Środki językowe oddające poczucie humoru młodego Bolesława Prusa

Abstract

The author concentrates on the linguistic analysis of the early works of Aleksander Głowacki, that is the texts created between 1873 and 1875, which were initially printed mostly in such magazines as “Mucha,” “Kolce,” and “Kurier Warszawski.” The works represent characteristic, juvenile type of literary output and the sense of humour of the author who was just commencing his literary career. In the first part of the article there are definitions concerning various issues in the field of humorous writing. Then the collected material is analysed in several groups according to particular forms and types of linguistic means in order to amuse the readers: I. Titles of the works and collected works, dedications, epigraphs. II. Golden thoughts, aphorisms, proverbs, catchphrases. III. Periphrastic and hyperbolic structures and comparisons. IV. Meaningful proper names. V. Lexical, phraseological, morphological and semantic neologisms, ambiguous vocabulary, stylized texts.