Abstract This paper discusses the issue of the influence of personal epistemological tendencies in native speakers of Polish on their perception of non-standard Polish. We argue in favor of taking into consideration the interpersonal differences concerning the way one conceptualizes the reality through the lenses of language as valid factors in of language perception. The essentialist factor in personal epistemology is believed to affect, to a considerable extent subconsciously, one's tolerance to non-standardness and ambiguity, which in turn influences covert and overt attitudes towards not only individual forms, but also entire spoken and written styles. The study described in this paper was devised in order to test and calibrate an experimental design for testing individual language-related epistemological and cognitive tendencies. The subjects are 36 Polish university students with no linguistic training. The study consists of a test designed to assess one’s personal epistemological tendencies representative of essentialist beliefs, and a language perception survey with a focus on non-standard forms in conversational Polish. The tendencies observed in the analysis of the results of the language perception survey and one’s essentialism indicator are discussed in order to propose possible further research.

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个别认识论因素对波兰语母语人士使用非标准语言的态度的影响

摘要本文讨论了波兰人母语人士的个人认识论倾向对他们对非标准波兰语认知的影响问题。我们主张考虑人际间的差异，即通过语言的角度将其概念化为现实的方式是语言感知的有效因素。人们认为，个人认识论中的本质主义因素在相当大的潜意识范围内影响着人们对非标准性和歧义性的容忍度，这反过来又影响了人们对个人形式，整个口头和书面风格的秘密和公开态度。本文描述的研究旨在测试和校准用于测试与语言相关的认识论和认知倾向的实验设计。主题是36名未接受语言培训的波兰大学生。这项研究包括旨在评估一个人的认识论倾向（代表本质主义信念）的测试，以及以波兰语会话中的非标准形式为重点的语言感知调查。为了对可能的进一步研究提出建议，讨论了在对语言知觉调查结果和个人本质指标的分析中观察到的趋势。