Wędrówka, podróż, migracja w języku i kulturze
Wandering, travelling, migration in language and culture

Contributor(s): Ewa Biłas-Pleszak (Editor), Joanna Przyklenk (Editor), Artur Rejter (Editor), Katarzyna Sujkowska-Sobisz (Editor)
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Sociology, Western Slavic Languages, Eastern Slavic Languages, South Slavic Languages, Culture and social structure , Migration Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: wandering; travelling; migration; language; culture
Summary/Abstract: The nomadic character of contemporary culture (and not exclusively of it) is a fact that cannot be denied. People are wandering through life, but they are also moving in various other forms. Travelling in the geographical, mental and metaphorical sense ... determines the shape of our existence, invariably connected with different forms of movement. The complexity of this problem, its multifold nature and non-obviousness are confirmed by the authors of this monograph, who have chosen different versions of wandering, travelling and migration as the subject of description and interpretation. Not infrequently, which is worth emphasizing - the views are insightful, innovative and original. This approach to the topic of this volume should certainly be considered as its value. The collected texts have been grouped in seven thematic clusters. The first one (“Maps and boundaries”) comprises studies that address, from different perspectives, the issue of mapping of the world, as well as establishing boundaries, which are understood here in very different ways. The second part (“Facets of Wandering”) includes texts relating to wandering, both in a literal, as well as metaphorical or conventional sense. What is an important issue from the point of view of the problems of contemporary times is the issue of (e)migration, which the authors have also explored. This subject is dealt with in the third part named “(E)migrant and (e)migration”. The title concepts of the volume have become the object of scientific reflection as conceptualized in the system of Polish language and its textual realizations - this is reflected in the studies comprised in the fourth part (“Conceptualization of wandering, travelling, migration in a language and text”). The most comprehensive are studies dealing with travelling treated as a topic considered in various epochs, discourses and areas of communication. They have been placed in the fifth element (“Writing (about) travelling”). The presentation of other cultures, lands and languages, as well as emotional states of the authors is an important issue and thus frequently addressed in this volume, as evidenced by the sixth part entitled Conversation of „Absentees - travelling in a dialogue ». The volume has been ended with the element that comprises studies dealing with an issue that is important from the point of view of contemporary humanities, i.e. the wanderings of generic forms as well as the wandering that is taking place within them (“Wandering of species, wandering within the genre”). The book is addressed to Polish philologists, Slavists and humanists in general and to all those who are interested in travelling, wandering and migration.

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