W ykorzystanie badań dialektologicznych dla historii mówionej

In this article, the author presents how to gather and utilize dialectological investigations to obtain important historical facts, addressing needs, possibilities, and principles. It is based on the auther's experience of exploration in Podolia and Wolhynia at the turn of the 20th century. Combining dialectological research with recording the tragic history of the Polish population in Ukraine during the Soviet period is quite necessary. An extensive questionnaire indicates the main problems, and within them, more detailed questions concerning the beginning of the Soviet rule, collectivization, life and work conditions, repressions (arrests, torture, deportations, executions), and persecutions of parental faith. Language problems are interspersed in these questions. We tried to record as many long stories as possible. The publication of collected texts appeared unfortunately too diffi cult for understanding by the reading public despite the simplifi cation of phonetic transcription. Therefore, the author proposes a further approach to standard orthography. One foresees the publication of texts and their fragments in a thematic arrangement. Cited fragments demonstrate a contribution to an oral history obtained by our records and at the same time the dialectal language of our informants.