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The article presents the most important and the most interesting prose and poetry publications that appeared in 2015. Last year was marked by a dominance of well-known authors (such as Janusz Anderman, Sylwia Chutnik, Michał Witkowski, Łukasz Orbitowski, Andrzej Sosnowski, Krzysztof Varga, Zenon Fajfer, Marta Podgórnik, Tadeusz Pióro, Marcin Świetlicki) and proved that books that consider identity problems can gain positive readers’ response.
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Romantic partners tend to use tender words, which have a special meaning for them. This fact is well-known to the researchers, however, the influence of the sex and the country of origin on the use of tender words in close relationships has not been studied so far. Comparison between groups of 66 Poles and 32 German men and women has been performed. Our goal was to analyze the attitude of the participants towards the use of tender words in close relationship. Our results revealed many differences between the groups, which leads to a supposition that there are differences in the role of tender words in close relationships among different cultures.
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The article presents the results of research into the linguistic and cultural image of a teacher in the Polish society. It begins with a brief discussion of the role of teachers in social and educational systems. Afterwards, it moves on to describing the causes of a crisis of trust in the educational system and the weakening of teacher’s authority. The analyses presented here have been carried out on the basis of opinions posted under an article discussing an open letter addressed to parents and guardians published by the Ministry of Education in the online edition of “The Rzeczpospolita” daily. The resulting image of a teacher was patchy, and the differences in the attitude to the profession stemmed from views on social equality, education, and balanced working time. The opinions often expressed temporary emotions and frustrations of people forming them.
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The present article attempts to review collocations with the somatic component of GŁOWA , included in the contemporary dictionaries selected for usage at schools. Its authoress presents and evaluates the students’ explanations of several idioms with the aforementioned component. The article ends with proposed teaching requirements, pointing to the need for a reliable selection and description of phraseological units in the dictionaries as well as for further work on the understanding of the importance of collocations at school.
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The authoress analyses function words (conjunctions) occurring in the Polish language textbooks for middle schools, taking into account their stylistic mark. As the reference point for her analysis, she has chosen the classification of conjunctions according to the stylistic criteria created by Andrzej Markowski. The article examines examples of conjunctions that appear in the informative reading material and exercises included in the textbooks. It determines the occurrence frequency of neutral, literary, obsolete, colloquial, formal, solemn, and humorous conjunctions, as well as the contexts of use and types of exercises, in which the textbook authors place their connectives.
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The article postulates the need of new studies of texts (which had previously been characterized as "Polish" or "mixed") produced in the fifteenth century in Silesia region, at the same time placing the problem in a European context. The author points out a number of problems posed by such old and difficult to interpret material (their linguistic specificity may have be caused by a bilingual scribe or the language used in medieval Silesia), such as the multilayered structure of the medieval text, the close relationship between Czech and Polish language systems, and difficulties in establishing the relationship between writing and phonetics, etc.
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The object of the article is associated with considerations about the Old Polish lexeme chrapota, which became obsolete over the course of centuries. The introduction provides an account of the theories about the process of the obsolescence of words that were heretofore put forward. The bulk of the article presents the etymology of chrapota and its history in the various periods of the development of the Polish language. The remaining derivatives based on the root chrap‑ and the synonyms of the lexeme were also presented. The summary presents the reasons why chrapota was removed from the lexicon.
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The aim of the article is to present a comprehensive lexicological description of the adjective newralgiczny with special reference to the semantic and pragmatic problems which are associated with it. During the course of the discussion the author inter alia shed light on the question of the most likely etymology of this word (from the Fr. nevralgique, an artificial word-building compound consisting of assimilated Greek formants), determined the presumable period when the word was borrowed by the Polish language and put forward a suggestion to account for the disruption of the analogous change of the affixoid newr‑ (*neur‑) which is a part of this word. Moreover, on the basis of the lexicographical and corpus material the author analysed the catalogue of meanings which the word currently has, suggested a reconstruction of the path of derivation which is responsible for these meanings and presented the relations of the aforementioned word with the analogous lexemes in other European languages.
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The aim of the article is to present the linguistic exponents of the evaluation of people that were excerpted from ten 16th-century translations of the Gospel into Polish. The material base is constituted by the transcriptions of texts which are available on the website of the project entitled “Szesnastowieczne przekłady Ewangelii” (www.ewangelie.uw.edu.pl), which was conducted at the Department of Polish Studies of the University of Warsaw. More than 150 units which were collected in the form of individual lexemes, syntactic derivatives and multiple-segment combinations of words were grouped according to the classification of values established by Jadwiga Puzynina. The author distinguished final values (and within this group moral, transcendental, feeling-related and custom-related values) and instrumental values. The author performed a semantic analysis on the selected units. The focus of research was to study the relation of synonymy and lexical variance.
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The article presents the way the family and its problems are presented in the religious discourse in the 21st century. The religious conferences feature both the traditional family as well as the family which faces the problems of the modern world. The article represents the trend of theolinguistic research.
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The article describes the vocabulary of persuasive force applied in social campaigns. Persuasion is the art of efficient convincing and publicity is supposed to persuade the recipients to take advantage of the offer that is presented to them, to change the way they used to act and to participate in a given charity action. Similarly as in the case of commercial advertising, the social broadcasts employ various words which possess a persuasive force and which influence the feelings and emotions of the recipients of the message more strongly. Such researchers as J. Caples, F.E. Hahn, J. Bralczyk and A. Awdiejew studied the persuasive vocabulary of commercial advertisements. The article indicates which words of persuasive force may be discerned most frequently in social advertisements.
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There is still no scholarly consensus about the origin of the Balto-Slavic intonations. The traditional view is that all long vowels and diphthongs receive the acute in Balto-Slavic, while short vowels and diphthongs are circumflexed. On the other hand, according to the Leiden school, the only source of the Balto-Slavic acute is the glottal stop, which is either a reflex of the PIE laryngeals, or of the following glottalized stops (traditional voiced stops) in syllables that underwent Winter’s law. We believe that the traditional view that PIE lengthened grade vowels receive the acute in Balto-Slavic can no longer be defended. It is contradicted by such examples as PIE *dhughtēr ‘daughter’ > Lith. dukth, PIE *(H)rēk-s-o-m ‘I said’ > Croat. rijêh, PIE *hōwyom ‘egg’ > Croat. jâje. It should also be taken as proved that syllables closed by laryngeals and voiced stops (or glottalics, by Winter’s law) received the acute intonation in Balto-Slavic. However, the fact that the PIE lengthened grade long vowels are circumflex in Balto-Slavic does not prove that all lenghtened grade long vowels in Balto-Slavic are circumflex. In the present paper we attempt to show that a number of Vrddhi formations, that were not inherited from PIE, received the acute in Balto-Slavic. These are the words with reflexes in both Baltic and Slavic languages, derived from PIE roots by means of Vrddhi, which remained a productive pattern of derivation during the period of Balto-Slavic unity, and probably later. Such words have the lengthened grade only in Balto-Slavic, but not in other IE languages, which shows that their Vrddhi is not inherited from PIE. This paper systematically analyzes such material in order to show that the Balto-Slavic Vrddhi formations, in contradistinction to the inherited PIE long vowels, received the acute intonation.
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