Oralność gwar i ich leksyka

This article discusses the issue of a relationship between oral characteristics of dialects with the functioning of the lexis that is specific to them. A dialect, as a speech of an oral community, functions based on an intergenerational message. This influences the “storage” of a significant portion of the local lexis in the sphere close to passive command. This property determines, to a large extent, the limited resource of lexicographic materials, since a considerable portion of the vocabulary is provided by respondents only after a straightforward intervention of the explorer.