Poles and their non-Polish partners: languages, communication and couplehood identity

The article offers an account of a research on language attitudes and language practice of bilingual couples in Poland. The study adopts the-sociology-of-language approach to ascertain metalinguistic awareness among bilingual couples, and to sketch out their individual linguistic experiences. The empirical part features four Poles in partner relationships with foreigners by means of recorded in-depth interviews, to explain how they perceive their own situations and how they function in a monolingual society.