Zagadnienia językoznawstwa jako terapia w przypadku przemęczeni
Problems of Linguistics as an Anti-Fatigue Therapy

Summary/Abstract: The present article deals with the role which played Marr and Stalin in Soviet linguistics. Inthe late 1920s and early 1930s, political language came under increasingly strict and unified Partycontrol. The modernist theories of language were replaced by the “new theory developed by Soviet ethnographer and archeologist Nikolai Marr, who argued, in a Marxist evolutionisttradition, that language is part of the superstructure and its transformations follow changesin the social base.Linguistic formulations were evaluated by Party experts, among whom Stalin was the chiefexpert. In 1950 Stalin publicly attacked theoretical schools in Soviet linguistics on the pages of“Pravda” for “vulgar Marxism”. He critiqued Marr’s view of language. He also attacked the viewof language as a tool of production, i.e. as a part of the base, the view that was still dominant in theideological work of the Party organs.

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