Rozmówki polsko-hiszpańskie. Problemy językowe i próby ich przezwyciężenia podejmowane przez polskich uczestników hiszpańskiej wojny o niepodległość w świetle materiałów wspomnieniowych
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Krzyżostaniak, Magdalena
xmlui.dri2xhtml.METS-1.0.item-citation: Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. 327, Studia Historicolitteraria 21 (2021), s. [75]-86
xmlui.dri2xhtml.METS-1.0.item-iso: pl
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hiszpańska wojna o niepodległość 1808–1814Polacy w służbie Napoleonowi Bonapartemu
literatura wspomnieniowa
komunikacja werbalna i niewerbalna
transfer językowy
Spanish War of Independence 1808–1814
Poles in service to Napoleon Bonaparte
memoirs
verbal and non-verbal communication
language transfer
Date: 2021
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The article presents selected mechanisms of communication between the Polish participants of the Napoleonic
campaign in 1808–1812 and the local population behind the Pyrenees.The sources of information were the memoirs of
Polish soldiers fighting on the Iberian Peninsula in the Grande Armée. Even though a significant part of the memoirs
focuses on the military aspects of the participation of Poles in the Peninsular War, several do provide a whole
spectrum of information about the daily lives of soldiers on foreign ground and many observations regarding the
customs of their brothers in arms – mainly the French – as well as the local population.Among the fragments devoted
to the non-military aspects of their stay on the Iberian Peninsula, the remarks on the attempts at communication –
both verbal and non-verbal – between Poles and Spaniards seem to be particularly interesting. The purpose of this
article is to explain why, in many situations, efficient communication could not take place in an intermediary
language (French) and how the Polish soldiers dealt with lexical and grammatical structures in the previously
unknown Spanish language. It is worth pointing out that language transfer is clearly noticeable – both from the
native language of the soldiers (Polish) and from French, which most of Napoleonic soldiers learnt as their first
Romance language.