The perception of folk dialect in the 19th century

Postrzeganie gwary ludowej w XIX wieku

Abstract

_{https://doi.org/10.26485/RKJ/2018/65/12}

_{Article in Polish}

_{The article presents the perception of folk dialect in the 19th century in four perspectives. Research into dialects initiated by ethnographers and, continued by dialectologists are discussed in the article. The article also shows how the dialects have been used in literature. It extracts the features of folk speech in literature. On the basis of the most important nineteenth-century dictionaries the author indicates the relationship between dialect and general lexis. Through the analysis of registered territorial lexes and how it is qualified, the article aims to reconstruct the linguistic consciousness of the 19th century dictionariy writers. On the basis of language guides the article shows the ratio of contemporary standards of correctness to folk dialect word forms.}