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Geopolitical Influences and Language Contacts of the Ukrainian Speech Community of the Chelm and Podlachia Regions in the Kingdom of Poland (1815–1912)

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Geopolitical Influences and Language Contacts of the Ukrainian Speech Community of the Chelm and Podlachia Regions in the Kingdom of Poland (1815–1912)This paper explores language contacts, unrecorded in Ukrainian-language texts, which occurred during a period of history when Ukrainian was a minority language. In order to reconstruct language contacts, I applied the theoretical framework of the social history of language. The database was constructed using metalinguistic evidence from secondary sources. The characterization of the macro-level of language contacts from the standpoint of the sociology of language was provided through the inductive method and the method of metalinguistic evidence interpretation. The findings of the article on the variable transition of native speakers from Ukrainian as a colloquial code to oral and written forms of Polish, Russian and (occasionally) to the written form of Ukrainian are relevant for studying language contacts in subsequent periods of the social history of Ukrainian, using the linguistic evidence available from the Ukrainian-language sources.Wplywy geopolityczne i kontakty jezykowe ukrainskiej spolecznosci jezykowej Chelmszczyzny i Podlasia w Królestwie Polskim (w latach 1815–1912)Przedmiotem artykulu sa kontakty jezykowe w nieudokumentowanym tekstami ukrainskojezycznymi okresie historii jezyka ukrainskiego jako jezyka mniejszosci. W celu rekonstrukcji kontaktów jezykowych wykorzystano teoretyczne ramy spolecznej historii jezyka. Baze danych stanowia dowody metalingwistyczne pochodzace ze zródel wtórnych. Opis makropoziomu kontaktów jezykowych z punktu widzenia socjologii jezyka zostal dokonany z zastosowaniem metody indukcyjnej oraz metody interpretacji dowodów metalingwistycznych. Wyniki przeprowadzonych badan, dotyczace zmiennego przechodzenia rodzimych uzytkowników jezyka z jezyka ukrainskiego jako kodu gwarowego na forme ustna i pisemna jezyka polskiego i rosyjskiego oraz (okazjonalnie) na forme pisemna jezyka ukrainskiego, sa wazne z punktu widzenia dalszych studiów nad kontaktami jezykowymi w kolejnych okresach historii spolecznej jezyka ukrainskiego, opartych na dowodach jezykowych, pochodzacych z pierwotnych zródel ukrainskojezycznych.

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