Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego

Rymkiewicz. Annotations

Rymkiewicz. Dopowiedzenia

Author(s): Dominik Chwolik / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Rymkiewicz; Polishness; Milanówek; Jarosław Kaczyński

In the book, the author focuses on conspicuous romantic traces in the works by Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, the traditions of which may still create an image of Polishness. Despite references to well-known writings of the poet from Milanówek — “To Jaroslaw Kaczynski”, “Blood” or the so-called Polish tetralogy, the main issue of this work concerns the shrouded in mystery history of the dead, and hence the concept of necrography (the second life of the corpse). Therefore, among the protagonists of Rymkiewicz there are Lazarus, the Primate Michał Poniatowski, Samuel Zborowski, and finally the poet himself. The book constitutes the author’s commentary, sort of annotation to the artistic output of the writer, which has been subject to continuous commentaries.

The Importance of Singing as a Personal Value in Children’s Development. Vol. 1: The Constants and Changes in the Development of Theoretical Thought at the Turn of the 20th Century

Śpiew jako wartość osobowa dziecka. T. 1: Stałość i zmienność rozwoju myśli naukowej przełomu XX i XXI wieku

Author(s): Jadwiga Uchyła-Zroski / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: importance of singing; personal value; children; constants; changes; development of theoretical thought; 20th century

The publication constitutes a pedagogical monograph which consists of two parts comprised of eight chapters. The first, theoretical part consists of three chapters, while the remaining five comprise a comprehensive empirical study, including methodology, research findings, in-depth analysis of those findings, and conclusions. The monograph is devoted to the analysis of singing and voice training in children from the perspective of personal values. In the first part of the monograph, the author refers to older research concerned with the development of voice in children, using lesser-known sources in Polish as well as other languages. Thus, the monograph addresses the issue also from the historical angle, allowing for broad analysis of the theoretical background for the subsequent empirical research. The theories cited in the monograph have been subject to thorough evaluation and comparative analysis. The monograph addresses both the constants and the changes in the theoretical approach to the issue, paying particular attention to the notions concerning development and voice training in children; assessment of the new—heuristic—method of vocal training; appropriate training for students preparing them for taking on the role of the teacher with regard to values and making value judgments; the role of fine arts universities in shaping creative attitudes in students. The theoretical part also includes the results of diagnostic and comparative studies of children and students, elaborated upon in the second part of the monograph. The proposed method, founded upon the principle of the creative process, is most effective when applied to elementary school students (class I—III); nonetheless, some of its elements can be utilised by parents and legal guardians in the home environment, and by teachers during music as well as music and movement classes in kindergartens, schools, and in therapy work with disabled children. This method as well as its didactic and educational benefits should be taught to students specialising in musical education, integrated teaching, preschool education, as well as to teachers working with special needs classes and counselors working with disabled children.

Tropes of secularization in the prose of the interwar period

Tropy sekularyzacji w prozie dwudziestolecia międzywojennego

Author(s): Ryszard Knapek / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: interwar period; prose; novel; secularization; religion; modernity

The main aim of this work is to examine the usefulness of the notion of secularization (understood both as a theory and ideology) for the reading of the Polish prose from the interwar period. Secularization is one of the fundamental categories of modernity, still an important issue in the study of literaturę, and yet, it has not been broadly applied in native literary studies so far. The context for the following discussion is the post-secular thought in its various aspects. This work consists of three chapters which constitute a whole, but can also be read as separate dissertations. Chapter one is fundamentally theoretical, with theory being immediately backed up (as a starting point and as examples) by interpretations of literary texts. Its aim is the reconstruction of the “secular theory of the novel”. Researchers such as Northrop Frye and Ian Watt demonstrate how secularization processes influenced the rise and development of the genre. In “The Rise of the Novel”, Watt puts forward a thesis that an essential determinant of the novel, a genre that originated in the 18th century, is locating justifications for the world portrayed as well as for the characters’ psychology solely in the “earthly” matters, regardless of the author’s personal convictions. An original conception is proposed by James Wood who argues that the novel transforms the modern conception of faith introducing the notion of fiction, which blasts out the religious tradition of strong faith from the inside. Chapter two is entirely devoted to a few novels classified as novels of formation (“Bildungsroman”) and set in Galicia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the plot of which is centered around school. The basis for analysis are the categories and phenomena (reading, school as an institution and studying) which allow us to follow through the changes of consciousness being the main theme of the analyzed novels. The research method in this chapter is a deepened interpretation of excerpts of the novels and the intertextual reading of literaturę through literaturę. From the analyses conducted in this way emerges a surprisingly cohesive, although diverse in details, story of the changes of adolescent consciousness against the background of the conservative community. Chapter three is a collection of various interpretations of texts, each of which is based on different categories, conceptions or languages. Together, they show a multifaceted picture of how the prose of the interwar period reflects, comments on and inspires the religious transformations of the contemporary man and society. The focus of interpretation are the four texts: Witold Gombrowicz’s “Ferdydurke”, Aleksander Wat’s “Bezrobotny Lucyfer”, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s “Pożegnanie jesieni” and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s “Pasje błędomirskie”.

