Language of Hajnówka as element of language stylization in crime story Okularnik by Katarzyna Bonda

Język Hajnówki jako element stylizacji w powieści kryminalnej Okularnik Katarzyny Bondy

Abstract

_{https://doi.org/10.26485/RKJ/2018/65/1}

_{Article in Polish}

_{Katarzyna Bonda has recently become one of the most popular authors of crime stories. She was born in Hajnówka, a town in North-eastern Poland, situated near the Belarusian border. A rather complicated and peculiar language situation can be observed here: the inhabitants speak Polish (including its regional variants), East-Slavic languages (Belarusian and Ukrainian) and East-Slavic sub-dialects. The story told by Bonda takes place in this small town. In Okularnik various elements of the town inhabitants’ language can be found: e.g. typical anthroponyms, loanwords from Belarusian or Russian and forms from East-Slavic subdialects. There are words used in the Eastern Orthodox Church, words typical of Eastern rituals and traditional cuisine. Although only a few dialect forms and loanwords are used infrequently by the author, the use of the stylized language is itself very surprising in this literary genre.}