Journal Article

Czy współcześnie powstający kaszubski język literacki oraz obecnie tworzony język neobretoński mogą stanowić przedmiot dociekań badaczy językowego obrazu świata?

Hanna Popowska-Taborska, Dołowy-Rybińska, Nicole

2015

Overview

The influence of the Polish language in conjunction with education and the mass media have brought about in the second half of the 20th century a growth of Polish-Kashubian bilingualism and a decline of Kashubian dialects. Simultaneously, work on the creation and promotion of the literary Kashubian language has begun. The standard Kashubian language is new to all users as is the new Breton language standardized in the last decades of the 20th century. Intergenerational transmission of the Breton language was severed after WWII. The ethnic revival of the 1970s led to the revalorization of the Breton culture and language, taught since then in a number of schools and at adult courses. Normalized Kashubian and Breton languages are full of neologisms. But at the same time they have also been considerably purified of those traits which make them similar to the respective dominant language (Polish and French). Furthermore, the range of use to which these minority languages are put is very different from one user to another. All these specifics result in the near impossibility of researching the linguistic picture of the world of contemporary normalized minority languages.

• Publisher: Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences (ISS PAS)
• Subject: 20th century / Bilingualism / Breton language / Dialects / French language / Intergenerational relationships / Intergenerational transmission / Kashubian / Language / Language culture relationship / Language dominance / Language history / Languages / Literary language / Mass media / Mass media images / Minority & ethnic groups / Minority languages / Neologisms / Polish language / Slavic languages