The article tries to characterise diminutives and affective forms both in terms of quantity and ąuality. It analyses eight poems written by seven Polish writers of the Romanticism period. The analysis is based on the ...

The article contains a description of subject matter of numerous (more then 140) short sports jokes (in majority dialogues) from the period since the January Uprising till World War II. The texts of these jokes were published ...

The article contains results of lexical analysis of 8 romantic poems (including the national epos) of 7 eminent Polish romantic authors: Antoni Malczewski, Adam Mickiewicz, Seweryn Goszczyński, Józef Bohdan Zaleski, Juliusz ...

The article describes amusing characterization of professors and teachers as the heroes of old jokes, published in 14 humoristic and satirical magazines on the turn of the 19th century and in interwar period of twenty ...

In works by Adolf Dygasiński are numerous nicknames - unofficial personal names of literary heroes. They are differentiated according to sociological circles of these heroes. Most of all they represent country unofficial ...

The article presents lexical and semantic peculiarities found in puns published in Krakow and Lviv humour magazines at the turn of the 20th century. The lexical peculiarities include archaisms and obsolete expressions, ...

The article presents a great number of emotional words in 8 romantic poems by 7 poets. The collection contains almost 1100 words, among which dominate negative words. Some of these emotional words are old and disused in ...