Literaturoznawca? Językoznawca? Niefilolog? O tożsamości dzisiejszego filologa – pytania i wątpliwości
Literary Scholar, Linguist, Non-Philologist? About the Identity of the Modern Philologist – Questions and Doubts

Author(s): Ewelina Woźniak-Wrzesińska
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: philology; Polish studies; modern languages; literary studies; linguistics
Summary/Abstract: In the text, I consider the problem of the status of the Polish philologist. I am interested in issues related to the identity of the philologist (understood as the place where thoughts come from). In the introduction I present the older meanings of the terms philology and philologist. By the way, I reconstruct old assessment practices of philological attitudes. A comparison of different models of recognition of the rank of the philologist encourages further consideration. In the central part of the article, I wonder what the meaning of beinga philologist is today. I ask how (on the basis of what methods and approaches) a philologistis to be recognized. In this way, I distinguish between philological specialities (linguisticand literary) and look at what connects them and what divides them – in particular in theaspect of scientific conduct. It’s obvious that both literature experts and linguists deal with the word, while the way of handling it will be different. It should, therefore, be asked – are we currently referring to the identity or the different identities of the philologist?

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