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Les onomatopées, cette forme curieuse de la combinaison des « mots » et du « chant », constituent depuis longtemps un objet de recherche pour les philosophes, linguistes et lexicographes. Nées à différentes époques historiques, elles ont continué à prendre de l’ampleur au cours des deux derniers siècles et sont susceptibles de mettre en relief les aspects les plus importants de ce phénomène qui oscille entre philosophie du langage et linguistique. Dans cet article, composé de deux parties, nous nous intéressons aux théories de la glotto-genèse, créées de l’antiquité à nos jours, qui sont souvent considérées comme parfaitement onomatopéiques. Mais le rôle de l’onomatopée y est-il vraiment aussi capital qu’on le prétend ? Que se cache exactement derrière la notion d’onomatopée ? Cette dernière coïncide-t-elle pleinement avec la notion de l’origine, créée à l’époque antique ? Afin de répondre aux questions formulées ci-dessus, nous avons étudié de nombreux textes appartenant à différentes époques : des auteurs antiques d’abord (Platon, Aristote), puis des philosophes et des écrivains du XVIIe (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz), du XVIIIe (Johann Gottfried Herder, Jean-Jacques Rousseau) et du XIXe (Charles Nodier) siècles, et enfin des auteurs du XXe siècle (Otto Jespersen, Gérard Genette, Henri Meschonnic). Nous avons essayé d’y dépister les traces des théories onomatopéiques de la glotto-genèse et de les présenter à la lumière des recherches linguistiques actuelles.
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In his article, Waldemar Czachur makes an attempt of analysing the Reconciliation Letter of the Polish Bishops to their German Brothers of 1965 in terms of strategies aimed at building balance in international relations. The section which outlines the historical background of the letter and its political significance for Poland and the Polish-German relations is followed by linguistic analysis of subsequent parts of the letter to look at various balancing strategies between appreciating oneself and the recipient and protecting oneself and the recipient in the spirit of Goffman’s ritual equilibrium.
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The article examines job and professional training advertisements published in Krakow in the daily newspaper “Czas” between 1850 and 1890. The analysed material includes both: job offers and announcements of job seekers. In the education section of the newspaper the advertisements are published by schools, enterprises, teachers’ institutions and individuals ready to accept pupils for apprenticeship programs. The analysis covers the persuasive vocabulary (the role of the name of the advertiser, most common adjectives and adverbs evaluating the service), genre of the advertisement (announcement, request, letter, and all sorts of hybrid forms) as well as the grammatical level of the analysed texts (persuasive aspect of compound sentences). The analysis of the material leads to the conclusion that the advertisements published in the “Czas” newspaper between 1850 and 1890 rarely realise the persuasive function only. Their persuasive role was realised through the selection of vocabulary and genre as well as by modifying and combining features of various genres.
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The author Danuta Pluta-Wojciechowska presents certain reflections on the methods of sound elicitation. She offers the linguistic analysis, as well as, the analysis from the point of view of speech therapy of the synthetic method of sound learning providing, at same time, the example of therapy where professionals dealt with case of dental affricative sound. In the following section of the text, the relevance of linguistic knowledge and the theory of speech therapy in the course of planning the providing speech treatment was stressed.
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This article describes polish political discourse on TV. The author considers four parameters of discourse’s general organization. They are: (1) profiling of discourse’s community, (2) generic conventions, which are preponderant on TV and typical in political discourse, (3) primary classes of discourse’s participants, (4) relationship: the discourse world and reality.
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The article studies the problem of genre in the literary works of A. Platonov. The viewpoint on the author’s manner of thinking as “genre busting” that is very popular in Platonov Studies is argued here. The article analyzes the main genres of his creative work: verses, a publicistic and literary-critical article, a story, a short novel, a novel, a play, a script, a fairy tale. The diversity of genres used by the author represents a certain way of self-expression chosen by the author strategically. As it is shown in the article, because of the problems with censorship A. Platonov modified the same ideas trying to introduce them in different genres for the purpose of applying to his readers. In the artistic heritage of A. Platonov it is possible to detect a genre system that allows us to outline the periods of his creative work, according to his genre preferences at a particular point in time. Genre diversity in the presence of a certain range of recurrent ideas confirms the viewpoint of the writer’s works as one text.
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The article presents an analysis of non-scientific histories of the Slavs – most commonly found on the internet and rooted in anti-Slavic (non-scientific Judeo-Christian) conspiracies – from the perspective of historical and cultural psychology. The narratives presented include those of the ancient (Aryan) origins of the Slavs and the erasure from historical memory of a Slavic great power, which are used to support arguments such as amateur linguistic and historical interpretations. The mechanisms for constructing these narratives reflect the ethno-national identity of their creators.
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The linguistic literature (Buhler, Jakobson) mostly mentions six functions of language, paying little attention to the identifying function. Following the assumption that language is not an ‘ordinaty’ element of culture, but is its main basis, we believe that it has more and less stable elements, whose functions are arranged hierarchically.The identifying function has medium stability, is historically variable and becomes particularly important during intensive political changes or (nationalistic) conflicts. An example might be the recent split of Serbo-Croatian into tree languages. The identifying function is always connected with evaluation, which often exaggerates the positive character of a group and its language. Other groups and other languages can be perceived as worse. The identifying function is realized both individually (it can be identified with the expressive function of an individual then) and in a group. In this role it is often used or even abused in modern culture and especially politics. Instead of synonyms and periphrastic expressions we suggest that Polish linguists should make use of the term identifying function of language defined as a nationally or internationally protected function (based on cultural, ideological, or – less frequantly – religious elements) which enables a group of people of common aims, beliefs, ideas and interests to create a community.
