Vershina was founded in 1910 by Polish voluntary settlers. During first two decades the village consisted Polish cultural and language enclave, but as a result of changes caused with communism, repressions and collectivization, ...

The Old Believers who came to the territory of the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania in the 2nd half of the 17th century constitute nowadays a religious, language and cultural minority. However, their socio-cultural ...

The Old Believers are the followers of the Russian Orthodox Church, who did not accept Patriarch Nikon’s reforms in the 17th century. Because of the ensuing persecutions, they were often forced to emigrate. Nowadays, in ...

Praca U. Weinreicha Languages in contact była przełomowa w historii badań dwujęzyczności i do dzisiaj wciąż stanowi źródło odwołań dla wielu autorów. Stworzoną przez niego teorię należałoby określić jako socjologiczną, nie ...

The Polish Old Believers are here considered as a ‘mute group’. There are numerous examples of fields which are passing over in silence in the Old Believers’ contacts with their surroundings. The reasons of most ‘mute ...

Prace dedykowane Profesorowi Stefanowi Grzybowskiemu w 80. rocznicę Jego urodzin to tom zróżnicowany pod względem tematycznym, uwzględniający szerokie zainteresowania badawcze Jubilata m.in. fonetykę i fonologię języka ...

2nd half of the 19th century was the time of origin and development of sociology in many countries. Sociology in Poland and Russia appeared as an independent discipline several decades later than in France, England or ...

One of the possible approaches in dialectology is the microsociolinuistic perspective, basing on the research on small social groups, such as family, small peer- or neighbourhood-groups and even separate idiolects. Focusing ...

SMALL COMMUNITIES AND THEIR „BIG NAMES” Abstract Despite of many existing definitions of cultural identity, most of the sources indicate its several essential elements: language, religion, nationality or ethnicity, traditions, ...

Проживающие в Польше старообрядцы составляют двуязычную общину. Примерно до 20-х гг. ХХ в. многие члены общины были одноязычными или владели польским языком лишь в ограниченной форме. Доминирующей позиции русского говора ...