The education systems of people who are moderately, considerably and profoundly intellectually disabled (on the basis of the solutions implemented in England, the Czech Republic and in Poland)

Systemy edukacji osób umiarkowanie i znacznie oraz głęboko niepełnosprawnych intelektualnie (na przykładzie rozwiązań w Anglii, Republice Czeskiej i Polsce)

Author(s): Magdalena Bełza / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: special needs comparative studies; special needs education in Poland, England and the Czech Republic; intellectual disability; therapy

The present book represent a part of publications dealing with comparative pedagogy. It familiarises the reader with the research of the education systems of students with moderate, considerable and profound intellectual disability which are implemented in England, the Czech Republic in comparison with the native context. This enables us to classify the publication within the field of special needs comparative studies. Nowadays the instruction provided to this group of students experiences a period of dynamic changes which are described by the author with reference to the historical, social, cultural, economic and religious contexts. The path which enabled the development of solutions which today are functional in the countries under research – both convergent and divergent ones – is presented. The analysis of the systems itself in the perspective of theory and legislation was enhanced by research conducted among the staff working in institutions whose purpose is to provide instruction to intellectually disabled students (teachers, therapists, directors), which facilitates to a certain extent a verification of the theoretical image with the image of this type of education perceived by the people who are involved in it in practice. All of these themes are discussed in twelve chapters which correspond with the structure of comparative research – the chapters contain a description, interpretation and juxtaposition, and they treat questions such as: the essence of intellectual disability, the structure of the system of education, the forms and the types of institutions, support, theoretical bases, the legal functioning of the systems of education, the historical, economic, social, cultural and religious conditions. An element which is particularly interesting and which may attract the attention of the reader is the quasi-model of the education of moderately, considerably and profoundly intellectually disabled students that is suggested by the reader in the final chapter. Due to the fact that the publication combines strictly scholarly considerations with practical solutions which function in the countries under research, its recipients may include both scholars, pedagogues, sociologists, students and practicians who work in the field of special needs education.

Pascal’s Wager: Argumentation and Functioning

Zakład Pascala – argumentacja i działanie

Author(s): Marek Wójtowicz / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Pascal’s Wager; evidence for the existence of God; Faith in God; theory of probability; decision under uncertainty

The central topic of the following monograph is, as the title itself might indicate, Pascal’s Wager. This argument, proposed in his “Pensees” (“Thoughts”), constitutes one of the most profound ideas of the French philosopher. It is, however, heavily contested and discussed up until this day. The contemporary reflection on the Wager touches upon not only the conventional philosophical and theological dimensions, but also the rarely noticed mathematical or decision-making aspects. The monograph presents a comprehensive background for Pascal’s argument, foregrounding it in the context of Pascal’s biography as well as his anthropological and religious views. Moreover, the monograph touches upon the most significant – usually extremely critical – comments on the Wager which have been formulated over the last 350 years. Research presented in the monograph focuses upon the contents of the 451st passage of “Pensees”. In this study, the “canonical” version of the Wager – usually considered to be the most faithful to Pascal’s intent by his commentators – becomes the subject of detailed and critical analysis. The discussion concerns the particular claims comprising Pascal’s argumentation, which are of varied and diverse character. The strictly philosophical inquiries are connected with philosophy of religion (particularly with the analysis of the stance advocating the lack of possibility of solving the problem of God’s existence or nonexistence) as well as ethics (numerous objections to the Wager are ethical in nature), while the theological inquiries focus on the possible outcomes of wagering whether or not God exists as well as the issue of faith. Moreover, a considerable part of the monograph is devoted to research concerning the mathematical, probabilistic side of Pascal’s argument as well as decision-making in uncertain conditions. The characteristic feature of the interpretation of Pascal’s Wager presented in the monograph is the focus on the last, usually completely disregarded, part of the argument. It discusses actions that – according to Pascal – should be undertaken by a person convinced of the validity of the assumption that God exists. This addendum significantly affects the totality of Pascal’s concept. This new interpretation of the Wager is analysed according to the validity of reasoning as well as the philosophical consequences. The later parts of the monograph discuss the extent of impact of Pascal’s argument, both in relation to philosophy and religion and outside of that relation. That impact remains incredibly varied. There have been numerous attempts at both undermining the Wager once and for all as well as perfecting its original argument in order to successfully refute the objections raised against it both in the past and nowadays. Moreover, numerous concepts openly draw from the argument proposed in “Pensees” in order to resolve various problems concerning decision-making with regard to bioethics, ecology, medicine, and psychotherapy.

