGINNING OF 20 CENTURY IN THE LIGHT OF JÓZEF WEYSSENHOFF NOVEL 'UNIA' (Sytuacja jezyka polskiego na Litwie na poczatku XX wieku w swietle powiesci 'Unia' Józefa Weyssenhoffa)

• Authors: Koniusz Elzbieta
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article aims at describing the situation of Polish language in Lithuania in the beginning of 20 century as it was described in the novel 'Unia' by J. Weyssenhoff. The authoress tries to evaluate credibility of this source and its value for studies of Polish language spoken in Kowno region. She reminds that the novel (published in1910) was written when the Polish-Lithuanian conflict was growing and Polish language was endangered not only by the partitioner but also by national Lithuanian movement. Special attitude is paid to the picture of Polish in the Kowienszczyzna region where linguistic and national problems were known to Weyssenhoff by personal experience. The authoress describes this complicated picture: classification of Polish variants proposed by Weyssenhoff, the weakening condition of Polish language and various threats to it. She shows that Weyssenhoff's description provides an interesting documentation, valuable because we do not have other sources concerning this part of the region.

Keywords

EN

LANGUAGE OF POLISH BORDERLAND

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: LingVaria : Półrocznik Wydziału Polonistyki UJ poświęcony zagadnieniom języka i językoznawstwa
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 2(8)
• Pages: 95-110
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Koniusz Elzbieta

• Elzbieta Koniusz, Uniwersytet Humanistyczno-Przyrodniczy Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach, Instytut Filologii Polskiej, ul. Lesna 16, 25-509 Kielce, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA074324