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Świadomość językowa słuchaczy Radia Wrocław
Language awareness of a Radio Wrocław listener

Author(s): Anna Dąbrowska
Subject(s): Media studies, Sociolinguistics, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: language awareness; language counselling; linguistic correctness; Radio Wrocław;

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the questions directed by the listeners of Radio Wrocław to the personsrunning the programme Na końcu języka — On the tip of the tongue (until 2016 entitled Język polski— Polish language). The author, who answers the questions that trouble the listeners, collected themand analysed them. The aim of this paper is to present the questions asked by the listeners of RadioWrocław, grouping them according to the language subsystems and trying to address the question ofmotivation of the individuals asking them. The material is consisted of questions asked over the lastfew years, out of which the most interesting or characteristic ones were selected. The results of theanalysis show that the main difficulty for those asking the questions is morphology and semantics,but rarely syntax. The author presents the probable causes of linguistic problems of the listeners in theconclusions.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 28
  • Page Range: 45-54
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish
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