Apparent identity. Polish traditionalisms with semantic archaisms

Pozorna tożsamość. Polskie tradycjonalizmy z semantycznym archaizmem

Author(s): Agnieszka Piela / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Polish traditionalisms; semantic archaisms; modern Polish; design verbal

The fundamental purpose of this dissertation is a description of chosen modern word constructions that include semantic archaism. In the limelight are phrasemes, proverbs, compositions and notions which can be called specific language units. Lexical component – archaism or its meaning decides about its specific character. Word constructions elaborated here do not carry the explicit traces of archaic nature. They appear to be modern, identical and nondescript. It approves that the traces of historical presence in modern Polish language are not easily detected, sometimes they may be unnoticed, hidden or even unconscious. For the purpose of this paper, such constructions are named traditionalisms (in opposition to constructions without historic language forms in its composition). The description of preserved to present day semantic units serves as a stimulus for wider thinking about “strength” and “resistance” of former word meanings, types of meaning shades recorded in compositions, reasons for the durability of phrasemes that contain an archaic element and the lack of stabilization of others or reinterpretation processes. The fact that such words kept their ancient meanings in word constructions does not necessarily imply that their meanings are permanent and unforgettable. It may happen that word constructions with a historic language element are now understood differently because of the up-to-date interpretation based on the present meaning of the notion, or may sometimes undergo semantic or even formal modifications. In this paper I connect the diachronic description with the synchronic one. The historical perspective, that allows to reach former, original sense of words, gives also the possibility to observe changes that emerged in the referred phrasemes over the centuries. In contrast, the synchronic perspective, in general, allows to capture linguistic facts that coexisted in a particular period. Herein, I discuss separately each word construction with semantic archaism and show its history in Polish language. The method chosen to present the research is a result of difficulties in segregation of the material into bigger semantic groups, categories or word-formative types. It relates to the fact that the stabilization of multi-faceted linguistic units does not depend on the particular types of meaning shades in compositions or their structure, or affiliation to some parts of speech, but that constructions in which given word appears are still needed and nowadays used by Polish speakers. Above all, in this thesis I concentrate on Polish phrasemes with semantic archaisms that abide with the passage of time. Furthermore, I write about the word units which have a recessive character as well as recall extinct word constructions. The methodical observation of the exemplification material leads to the conclusion that word constructions are changeable at each progress stage. It can be clearly seen while looking at the problem from a wider time perspective. Therefore, it is hard to foresee the future of semantic traditionalisms in Polish language and the determine units that will stand the test of time.

New ways to face and (im)politeness

New ways to face and (im)politeness

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Keywords: sociolinguistics; intercultural communication; politeness; impoliteness; the concept of face

To read into the Holocaust. Post-memory practices in the Polish children’s and adolescent literature of the 21st century

W(y)czytać Zagładę. Praktyki postpamięci w polskiej literaturze XXI wieku dla dzieci i młodzieży

Author(s): Małgorzata Wójcik-Dudek / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Holocaust; post-memory; Polish literature; children’s and adolescent literature; literature of 21st century

