The electronic corpus of texts and recordings from Poland’s Spisz region : the assumptions of the database and the possibilities of its use as a source of interdisciplinary research

The article presents the corpus of texts and recordings from Poland’s Spisz region as a source of material for the study of culture and history of this historical, geographical and ethnographic land located in the Western Carpathians. The paper deals with electronic database of dialectal transcripts and recordings collected during research within the project The language of the Spisz region inhabitants. The corpus of texts and dialect recordings carried out by The Institute of the Polish Language at the Polish Academy of Sciences. The main aims of the research project is to document spoken language of inhabitants Spisz region and to develop an electronic corpus of dialect texts. Nevertheless rich and various material could be useful not only in language studies, but also in historical, ethnographic and folklore studies. Therefore the article contains the general information about the project such as exploratory research or transcribing texts and examples of informants’ statements.