In the present paper the discourse of sexuality in writers’ diaries of the 20th century is presented: how the authors wrote about love and passion, what the difference between masculine and feminine discourses was and what influenced the forming of these discourses. It was proved that women, due to their depressed sexuality in patriarchal society, perceived sexual attraction as a display of love and endowed it with mysticism which included the desirable and the forbidden, whereas men separated love from passion, wrote openly about sex, had a disrespectful attitude to their mistresses and tried to humiliate women who refused them.
The work concerns the problem of language determinants of old-time epochs (16th–17th centuries) erotic discourse. The research material constitutes chosen texts representing rhetorical low style as close to colloquial variant of language. One pointed two main discourse tendencies: picturesqueness and allusiveness. Analysis illustrates the universality of language measures, their panchronic character, ludic and euphemistic functions. Furthermore the connections of examined discourse with colloquial variant of Polish and with the lingual and cultural stereotypes were confirmed.
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W artykule podjęto problem językowych eksponentów dawnego (XVI–XVII wiek) polskiego dyskursu erotycznego. Materiał badawczy stanowiły wybrane teksty reprezentujące styl niski jako bliski odmianie potocznej języka. Wskazano dwie główne tendencje dyskursotwórcze: obrazowość i aluzyjność. Analizy ilustrują uniwersalność zabiegów językowych, ich panchroniczny charakter, funkcje ludyczną i eufemizującą. Potwierdzony został także związek badanego dyskursu z potoczną odmianą polszczyzny, a także ze stereotypami językowo-kulturowymi.
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