The book addresses the issue of the Holocaust in the most recent Polish literature for children and adolescents. In order to present the main issues concerning post-memory, the author situates the literature for the young readers in different contexts, starting from historical, through ideological to cultural. Although primarily concerned with the 21st century literature, in Jan Brzechwa’s “Akademia pana Kleksa”, published shortly after the war, the researcher sees a specific founding myth of the narration about the Holocaust. In chapter two, she argues that the author of Pan Kleks’ adventures created a monumental story of the decline of the old world and the attempts at its reconstruction. Drawing from the Kaballah, the author tries to place Brzechwa’s trilogy within the midrashic story about the loss of the Temple and efforts to restore the lost order. The next chapter is devoted to the figure of Janusz Korczak. The author analyses the publications about the pedagogue issued on the occasion of the Korczak Year. It turns out that the hero is revealed through micro-stories, in which he is in his element. These are fragments of biographic stories, Korczak’s own statements, recollections of those in his care and memories of his friends. They require extremely careful reading on the part of a biographer and a reader. The pedagogue’s profile defies classification, and he himself seems to be a tactician continuously changing methods to firstly, serve the children, and secondly, save them from the Nazis. Chapter three concerns the form of story about the Holocaust. While, in chapter two, referring to Pan Kleks’ adventures, the author points out the exhaustion of the traditional genre of fairy tale, in this part of the book she argues that the story of the Holocaust does not fit within the frames of narration so far used in children’s and adolescent literature. Therefore, it can be acknowledged that the new forms of narration about the Holocaust, including a fairy tale, a diary, and a picturebook, provide, on the one hand, a way of coping with the impossibility of describing the Holocaust, and, on the other hand, prove the powerlessness to fully describe it. The next chapters reflect on the Holocaust toposes. The researcher argues that toposes deriving from a non-adjectival literature are present in texts addressed to children and adolescents. The toposes explored particularly intensely include those of a mother, Jewish and non-Jewish child, hunger, the space of a ghetto, wall, the Aryan side, hideaway, play and book. Seeing in these pictures the borrowings from the adult literature, the author makes an attempt at their description. She arrives at the conclusion that the experiences characteristic of children boil down to affective memory, which in turn, becomes a source of recollections. Presenting the collected material, the researcher argues that the kind of practice of post-memory started in the 21st century literature for children and adolescents does not paralyse the young reader, but gives them a chance to experience an encounter with the Other.

To Raise a Truthful Persons. Conceptions, Research Studies, Implementation

Wychować człowieka prawdomównego. Koncepcje, badania naukowe, wdrożenia

Author(s): Alicja Żywczok / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: truthfulness; truth; educational process; moral virtue; character trait; moral value; epistemic value

