The paper deals with the issue from the field of speech act theory including a study of a collection of about 220 private letters dating from the latter part of the 19th century. Several speech acts like greetings, ...

The author of this paper separates and characterizes argumentative structures shown in a collection of married letters written in the 60s and 70s of the 19th century. Letters can be seen as the equivalent of a conversation ...

The article is focused on the problem of choosing formal expressions -a, -u in singular genitive of masculine nouns, which has been frequently discussed in literature. The study, as distinct from an extensive work by J. ...

The considerations set out in the article are the reason for the studies on idiolects of extraordinary creative persons of the past ages. The basis for the study is 487 private letters of a Sultan’s painter – Stanisław ...

The paper prepared on the basis of hand-written letters of Zofia Kraszewska addressed to her husband, Józef Ignacy, is the author’s next publication of 19th century epistolography. The paper is an introduction to planned ...

This paper is devoted to the lexeme tchawica from a diachronic perspective. The first part is the description of a trachea (its functions and structure) as an anatomical organ, which is followed by the analysis of its ...

This analysis is based on an unpublished collection of 25 sonnets written by Wincenty Byrski one hundred years ago. They are devoted to the Tatra subject matter. The author of the article, applying the methods of cultural ...

The article is based on the assumptions of cultural linguistics and concerns the genrespecificity of a letter. The author, through the analysis of grammatical categories, semantic and pragmatic forms of expression and ...