The Centre for Spoken Polish invites to a master class lecture
The Centre for Spoken Polish invites to a master class by dr hab. Michał Głuszkowski, prof. UMK entitled “Od przełączania kodów do kodu mieszanego. Przypadek bilingwizmu staroobrzędowców w Polsce”. The online lecture will take place on 10.05.2024, at 18.00.
Despite several hundred years of presence in the Polish lands, Old Believers – descendants of Russian religious refugees from the late 17th century. – preserved not only their religion and culture, but also their language, and to this day many members of this group are bilingual. Switching occurs mainly from the less mastered Russian dialect to the better-known Polish language. In similar situations, one possible scenario is the complete abandonment of the minority language (linguistic switching), but it is also possible to transform the weaker language into a mixed code. Such a situation is observed in the bilingualism of Old Believers in north-eastern Poland. It does not affect all members of the community equally. In the presentation, we will look at examples of utterances representing a mixed code (Russian-Polish hybrid system) and discuss the social and individual factors that foster such linguistic behaviour.
The event takes place as part of the “Wykłady w Pracowni Polszczyzny Mówionej” series. The lecture will be held in Polish.
Bio
Michał Głuszkowski, a graduate in sociology (2003) and Russian philology (2005) from the Nicolaus Copernicus University, holds a postdoctoral degree in linguistics (2014), specialising in the problems of language contacts and their extra-linguistic conditions. He conducts interdisciplinary research using theoretical approaches and social science methodology in linguistic analysis, primarily on material collected during field research in minority communities: in Polish communities in various parts of the world (Siberia, Ukraine, the Baltic States, the USA and Turkey) and with Old Believers living in Poland, Estonia and Latvia. She also works on the social and linguistic adaptation of immigrants in Poland, social memory and the history of sociology.