Common among contemporary Europeans is the belief that “everyone has a right for his or her own truth” or to express their, often very subjective, version of the truth. The classic idea of truth is not particularly popular while various kinds of untruth are treated exceptionally leniently. Copywriters avail themselves of numerous means of persuasion and gain consumers by means of truth manipulation: the truth is shown as untruth or it is concealed or distorted. Not only does their free use of manipulation go unpunished, on the contrary, it is counted among their professional successes. The same applies to the sphere of politics where the problem of separating the truth from the objective reality using sophisticated manipulation seems most acute. In today’s social life, which abounds in examples of shady business, people are increasingly more often offered vague explanations or establish complicated relationships in which it is not uncommon to come across a garbled version of the truth. The escalation of lie over the last decade among various social circles, from the family and the school to the entire country to the continent or even the whole world, causes in a certain group of people a definite dislike towards untruth resulting from cunningness, egotism or particularism. Such people continue to try and attain the truth and manage to discover it with satisfaction. The desire for veracity is all the more justified in such a situation. Such an attitude, coupled with other personal traits, paves the way to leading a good life. The reasons I chose this particular subject matter for my research are both the threats to the truth listed above as well as my rejection of untruth in the public life, the desire to protect children and the youth against liberal decrease of sensitivity to the lie, insufficient love of the truth and underappreciation of veracity. In the world of today, despite the fact that pretended values and phenomena are being treated with more and more appreciation, mere appearances or mystification are being openly adored, the veracity standard that results from the desire for authenticity and honesty remains active in the human self-consciousness. In my research, whose results eventually materialized in the form of this monograph, I followed the desire to preserve for posterity the world in which one seeks the truth in order to feel the cognitive satisfaction, the world in which one undertakes wise and effective actions, intending to avoid the tragic outcome of defeat caused by being led astray in his or her pursuit of knowledge or being exposed to collective illusion; something goes wrong, appearances, falsehood and the stereotype win the day. It is worthwhile at this point to explain to the readers why this monograph was written at all. My purpose was not to review or sort out all the research projects (theories, concepts or views) in the subject matter at hand but rather to focus on the upbringing effects of the research material and how it raises the level of social awareness, to thoroughly discuss the phenomenon of the truth and veracity and to work out my own pedagogical standpoint. As far as I am concerned, each generation should ponder the necessity of respecting such a value as truth, enhancing it with new individual components, typical of a given historical or civilization period. The main research problem is: In what way in the process of upbringing should one shape veracity in the youth? The aim of my research was to learn what the youth think about the truth and veracity, how they understand the truth, what their relation to such a value as truth is, what kinds of veracity and non-veracity they are familiar with, and what they know about: communication situations conducive and not conducive to telling the truth, the circumstances requiring unconditionally that the truth be told, the feelings accompanying the lie and revealing of the truth, other features of character of a truthful individual, methods of upbringing toward veracity within the family, school and the peer circle, participation of the parents, teachers, classmates, friends in the process of shaping the foundations of veracity; authorities of veracity, valuation of the behavior of truthful and mendacious people, the necessary deviation from the principle of veracity, the reasons and effects of non-veracity; the difficulties in adhering to the norm of veracity in the contemporary world, the significance that is ascribed to veracity in the sphere of individual development and social functioning. It seemed important to seek the answer not only to the main research question but also to many detailed problems, especially: what values opposite to the truth and veracity are the young people above the age of 12 exposed today and what variants of non-veracity do they most often interiorize? By means of what principles, methods, forms or message do the parents and the teachers bring up truthful people? Does mutual veracity improve communication (upbringing dialogue) between the teacher and the student? Apart from the cognitive purposes, in my opinion, there were also other important aims in my research, including: utilitarian aims (connected with the raising of the level of awareness concerning the cognitive and moral function values in the collective life) and upbringing aims (the shaping of moral habits, such as telling the truth; promoting the principle of veracity in the upbringing relations within the framework of, e.g. axiological education). Promoting such issues may prove to be of inspirational value for the representatives of many research circles including philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, teachers interested in epistemology, theoretical and applied ethics or the theory of moral upbringing and praxeology. The 2014—2015 study group consisted of high school students (2nd and 3rd graders) from the following Silesian cities: Katowice, Gliwice, Bytom and Tarnowskie Góry (320 subjects aged 17—18). In the first chapter of the monograph I specified the term of veracity and identified the constitutive properties making up the nature of this psychic disposition. Simultaneously I referred to the classic aspects of axiology (kind of truth and veracity) and the theory of cognition (the way the truth and veracity exist, epistemological and ontological concepts). Placing the problem within the research scope of pedagogics (and its numerous sub-disciplines) and related disciplines (especially anthropology, psychology, philosophy, sociology, history) made it possible to focus the analysis on the problem of science studies and the modern professiology — the shaping of veracity in science practitioners and researchers. I offered the thesis that both the individual research development and the progress of science understood as a cultural quality occur by means of such a personality trait of a researcher as veracity. In the second chapter I justified the individual and social significance of veracity indicating that it constitutes a moral norm used in building trust, and allowing the society to survive and integrate. In view of the fact that the attitude towards the truth is also an important gauge of humanity, I explained the relationship between veracity and other ideal values such as: love, respect, courage, justice, fidelity, responsibility, peace, freedom, honesty, beauty, and the related character traits. I argued the views of the representatives of the pragmatic concept of the truth, without omitting to discus the numerous functions of the truth and veracity. The analysis and interpretation of the results of the studies made it possible to present extensive argumentation of the examined youth supporting veracity and opposing the lie. I laid emphasis on the significance of veracity in strengthening the stability of the relationship between classmates, friends, spouses and for the building of the familial cohesiveness. The third chapter invites the reader to analyze the contemporary methods for discredication of the truth and for questioning the model of veracity. Consumerism and utilitarianism have been shown as phenomena jeopardizing the moral culture of “post-modern” societies responsible for the fate of veracity — will it survive or will it ultimately be neglected. I identified, on the basis of various criteria, many variants of non-veracity, such as: presupposition, allusion, implicature and insinuation. I did not ignore here the analysis of the necessary deviations from the principle of veracity. I assumed a negative attitude towards the students’ strategy of avoiding telling the truth to the teacher, putting it down first of all to the lack of mutual trust. Among common distortions of veracity and drawbacks of collective life, in my opinion, are also slander, libel, defamation, gossip, rumor, machiavelism, cherishing prejudice and following stereotypes, characterized in detail in the chapter. Among controversial instances of truth denial are, as far as I am concerned, utopism and cultivation of myths and illusory conceptions (illusions). I indicated the importance of shaping in the young generation the proper beliefs strengthening the desire to achieve the truth and helping to reveal illusions that often make one less active in life. In the fourth chapter I did not limit myself to describing the causes for non-veracity but made an attempt at fathoming the reasons for veracity. With this in mind I discussed the extrinsic (e.g. social, cultural, political, educational, situational, religious) and endogenous (e.g. habits) determinants of veracity. In order to present a wide array of etiological concepts, in which the problem of lie is addressed not perfunctorily or marginally, but in a reliable way, both psychologically and pedagogically, I used the upbringing propositions of several renowned pedagogists (Ellen Key, Alexander S. Neilla, Janusz Korczak) of European descent and Rabindranath Tagory, a promoter of an Asiatic concept of upbringing. I hope that associating the cultural output with modernity, i.e. the outcome of my own studies, which may be metaphorically termed “the voice of the contemporary Polish youth”, will produce the expected effect in the form of proper attitude toward the lie and a response consisting in adopting wise solutions to complex pedagogical problems. In the fifth chapter I discuss the theory of upbringing, applied ethics and pedagogical praxeology, all related to the understanding of veracity as a component of the ideal of upbringing, the principle of upbringing, the aim of the dialogue between the educator and his or her students, teacher’s or pedagogist’s tasks, responsibility towards the truth, obligations towards oneself and the others. The sub-chapter on identifying truth and veracity in upbringing relations and situations and the effective prevention of the problem of mendacity constitutes a certain kind of pedagogical prompt. I showed the internal struggle of a human being, related to opting for the truth and rejecting its opposites; I also stressed the regulatory function of the emotional sphere in the process of making correct moral decisions. Also shown in this chapter is the significance of shaping the most neglected sphere of the human development, the volitional sphere (including a number of related features, such as: perseverance, consequence, endurance, psychic resistance, regularity, conscientiousness, diligence, reliability, honesty) in the process of maintaining the attitude of veracity and counteracting the lie. In the last sub-chapter I supplied a number of hints for the parents and teachers on how (not only by means of sanctions) one can bring up a truthful person; what upbringing methods, forms, means and contents may prove helpful in achieving this aim. The annex consists of excerpts taken out from essays produced by the examined high school students on the topic of: “The Significance of Truth in My Life — Childhood, Youth, Adulthood”. This final part of the monograph complements the presented theoretical concepts and interpretations of the research results; from the practical point of view, it will also prove invaluable in inspiring parents, teachers, educators, pedagogists, care-providers, curators, animators, moderators, family assistants or therapeutists to undertake selfreflection and to discuss and use the presented concepts in work with young people (e.g. in axiological education, including exercising personal maturity, ethical efficiency and interpersonal skills) during the educational, ethics, religion or other lessons using activating methods or during after-school classes. The complexity of modern social life and the stress that the economic factors exert on humanistic standards causes one to rightfully worry about the fate of societies and the individual; they may be led astray by political, philosophical, psychological, sociological and other theories, which strain the axiological sensitivity of the human being, leading it to the cultural and moral wilderness. A teacher working with the young generation should make sure that their students do not compensate their creative intelligence with cunningness or being smart; he or she should also prevent them from replacing an awkward or unesthetic truth with a convenient lie. I thereby take a great pleasure in dedicating this monograph to all the professionals bringing up children according to the best tradition of veracity.

