THE ADVANTAGES AND THE DISADVANTAGES OF USING CABARET TEXTS ON THE POLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE LESSON Cover Image

BLASKI I CIENIE WYKORZYSTYWANIA WSPÓŁCZESNYCH TEKSTÓW KABARETOWYCH NA LEKCJACH JĘZYKA POLSKIEGO JAKO OBCEGO
THE ADVANTAGES AND THE DISADVANTAGES OF USING CABARET TEXTS ON THE POLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE LESSON

Author(s): Beata Grochala
Subject(s): Education, Foreign languages learning, Applied Linguistics, Social history, Western Slavic Languages
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: cultural linguistics; Polish history; cabaret; stereotypes; teaching Polish as a foreign language;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present Polish sketch comedy scenes (skecz kabaretowy) in the perspective of cultural linguistics and foreign language teaching. The author describes difficulties in the analysis of these particular texts of popular culture. Their untranslatability is caused by the use of stereotyping, colloquial language, languages of subcultures, ambiguity, and idioms.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 121-130
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish
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