The language of young Old Believers is analyzed in this paper on the basis of records gathered during scientific camps organized in Gabowe Grady and Bór near Augustów by Nicolas Copernicus University (Torun) in 1999, 2001, 2004, and 2005. The Russian dialect of the investigated villages is nowadays strongly influenced by the Polish language. There are numerous loan words (adapted and non-adapted) and loan translation from Polish in the speech of our informants. Some phenomena can be considered typical for the sociolect of young Old Believers. The differences between individual cases (idiolects) are caused by socio- and psycholinguistic factors, such as personal attitude to the traditional dialect, and cultural and religious heritage, the individual language competence, the ability to produce elaborated code, prestige of the Old Believers dialect in primary groups, the unity of religious conviction in the informant's family and the dialect's social position at school and at work. Although some of the informants were recorded several times, no serious changes have been noticed: further long-term research is needed.
The article concerns a particular trait of individual speech patterns as present in certain literary works, viz., the use of long and short forms of possessive pronouns, e.g. mojego-mego, twoim-twych, swojej-swej. The basis for distinguishing this trait is the regional background of the authors, which is connected to regional differentiation of the language. It is banal to note that the content of the idiolect depends in large part on linguistic geography. On the other hand, it is evident that the emitter of the written text applies different artistic techniques, which fact may influence the choice of the given linguistic form. This is the case with short forms of possessive pronouns which are “attributed” to the written language, and certain authors employ them more often than the longer forms. At times it is easy to notice the stylistic turns in texts with a heightened frequency of compact forms of possessive pronouns. Interestingly, there are authors who do not resort to the shorter forms at all, regardless of the type of text or the artistic inspiration. The reason is the absence of these forms in the given idiolect. The problem of the presence or absence of these forms in the language of selected authors will be illustrated with artistic and publicistic materials.
The focal issue of the paper is the translation of elements of the idiolect (personal dialect, individual style), i.e. language of a given language user, which is influenced by various factors, such as age, education, occupation, interests and others. The term idiolect is discussed briefly with a focus on its importance in a cross-linguistic perspective. The translation of idiolect is a complex process, the first step of which is multiaspectual analysis of the idiolect, covering phonetic, lexical, phraseological, grammatical and other characteristics. Selected elements of idiolect are discussed and exemplified with the idiolectal elements from the spoken Polish excerpts recorded by the author who interviewed ten people for the purpose of the research study on the informal spoken variety of the Polish language. Certain practical solutions proposed for the translation of some elements of idiolect, including lexemes, phraseological units and grammar structures, genres are also presented and discussed.
The aim of the article is to present the textual tendencies used by Wincenty Witos in the texts addressed to serfs. The idiolect of Witos, based on the assumption that the personality of the author and his language are directly connected with each other, was analysed. Witos wrote his letters as simple, sincere and comprehensible texts, using humour and almost universal vocabulary (sometimes containing a colloquial speech). He applied reflections and metaphors, he referred also to experiences of ordinary people. He identified himself with the serfs and reduced distance between him and them. He often praised serfs and depreciated their enemies.
This paper discusses the question: Is it possible to combine individual language style with the scientific language? The attempt of the answer is the selection of quotations from Zenon Leszczyński’s (Professor of Polish linguistics) research output with various comments. Those quotations content examples of: titles of the articles, begins and ends of them and the parts of them, different types of metaphors, neologisms. It seems that the category of irony is the common attribute of all of these language acts of discussed author. The general conclusion underlines that the expression of the creative personality is possible even in the particularly organized (scientific) usage of the language.
The study deals with situating a literary work between general properties (laws) of literary discourse and singularity, between institution and idiom. According to Derrida, singularity cannot be achieved without participation in generality. A literary work as a singularity is not isolated – in order to be read as a singularity, it must be juxtaposed with other works, which it differs radically from. G. Deleuze paraphrases Proust saying that a writer invents a new language within a language. This other language within the previous natural and literary language, however, does not only have to function on the linguistic (stylistic) level, but also on the level of the „secondary language “, the system of literary codes and conventions. It may transcribe and transform not only the level of language in the common sense (deviated syntax) but also genre conventions (e.g. deviated crime story), literary etiquette. This language is not torn off the „old language “ (primary system), but it is created as its redesign. From the viewpoint of the „middle“ perspective of an individual literary work, the work (event) can thus become – for instance – a radical transformation of a particular genre structure. The genre norm, which is overcome by the given work, becomes a system of conventions, with regards to which this work is comprehensible: a genre is a condition of possibility of partial comprehensibility of an innovative work. Such a work is a sort of message partly encoded in a familiar language which flows into an unexpected, unknown language. A work – singularity, an event establishes a new code – idiolect. The work – event (an event as something that is unrepeatable by definition) is thus – according to Derrida – always pre-infected with a repetition structure so that it could be read at all.
The aim of the present considerations was the examination of the Polish speaking Lithuanian inhabitants' language features that are found in the poetry of Aleksander Sniezko. The analysis includes language elements that are related to the idiolect of the writer, as well as the elements having stylistic functions. The material for the analysis was taken from the volume of the poetry 'Wybór wierszy', which was issued in the year 2000. The analysis carried out shows that in the Sniezko poetry there can be found a lot of forms that are typical to the Polish language in Lithuania. Most of them belong to the specifically personal language of the poet (i.e. 'mie' in the accusative case, enclitic forms of the attributive pronouns, the ending '-u' in the accusative case of masculine nouns, nominal part of the predicate in the instrumental case, the object expressed in the instrumental case, syntactic constructions such as: 'czekac kogo, czego; bolec komu, pytac u kogo, u mnie jest' , the accusative case in negative constructions, Russian lexis), a part of the typically northern features were used by the author for the stylistic purposes (i.e. the ending '-m' in the first person, word building using the suffix '-uk', the adverbial participle proceeds in the function of the statement, Russian wording). All the language expressions found in the poems of Aleksander Sniezko have found confirmation in many linguistic works on the Polish speaking inhabitants' language of Lithuania. A deeper analysis of the above mentioned texts would allow pointing out more language features typical to the regional peculiarities of the language.
The aim of the article is to present comparatively the fragment of the world view (connected with concept of life) in the Polish language and in the idiolect of Jan Twardowski's poetry. The interpretations are based on Langacker's network model, on Lakoff and Johnson's cognitive model of metaphors and on the proposals of Polish authors about using cognitive methods in interpretation of poetry. The conceptualization of life (connected with the conceptualization of death) can be described both as commonplace (gr. topós coinós) – life is road, and as cognitive metaphor: LIFE IS ROAD / JOURNEY. The paper presents different particular realizations of this metaphor in the Polish language and in Twardowski's poetry. The analyses are carried out with the use of profiling method. The most characteristic for Twardowski's idiolect is the religious profile of life, conceptualized as a road (journey) to Heaven (God). So, the religious profile is the kind of metaphor LIFE IS ROAD / JOURNEY TO HEAVEN / GOD. This profile is often connected with the profile of heaven. The analysis shows that in Twardowski's poetic language, otherwise than in the everyday use of Polish language, a life which is hard and dangerous (as a road to God) is more valuable than a life which is easy and simple.
The article deals with the meaning of the term 'idiolect' in connection with the related sociolinguistic terms 'etnolect', 'sociolect', 'genderlect', 'cryptolect', as well as the research strategy oriented toward sociological parameters of the speaker, communication situation and time span over which the communication is taking place. The term idiolect is brought into correlation with the stylistic concept 'idiostyle'. The authoress stresses the need to take into consideration sociolinguistic parameters of the linguistic personality of the writer and distinguish the textual discourse in the study of the idiolect as a linguistic and artistic phenomenon.
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