Translation in Culture. Vol. I

Translation in Culture. Vol. I

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Keywords: artistic translation; series of translations; reception; culture; Hoffman; Shaw; Merwin; Graham; Kay; Fforde; “The Thousand and One Nights”; Bible; Psalter

The state and contemporary changes of the glacial systems in southern Spitsbergen in the light of the radar methods

Stan i współczesne zmiany systemów lodowcowych południowego Spitsbergenu w świetle badań metodami radarowymi

Author(s): Mariusz Grabiec / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Glaciers; glaciology; Spitsbergen

The book presents the interactions that take place in the glacial systems and defines the mechanisms that control these processes. The purpose of this book is to investigate how glacial systems react to changing climate.The conducted analysis applied a set of field studies from 2007—2014 carried out in southern Spitsbergen between van Keulenfjorden fiords in the North and Hornsund in the South. The widely applied radar sounding is an effective research method in the glaciated areas thanks to its noninvasiveness, mobility, wide depth range of the survey area constituting the glacial system, as well as simplicity in distinguishing the structures within the glacier due to their contrastive dielectric properties. The analysis focused on the processes undergoing in particular components of the glacial system (i.e., snow cover, firn, the interior of the glacier in various hydrothermal states, water drainage system) that constitute a complex interacting with the natural surroundings and is thus conducive to the formation of a glaciosystem.The research shows the glacial systems of Svalbard as responding gradually to the relatively fast environmental changes. Hence the view of the glaciers as indicators of such changes needs to be regarded with caution and due consideration of their delayed response time under a given climate scenario and the potential process that might continue even after the factor that caused the changes has already ceased.The book is addressed to all the individuals who study glacial processes and the reaction of glacial complexes in the Arctic to the environmental changes, and to experts who use geophysical surveys, predominantly radar systems in the glaciated areas. It will also be of interest to aficionados of Earth’s frigid zones.