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The article aims at helping non-native speakers of English to write death notices, following the requirements of American tradition of the genre. It is based on the theoretical research into the genre, carried out by its author, who analyzed 1076 contemporary New York Times notices, according to Moves and Steps model of genre analysis by J. Swales and V. Bhatia. Having distinguished the death notice from the obituary, the author presents the communicative functions of the genre and its structure, consisting of seven moves, each made up of one to seven steps. Their presentation and brief analysis is accompanied by 100 patterns and templates, which allows intermediate (B1–B2) students of English to create their own texts successfully step by step.
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The article aims to present the biographies of two representatives of literary modernism in Polishand Anglo-American poetry: Tymoteusz Karpowicz and Ezra Pound. Drafting the circumstances in which their lifeworks rose (ie. Słoje zadrzewne and The Pisan Cantos) the author points out the possible concurrences of Polish postwar avant-guarde poetry and high modernism in Anglo-American poetry. Looking at the autobiographical aspect in the chosen fragments of these two works we can notice few important junctions. Słoje zadrzewne and The Pisan Cantos carry a stigma of the last will – they are thought to be a recapitulation of the poets’ output. These volumes of poetry are the examples of unrealized dream about the creation of a modernist “Book”. The literary evolution of two poets is sketched in this text, what inspires to continue the considerations about indirect recurrences between the poetry of Karpowicz and Pound.
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The article presents the history of Polish autobiographical comics, from the turn of the millennia up to the present day. The author points out that Wilhelm Sasnal and his comic book Daily life in Poland in 1999–2001 should be considered the first Polish autobiographical comic book author. Then he draws our attention to the major role of Michał “Śledźu” Śledziński and his magazine “Produkt”, his work is compared to the role of the American underground creator Robert Crumb and his “Zap! Comix”. Next the article tells us more about the work of Agata “Endo” Nowicka (as far as autobiography of women’s comics is considered) and a competition for short autobiographical comic book organized by Nowicka in “Wysokie Obcasy”, as well as comic books of three other authors representing the autobiographical genre: – Agata Wawryniuk, Olga Wrobel and Daniel Chmielewski.
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The title refers to Mark Beylin’s assessment of the position Niki Saint Phalle took in Paris sixties feminist practices the “art of anger”. The author discusses the biographical book Żony w cieniu mistrzów literatury rosyjskiej by Alexandra Popoff, Ferwor. Życie Aliny Szapocznikow by Marek Beylin and Kobro. Skok w przestrzeń by Margaret Czyński.
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The so called emigrantion literature is a topic, which has commanded growing interest within literary studies during the last years. In German-Polish research, we see terms shifting from “migrant literature”, towards more open formulations such as “Polish literature on the move” (Ottmar Ettes, 2001). The article focuses on this very mobility of identities. The article examines autobiographically inspired novels by Krzysztof Niewrzęda, Leszek Oświęcimski and Dariusz Muszer. They immigrated to Germany during the 1980s, which means they have been part of the last migration wave before the 1989 transitions. The article examines, with recourse to intercultural German studies and psychoanalytic insights, archetypical masculinity models in the literature by the above mentioned authors (the victim, the bad boy, the fool, the monk and the saviour).
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The article entitled “Świetlicki speaking” referes to the time when the well-recognized poet, Marcin Świetlicki, repeatedly breaks his declared unwillingness to use the social media. At the turn of 2014 and 2015 he begins to publish “appeals” to his fans. Initially, these texts concern the refusal of nomination to the literary reward Nike, but gradually the scope of the topics expands. Świetlicki, for years considered a politically disengaged poet, begins to speak often and clearly on current issues – not only in his books, but also on Facebook.
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The article is on overview of the newest monograph by Roma Sendyka. In her book Od kultury “ja” do kultury “siebie”. O zwrotnych formach w projektach tożsamościowych the scholar discusses the concept of subjectivity, which happens to be lost in translation, but also significantly distinguishes concepts of I and self. The author of the monograph references research in many fields of humanities and the neurosciences, brings different meanings to evoked terminology, discusses translation proposals and confronts them with literary examples.
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In her case study of two frontier towns – Krzyż (Kreuz) and Żółkiew (Żowkwa, Nesterow) – Anna Wylegała presents a story of resettlement and Polish-Ukrainian or Polisch-German relations in perspective of several generations of respondents. Based on collected narrative interviews, the authoress constructs the models of collective memory, characteristic for selected places. As Wylegała shows, based on the analysis of the research material, memory and non-memory depend on many factors such as politics of memory, economy, pre-war ethnic composition and circumstances of resettlement and journey to “regained territories”. Anna Wylegała, basing on methodology of many humanities subdisciplines and social sciences, analyzes the differences in the adaptation process, constructing narratives of identity, suppression of trauma and closing the experience of resettlement. In the monography Przesiedlenia a pamięć, theories of memory are competently connected with empiricism of biographical method.
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The editorial opens with a firm statement that a single masochism does not exist, which can be proved by theories and works of such psychiatrists and philosophers as Freud, Reik, Lacan or Deleuze. It also presents how the masochism of Bruno Schulz has so far been discussed and interpreted by distinguished Schulzologists and underlines that a new reading of his works as well as testimonies made by the “hidden witnesses” of writer’s life is needed.
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