The analysis of Zofia Kossak’s correspondence to her immediate family (759 letters in Polish from 1939-1968, and selected texts in French) focuses on evidence of the writer's reflection on her own language praxis. The discussion is set against broader reflections on the language of her time, and can be analysed in terms of her linguistic and pragmatic awareness (a supra-intuitive individual linguistic awareness encompassing cognitive, pragmatic and affective aspects). As the corpus is dominated by private themes, the clues under analysis are not numerous. Qualitatively, they concern the code and the communication principles used. The cues are mainly expressed through metalinguistic statements, brackets and the use of quotation marks with certain utterances.
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