GATUNKI TESTAMENTOWE JAKO ZWIERCIADŁO KULTUR ROZWAŻANIA POLSKO-AMERYKAŃSKIE
TESTAMENTARY GENRES AS A MIRROR OF CULTURES POLISH-AMERICAN REFLECTIONS
Author(s): Anna Dunin-DudkowskaSubject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Pragmatics, Sociology of Culture, Ontology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: genre; genre pattern; last will; codicil; letter of instructions; trust fund; living trust; living will; organ donor declaration;
Summary/Abstract: The genres of speech are shaped by cultural experiences of a given community and reflect its ontological and axiological interpretations. As the comparison of the testamentary genres in Poland and the US shows, there are distinct collections of genres and genre patterns in both cultures. There are considerable differences in all aspects of genre patterns (structural, pragmatic, cognitive and stylistic). The identity of the genres is determined mainly by their pragmatics – the desire to transfer testator’s property to his heirs. The American testamentary genres strongly highlight individual freedom, praise the importance of resourcefulness and individual success, and provide a more practical approach to implementation of that act.
Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Kształcenie Polonistyczne Cudzoziemców
- Issue Year: 2013
- Issue No: 20
- Page Range: 131-140
- Page Count: 10
- Language: Polish