Brief notes on antiquity (A man and his relation with nature)

Szkice o antyku. T. 6: Człowiek w relacji z naturą

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Polish,Italian

Keywords: Hunting; Luxorious; Calpurnius; Nemesianus; Arrian;Plato;

The post-conference volume presents works in the field of ancient hunting. The texts published in it contain information on hunting ethics and references to animal studies. The majority of chapters deal with hunting in antiquity. The texts of Plato, Nemezjan, Arrian or Luxorious were used for the analysis. There are also references to the literature of later centuries: ”Dziady” written by Adam Mickiewicz or translations of Latin hunting treatises prepared by Bruno Kiciński. Preserved time chronology allows to follow the scope of changes which took place in hunting methods and an overall assessment of hunting over the centuries.

Historical Tourism. Vol. 2

Turystyka historyczna. T. 2

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: historical tourism; the history of travel and tourism; pilgrimages; new trends in tourism

The next, second volume of "Historical Tourism", a multi-author monograph, created on the initiative of employees of the Institute of History of the University of Silesia in Katowice, contains 14 texts on the history of travel and tourism, the history of pilgrimages, contemporary routes of learning about the history of Poland and Europe, the use and importance of new technologies, trends and objects in the promotion of history and tourism. The publication is intended for students, graduates and lecturers of the humanities, employees of cultural and educational institutions, as well as professionals and amateurs involved in the tourism industry and the popularization of historical knowledge.

English-Polish dictionary of IA, UX, UI & SEO

Angielsko-polski słownik IA, UX, UI & SEO

Author(s): Anna Matysek,Jacek Tomaszczyk / Language(s): English,Polish

Keywords: information architecture; usability testing; user interface; user experience;search engine optimization;

The English-Polish dictionary of IA, UX, UI & SEO is the first and only compilation of the terms related to information architecture, user experience, user interfaces, usability, and website optimization. Such a large and structured set of vocabulary in this industry can not be found even in world terminology resources.The authors have collected a set of about 4800 terms and expressions, to which they have assigned Polish equivalents, and often also explanations, supplementary information and cross references. All the entries are provided with the International Phonetic Alphabet transcription of the English terms.The dictionary is primarily addressed to information architecture students. It should also be of interest to website designers, and digital product and service developers.

Między książką a literaturą. Księga jubileuszowa dedykowana Profesor dr hab. Teresie Wilkoń z okazji 45-lecia pracy naukowej i dydaktycznej

Między książką a literaturą. Księga jubileuszowa dedykowana Profesor dr hab. Teresie Wilkoń z okazji 45-lecia pracy naukowej i dydaktycznej

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: history of Polish literature; poetry; book culture; reading; ethics;dialectology;

Publikacja zawiera rozprawy sytuujące się tematycznie w obrębie problematyki bibliologicznej, literaturoznawczej i kulturoznawczej. Księgę otwierają artykuły poświęcono szeroko rozumianej kulturze książki, w tym przede wszystkim czytelnictwu w konkretnych środowiskach. W bloku tekstów literaturoznawczych znalazły się artykuły dotyczące wybranych aspektów twórczości pisarzy staropolskich, z okresu romantyzmu i epoki pozytywizmu, a także analizy poezji Adama Czerniawskiego, Anny Frajlich, Konstantego Ildefonsa Gałczyńskiego, Jerzego Kronholda, Jana Lechonia. Kolejną część publikacji tworzą wypowiedzi o tematyce kulturoznawczej, poruszające problematykę: dobrych obyczajów uniwersyteckich, zwyczajów językowych, tradycji współtworzących tożsamość narodową, etyki.

Dramatic Genres. Reconfigurations

Gatunki dramatyczne. Rekonfiguracje

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: dramaturgy stage; dramaturgy radio; dramaturgy television; genre transformations; post-dramatic theater;performativity;

The book Gatunki dramatyczne. Rekonfiguracje [Dramatic Genres. Reconfigurations] is a collection of essays on genre and aesthetic transformations in recent stage, radio and television drama, considered in the context of changes in the model of contemporary theatre. The authors offer diverse reflections: both on traditional genres, such as comedy, and on genre varieties of relatively recent date. They present approaches that offer different than the traditional ones classification criteria and descriptive tools, such as the recognition of the political dimension of genology, memory and affect as genre categories, analysis of form from the perspective of intertextual references and re-combinations, genre transformations as a result of links between drama and music. A lot of space is devoted to multimedia genology in its various versions, i.e. a radio play revolutionised by modern sound broadcasting technology, a TV drama or Internet navigation, which modernise the construction of a dramatic text.

