Po naszymu about Passions. The Těšín Dialect of the Czech Republic in the Social Media

Abstract

The article is a contribution to the research on the linguistic situation of the Czech part
of Těšín Silesia (Zaolzie in Polish). Having written on the topic in the past, this time
the authors direct their attention to the Jablunkov part of the region and to a mixed
language: the so-called po naszymu. In the introduction, they reflect on what functions
a dialect can fulfil today, most of which are evident in the authentic linguistic mate-
rial presented which comes from three extensive interviews that have then been pub-
lished online. The speech of the dialect’s speakers differs, revealing the general focus
of the speaker on a particular ethnic language: Polish, Czech or Slovak. The discovery
of these foreign elements is possible due to the phonetic transcription, which reveals
lexical, morphological and phonetic transfers in the texts. The purpose of the analysis
is to point out the differences in the po naszymu mixed language code with a different
rate of Polish, Czech or Slovak elements.