| Author | Ewa Sikora |
|---|---|
| Title | Z piyknyj miski siy nie najys – the role of love in a highlanders’ marriage |
| Keywords | the sacred and the profane of everyday life, love, ethnolinguistics, linguistic picture of the world, Podhale dialect |
| Pages | 189-204 |
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| Volume | 32 |
The very name of holy matrimony has a religious provenance, however, it also includes the profane – everything that is human and mundane. This article aims to reconstruct the components of the linguistic picture of highlanders’ marriage, as well as the role of love in the decision to start a family. The texts in Podhale dialect were analysed using the methodological assumptions of the linguistic picture of the world. On that basis, marriage was characterised as a social phenomenon, within which people of similar financial positions formed couples. Affectionate relations accompanying the process of falling in love and the sacred in marriage were detrmined by the difficult circumstances. Thus, marriage was not the matter of deep affinity, but a pragmatic decision, in order to provide a decent standard of living for the newly established family unit.