Monographic Part: “Shit Happens” – Speech (parole) as an Open Utility of Culture which Brings about Differentiation in Times and Generations Cover Image

Część monograficzna: „Shit happens” – język (parole) jako otwarte narzędzie kultury różnicujące czasy i pokolenia
Monographic Part: “Shit Happens” – Speech (parole) as an Open Utility of Culture which Brings about Differentiation in Times and Generations

Author(s): Halina Guzy-Steinke
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language studies, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: culture; modernity; habit; language

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary culture is diverse and does not constitute any longer a platform for the integration of a community. There are new cultural patterns, especially observed in everyday life, which are the subject of social exchange. Changing reality necessitates changing habits. Language is the utility of culture the most sensitive to changes, while at the same time fundamental for sustaining or creating new cultural qualities; on the one hand language is connected with tradition, on the other hand it allows the differentiation of the past, present and future. It seems that spoken, colloquial language (parole) that occurs spontaneously in the process of communication in everyday life, primarily among young people, is the mirror of cultural conditions in which we live.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 44 (1)
  • Page Range: 117-130
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish