Individual features of language in newspaper columns from the „Life of Polish spheres” Henryk Martenka („Angora” 2015)

Abstract

The article presents the individual characteristics of the language (idiolect/idiostyle) of the columns written by Henryk Martenka from “Angora” in 2015. These are among others: humour, irony, colloquial, lexical innovation, original epithets, styling, quotes with argumentative function, rhetorical strategy questions, making understatements. They demonstrate the originality, conceptualization of subsistence of his author, his consciousness and metalinguistic reflection and bring the reader closer to world’s attitudes, opinions and values.