Rare vocabulary on the example of the thematic field INTERIOR DESIGN – RURAL HOUSE

Abstract

This article presents rare vocabulary, defined in this study as testified by one person, in the speech of inhabitants of the surroundings of Poddębice (Łódź voivodship) on the example of the thematic field INTERIOR DESIGN. The author, using the quantitative method, shows that rare words are found in a substantial portion of the collected material. What follows from the discussion is that over 60% of them are general Polish units. However, in the group of differential lexemes, the majority were dialectal lexemes and ones not found in the selected sources. In the case of units that are not recorded, most of them are differential in terms of word-formation and semantics, while in the case of dialectal units – in terms of lexis. The material was obtained using the questionnaire method in the form of recorded conversations with 44 residents of Poddębice poviat.