Polska neofilologia w obliczu zmian cywilizacyjnych zachodzących w XXI wieku: Krótki esej historyczno-diagnostyczno-prognostyczny
Polish Neophilology in the Face of Civilizational Changes in the 21st Century: A Short Historical-Diagnostic-Prognostic Essay

Summary/Abstract: The evolution of Polish neophilology is briefly discussed. It is presented hereon the basis of the premise that Polish neophilological studies underwent gradual changes,starting from the orthodox bulk comprising linguistics-lietarature-methods of second/for-eign language teaching (also termed ‘glottodidactics’, after Profesor Ludwik Zabrocki’sseminal contribution to the field), later extended to the fourth component of ‘translatology’.This initial and orthodox four-element system of Polish philology was primarily and main-ly addressed to prospective teachers of foreign languages. Only later, owing to dynamicchanges taking place across the world and in the European community, in particular, didthe orthodox shape of Polish philology start to change, while attempting to accommodatethe diversified needs of a rapidly growing group of recipients of neophilological educationwho were seeking non-teaching communicative competencies. These changes are currentlytaking place in Poland much in accord with what has been taking place in the Europeanforeign language teaching institutions (e.g. European Centre for Modern Languages of theCouncil of Europe, ECML) which have been focusing their attention on the developmentof the communicators’ general communicative fitness in the plurilingual/multilingual andmulticultural contexts.

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