About the status and scope of the dialect in 18th century Poland (the case of whippletree’s names in stock lists of the nobility from Greater Poland)

http://doi.org/10.26485/RKJ/2017/64/14

Abstract

The paper shows the social status of dialects in the eighteenth-century Polish society. The first part of article contains theoretical attentions: findings of researchers and the opinions of witnesses era. It turns out that social scope of dialects was wider and not limited only to the peasants. The second part is an analysis of the names of whippletree. I used material from stock lists of the nobility from the second half of the eighteenth century from Wielkopolska, showing the presence of distinctive and regional vocabulary.