Lelewelowska koncepcja kultury języka w Pismach metodologicznych i Listach emigracyjnych wyłożona

Abstract

Joachim Lelewel, who is mainly known as a historian, was in fact a scholar of an extraordinary, even as for the then typically encyclopedic time, range of interests. This article presents a completely unknown aspect of scientific activity of this researcher, who treated national language with profound reverence and outstanding expertise in the mechanisms of its functioning. J. Lelewel intertwined numerous linguistic comments into his historical texts, methodological studies or private letters, simultaneously assessing, or at least mentioning, various linguistic phenomena. This article attempts to trace and reconstruct specific Lelewel’s concept of language culture that includes a wide subject matter: from spelling through phonetics and vocabulary to the style-related issues.