Obsolete vocabulary and neologisms in Polish folk tales (on the example of the collection of O. Kolberg's works)

the article author discusses archaisms, historicisms, as well as neologisms used in Polish folk art on the example of a folk tale from the collected works of the famous Polish ethnographer and folklorist of the XIX century O. Kolberg. The research goal is to demonstrate how the interdialectal elements of language create a folklore picture of the world that is close not only to the narrator, but also to the listener. The research objectives are to provide the author's classification of historicisms found in the text of the Polish folk tale, as well as to analyze neologisms that have remained unstudied until now. The research methodology is based on the linguocultural approach and includes such methods as systematization, generalization, lexicographic analysis, critical analysis, comparison, and systematization. In the course of the study, the following results were obtained: historicisms always correspond to the opposition of heroes and the genre of a fairy tale, and outdated vocabulary and neologisms do not just reflect the everyday picture of the world, they help the listener to understand the historical and social context in which the heroes of the work are located.

linguistics, historicisms, archaisms, neologisms, the Polish language