Names in Polish Landowners’s Families at the turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Przybylska, Renata

doi:10.17651/SOCJOLING.34.11

Download

Title: Names in Polish Landowners’s Families at the turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Abstract:

The article concerns Polish personal names and their various unofficial versions and names of animals in thefamily language of Polish gentry families. Based on the diaries of representatives of landed gentry familiesconcerning the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, the author presents andinterprets the unofficial forms of names and nicknames used in these families. She shows the main structuraltypes of word-formation variants of male and female names, discusses their pragmatic functions andtypical contexts of use. She reveals the forms of names characteristic of the gentry. The author shows thelandowner’s name as an essential component of the family language of this social class.