In Spaces of Culture. Interdisciplinary Studies

W przestrzeniach kultury. Studia interdyscyplinarne

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: theory of culture; cultural history; cultural transformations; social imaginarium; multimedia communication; digital culture

Series: Media i Kultura (1), ISSN 2719-9789 The texts composed in the monograph, however different in assumptions, in the adopted methodology, in the choice of (sometimes point) material that has become the basis for the diagnoses, enter into mutual interactions, creating a space for the participation of cultural researches and and cultural practices. The articles collected in the first part of the volume present a variety of conceptualization of cultural texts, recognize moduses and effects of joining its heritage, point out aspects of its co-creation and use, exhibit and critically analyze the variety of ways of participating in culture. The second part of the volume was dominated by reflections on the situation (and transformation) of the subject, culture, its recipients, and finally: the entire humanities in contemporary media reality. The basic context of the phenomena discussed here by the authors is the digital revolution, the effects of which are still not fully perceptible to us. This situation not only forces researchers to develop new tools and methodologies, but also provokes to ask questions about the opportunities and threats posed by new technologies in building (post) human identity, modifying social communication principles and establishing relationships between high and low culture.

Labour quality and state of social bonds. Monograph in commemoration of prof. Władysław Jacher in tenth anniversary of death

Jakość pracy a stan więzi społecznych. Monografia poświęcona pamięci prof. Władysława Jachera w dziesiątą rocznicę śmierci

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Władysław Jacher; social bonds; labour;work ethos;

The monography presents texts based on conference held under the same title, organized by Insti-tute of Sociology at university of Silesia in Katowice, to commemorate prof. Władysław Jacher at 10th anniversary of his death. Thematic range of the publication is concentrated within the scope of prof. Władysław Jacher’s research interests (however not limited to his thought). Articles com-piled in this volume cover analysis of Władysław Jacher’s thought topicality (i.e. Janusz Mariański’s article), broaden the scope of understanding of certain issues (for example problem of conflict bonds), analyse frontiers of theories applicability (for example concept of moral transgression in context of AI and algorithm economy), take into consideration new application potential of well-developed concepts (for example broadening the meaning of the concept of work by inclusion of fans and users work), present results of research (for example text by Urszula Swadźba on taking up work motivations within V4 studens) and texts restoring the memory of Władysław Jacher’s forgotten achievements (i.e. text devoted to social world of Odra river research). Main topics of interest are reflected in the structure of the book divided into three parts: pirst devoted to the problem of social bonds, second to the issue of labour and last, titled margins of Władysław Jacher’s thought (covering trade and regional problems).

The richness of the Polish language in the light of its history, volume 8

Bogactwo polszczyzny w świetle jej historii. T. 8

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: history of the Polish language; Polish linguistics; semantics; etymology;conceptualisation;

The eight volume of the series The richness of the Polish language in the light of its history is a publication that presents the achievements of the national scientific conference (Katowice, 7 November 2018). The authors of the articles collected in this volume have made various historical and linguistic issues, primarily: description of old and contemporary lexis oriented in terms of vocabulary, semantics or etymology; the problems of nominations in the history of the Polish language; conceptualisation of different concepts in both language and culture. Due to the diversity of thematic circles this book was divided into three parts (From history to modernity – continuity, change, inspirations; From word to meaning - etymology, transformations, variants; From sign to text - syntax, genres, functions), showing a wide spectrum of scientific interests of the researchers.

Various Dimensions of Place in Language Studies

Various Dimensions of Place in Language Studies

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Keywords: contrastive linguistics; place; conceptualisation; pragmatics;language contact;

The book serves as a collection of articles concerning different approaches to the notion of ‘place’ in terms of contrastive studies. Out of eight articles, the first four concentrate on the place of conceptualization in languages. Next two contributions discuss the notion of ‘place’ from a more literal point of view, concentrating on the role of case and prepositional systems in the expression of place as well as on the concept of place from the pragmatic point of view, as discursive representation of places in Polish and American cultures is analysed. The third part of the book contains two articles focusing on language contact. Each of the above-mentioned contributions provides an inspiring approach to contrastive studies and further research.