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Published: 2011-01-01
No. 22/23 (2011)

Has English replaced Latin (in Poland)? A Few Remarks on Language Issues on the Basis of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Nowele i Opowiadania

Andrzej Wicher

Website: http://anglistyka.uni.lodz.pl/ZDiDLA?prof_dr_hab_andrzej_wicher

Abstract

The aim of the essay is to consider the ramifications of abandoning Latin as the lingua franca of Europe (with primary emphasis on Poland) and embracing English as a new international standard of communication. In Poland the use of foreign languages has always been fraught with political and class implications. At the same time certain foreign languages (e.g. Latin, French) have been used to bestow distinction on the speaker/writer and identify her/him as a superior citizen. In Sienkiewicz’s novellas and short stories, characters resort to various foreign languages to convey their attitudes to particular nations and emphasize their social positions.

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Wicher, A. (2011). Has English replaced Latin (in Poland)? A Few Remarks on Language Issues on the Basis of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Nowele i Opowiadania. Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, (22/23). Retrieved from https://trrest.vot.pl/ojsus/index.php/ERRGO/article/view/2565

ER(R)GO nr 22 (1/2011) / 23 (2/2011) - contexts of english studies

No. 22/23 (2011)
Published: 2011-01-01

ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo
Publisher
University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"
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