Linguistic manifestations of colloquial experience in Marek Koterski’s Day of the Wacko

Małgorzata Miławska

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

Abstract

The article aims at discussing the most characteristic linguistic devices thanks to which Marek Koterski performs stylization into the colloquial Polish language in Day of the Wacko (2002). This film is very popular not only with the demanding elite audience but also a statistical Pole because apart from difficult inter-textual references, the film also plays with the language of everyday communication. The film director tells about a subjective, colloquial experience of the world by the main character – Adaś Miauczyński, by means of different experiments. They have been analyzed in this study with the use of methodology developed by both structural linguistics and cognitive linguistics. Thus, among the most essential endeavors used byMarek Koterski, we can list the following: colloquialization and vulgarization, breaking correct syntactic order, introducing word formative peculiarities and inflectional disorders. Exaggeration of mechanisms ruling the colloquial Polish language makes two main characters – Adaś and the Language, decide about Day of the Wacko popularity.

Keywords:

stylization, a poetic function of the language, a colloquial language, a category of colloquialism