Język potoczny w homiliach okresu Wielkiego Postu 2003 wygłoszonych w kościołach szczecińskich

Abstract

In the following work I take, after Teresa Kostkiewiczowa, the fact that colloquial language is the basic tool of direct, spoken communication among the members of national community regardless of their education, job, origin or the place of residence. It comprises mainly so called, colloquial vocabulary which names the most common things and phenomena; exercises phraseology aiming at shortening phrases and operates on metaphors. In some given realizations, the col loquial language may update the jargon and other emotionally-biased tools of expression. The syntax of colloquial language is aimed at shortening the forms. I am taking up the challenge of analyzing traces of colloquial language found in homilies addressing children and teenagers during the Lent period in the churches of Szczecin. The process of analyzing must be accompanied by paying attention to the worth of the word in transferring the Good News. The transferred Enlightened Truth in the ethical aspect seems to be losing on the ground of language dissonance. Dissonance is based on either giving up the role of a preacher of the full truth or the herald of the word. Most of all, each preacher takes up a try to get into greater proximity with the hearer to show him the Enlightened Truth in the simplest way possible. Plainly does not always mean in a solid way and with solemnity as a far as preaching is concerned. Following the right path, the homily preacher tends to be tempted in a twofold way, by self-appraisal and self- subjection. Self-appraisal is based on the fact that the preacher is assured in the question of reaching the stated aim, revealing the truth about God. The other one, however, reduces the Enlightened Truth to slang. The preacher creates neither him nor the hearer but he puts himself into the role of a tool copying colloquially functioning forms of expression.