Od akwawity do Amatora – wódka w polskiej kulturze. Rekonesans badawczy

The article is about vodka that is studied from a philological perspective (cultural, literary, linguistic). The methodology used in the text is a combination of the microhistory and the object-turn. Authors present important issues connected to the culture of producing and consuming this alcoholic beverage (in the past and nowadays) and the forms of its presence in polish literature (i.e. in memoirs, poetry, novels). Significant part of the article is the linguistic research: from the names of specific kinds of vodka and colloquial variants of lexeme vodka to characteristic for the latest Polish language numerous proper names.