Abstract

The article discusses grammatical, semantic and pragmatic linguistic style indicators appearing in the dialogues of Lech Majewski’s film The Knight from 1980. The analysis of the material proved that the film is dominated by means evoking the old, historical Polish language. The author most often reached for inversion, conventional historicisms (referring to the stereotype of the feudal medieval times) and stylistic, as well as the old forms of address. Stylistic strategy used in the film can be defined as historical stylization. Language of the dialogues harmonizes with fairy-poetic narrative convention of The Knight.