[PLing] INFO: Publ. NEU Helena Krasowska, Magdalena Pokrzyńska & Οlexiy Sukhomlynov: Testimony to a Vanishing Heritage. The Polish Language in Bukovina (= SKEM 20)
Stefan Michael Newerkla
stefan.newerkla at univie.ac.at
Tue Nov 4 14:21:43 CET 2025
Sehr geehrte Listenmitglieder,
ich darf bekanntgeben, dass soebenBand 20 in der von Andrzej Kątny und
mir herausgegebenen Reihe"Sprach- und Kulturkontakte in Europas Mitte.
Studien zur Slawistik und Germanistik
(SKEM)" (https://www.peterlang.com/series/skem) erschienen ist:
Helena Krasowska, Magdalena Pokrzyńska & Οlexiy Sukhomlynov: /Testimony
to a Vanishing Heritage/. /The Polish Language in Bukovina/. Translated
by Maria Fengler and Piotr Styk. Maps by Barbara Grunwald-Hajdasz.
Berlin: Peter Lang Verlag, 2025. 266 pp. ISBN 978-3-631-87961-0 (Print),
eISBN 978-3-631-92968-1 (PDF), eISBN 978-3-631-93573-6 (ePub).*
*
About the book:
the book documents the spoken Polish of oldest Bukovina inhabitants – a
geographical and historical region on the border of Ukraine and Romania.
the spoken Polish in Bukovina is a dying heritage that holds a unique
value for the Polish culture. It constitutes a conglomeration of local
varieties of Polish, whose speakers arrived in waves from remote regions
to an area that never belonged to the Polish state. These dialects then
grew in long-term isolation from other versions of the Polish language
while being surrounded by languages from three other groups: Germanic,
Slavic, and Romance. The book provides numerous examples of the use of
spoken Polish. the method used in the study – language as a guide to the
experienced world – provides an insight into the world of Bukovina
inhabitants, allowing readers to learn about the linguistic phenomena
and sociocultural processes that underlie the everyday functioning of
multilingual and multicultural social communities.
Contents:
Introduction
Review of Research on the Language and Culture of Bukovinian Poles
Aim and Scope of the Book
Methods of the Study
Map of Localities Included in the Study
1. Bukovina: the Region and the People
1.1 A Historical and Cultural Picture of Bukovina
1.2 Demographic Characteristics of the Study Area
1.3 Poles in Bukovina
2. The People and the Language
2.1 Characteristics of the Polish Language in Bukovina
2.1.1 The Dialect of Polish Highlanders in Bukovina
2.1.2 Spoken Bukovinian Polish
2.1.3 Spoken Polish in Vicșani
2.1.4 Spoken Polish in Cacica
2.1.5 Spoken Polish in Bulai
2.1.6 Common Features of Polish in Bukovina
2.1.7 Varieties of Polish in Bukovina
2.2 Changes in the Functions of the Polish Language in Bukovina
2.2.1 Polish in Daily Communication
2.2.2 the Choice of Language and Religion in Mixed Families
2.2.3 Opportunities for Learning Polish
2.2.4 Reading and Writing Skills
2.2.5 Language as Cultural Heritage: Preservation and Loss
3. Language and traditions
3.1 Language as a Guide to the Life and Culture of Bukovinian Poles
3.2 Texts: Annual Feasts and Festivals in Bukovina
3.2.1 Autumn and Winter
Northern Bukovina
Banyliv-Pidhirnyĭ
Chernivtsi
Davydivka-Centre
Nyzhni Petrivtsi
Panka
Sadhora
Stara Krasnoshora
Stara Zhadova
Terebleche
Zastavna
Zelenyĭ Haĭ
Southern Bukovina
Bulai
Cacica
Câmpulung Moldovenesc
Gura Humorului
Păltinoasa
Pleșa
Poiana Micului
Solonețu Nou
Suceava
3.2.2 Spring
Northern Bukovina
Banyliv-Pidhirnyĭ
Chernivtsi
Davydivka-Centre
Kitsman'
Nyzhni Petrivtsi
Panka
Terebleche
Southern Bukovina
Bulai
Cacica
Câmpulung Moldovenesc
Păltinoasa
Pleșa
Poiana Micului
Solonețu Nou
Siret
Suceava
3.2.3 Summer
Northern Bukovina
Chernivtsi
Nyzhni Petrivtsi
Panka
Sadhora
Southern Bukovina
Cacica
Gura Humorului
Pleșa
Solonețu Nou
Suceava
Conclusion
Streszczenie
List of Localities Included in the Study
List of Interviewees
List of interviewees in alphabetical order
Southern Bukovina (total: 168)
Northern Bukovina (total: 190)
List of interviewees by place of residence, gender, and age
Southern Bukovina (total: 168)
Northern Bukovina (total: 190)
List of tables
Bibliography
Internet sources
Index of Names
About the authors:
/Helena Krasowska/ is Full Professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies
of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She studies the disappearing traces
of Polish culture in Ukraine, Romania, and Moldova. Her research
interests focus on national and linguistic minorities, linguistic
biographies, cultural borderlands, social and individual memory.
/Magdalena Pokrzyńska /is an ethnologist and sociologist primarily
focused on identity, social memory, heritage, traditionalism, folk
culture, and borderland. She conducts interdisciplinary field research
in Poland and abroad (Ukraine, Romania), cooperating with researchers
from Germany, Poland, Romania, and Ukraine.
/Olexiy Sukhomlynov/'s main research interests include borderland and
multicultural motifs in Polish literature, along with mechanisms of
myths and stereotypes of collective and historical memory. He also
studies Polish-Russian-Ukrainian relations.
Book orders:
https://www.peterlang.com/document/1524785
The publication is funded by Ministry of Science and Higher Education of
the Republic of Poland as a part of the National Programme for the
Development of the Humanities, project no. NPRH/U21/SP/507307/2021/11.
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