Deutsche und polnische Sprichwörter auf dem Segelschiff „STS Fryderyk Chopin“. Ergebnisse der sprachwissenschaftlichen Erforschungen
German and Polish proverbs on the Tall Ship “STS Fryderyk Chopin”. Results of a Linguistic Research

Summary/Abstract: Two years ago, I represented the University of Szczecin on board the sailing ship “STS Fryderyk Chopin” joining the ranks of the teachers there after a successful recruitment process. I started my journey on February 1, 2022 from Martinique, and after almost two months of sailing around the islands of Central America, I arrived in Jamaica. It was a very demanding venture. On board the sailing ship, I combined teaching work (giving lessons, grading, checking tests) with research work, all under completely new and often difficult conditions. I became acquainted with the language used by the ship‘s crew, and together with the students of the “Blue School” (Pol. “Niebieska Szkoła”) I collected and compiled research material. The paper presents the results of linguistic proverbs research initiated on the tall ship “STS Fryderyk Chopin”. In the course of German language classes on the board the brig I collected, together with a group of Polish students, aged 15 to 19, German and Polish proverbs with elements of maritime language and compared them with their Polish or German counterparts, respectively. On the basis of the comparison of phraseological units in the two languages, equivalence relations were established. The numbers of equivalents was analyzed, as well as lexical and/or structural differences between the proverbs and their counterparts in the target languages.

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