Literatura piękna jako źródło do badań z zakresu socjolingwistyki historycznej

Abstract

The author, referring to his earlier works and opinions of other scholars (particularly Elżbieta Umińska-Tytoń), justifies the value and usefulness of literary (artistic) texts as a source of information for historical sociolinguistics. The material is based on the novel by Eliza Orzeszkowa Nad Niemnem [On the Neman River], and the main point of the justification is the language used in Bohatyrowicze village as the picture of the sociolect of the neighbourhood nobility.