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DIALECT PHRASEOLOGICAL DICTIONARIES OF THE POLISH LANGUAGE: A REVIEW

The article characterizes three lexicographic studies on the Polish dialect phraseology: 1) Maciej Rak’s dictionary describing 600 phraseological units characteristic of the dialect of only one village in the Holy Cross Mountains; 2) Lidia Przymuszała’s dictionary documenting almost 5000 phrases occurring in the Silesian dialects from the late 19th century to modern times; 3) Józef Chojnacki’s dictionary, which collected about 1800 phrases functioning in the language communication of the inhabitants of north-eastern Greater Poland (near Konin). The linguistic material collected in the dictionaries is a dying part of the vocabulary, it concerns the realities of the spiritual and material culture of the villagers that are disappearing into the past, it helps to protect the native part of the folk culture heritage from oblivion.