Przejawy potoczności językowej w tekstach użytkowych na podstawie korespondencji prywatnej Henryka Sienkiewicza

The article contains the analysis of informal lexis used in Henryk Sienkiewicz’s private letters. Selected material encompasses entire preserved correspondence between the writer and his family (1401 letters). Collected vocabulary and phraseology of common provenance revealed several features of the language of Sienkiewicz’s letters, especially in terms of writer’s preferences in the selection of verbal layer as well as its form and function. Important part of conclusions and observations pertains to the colloquialism that is specific to letters (being functional texts) in diachrony.

The material-based research is preceded by an overview of (selected) issues relating to the concept of colloquialism (development of studies on colloquialism, bibliography, opinions, standpoints) in the 20th century and today.