Abstract

The aim of the article is to show how and by what linguistic means did the preachers of the Great Emigration in Paris portray the community of the Polish emigrants after the November Uprising. The analysis of the excerpted material is in line with the methodology of cultural linguistics, which considers the cultural heritage of a community to be the crux of language, which is an expression of social experiences accumulated over many generations, fixed in language and transmitted from generation to generation. The linguistic creation of the emigrant community, growing out of the national community, has become the primary tool of description. The different points of view of the two preachers important for the Great Emigration, representing the same religious congregation and, earlier, participants of the November Uprising, makes it possible to show, on the one hand, how the linguistic manner of description influences the shaping of the vision of the history of the nation, the evaluation of the November Uprising and the concept of regaining independence by Poland, and on the other - more importantly - what attitudes it is supposed to evoke in the Parisian emigrants, who are the recipients of the teachings.