Autorytet i pasja. Profesor Władysław Lubaś i początki katowickiej szkoły socjolingwistycznej

Authority and Passion. Władysław Lubaś and School of Socioliguistics in KatowiceThe article shows the preliminary stage of a research work – pioneering at that time – on the city language as well as of the formation of sociolinguistic methods to describe the contemporary oral Polish; it gives the account of a group of linguists based in Katowice the leading figure of which was Władysław Lubaś – his intellectual passion and undisputed scholarly authority gave rise to the Katowice school of socioliguistics.Key words: Władysław Lubaś, socioliguistics, Katowice school of socioliguistics