Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego

The Erinys’ Song. The Language and Figures of Revenge in the Greek Tragedies of the Atreid Saga

Pieśń Erynii. Język zemsty i jej figury w attyckich tragediach rodu Atrydów

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

Keywords: Greek Tragedies; Atreid Saga

Tryumfalny powrót pogromcy Troi zamienił się w rzeź. Agamemnon został podstępnie zamordowany przez swoją żonę Klytajmestrę i jej kochanka. Być może to jej zemsta za ofiarowanie Ifigenii, być może to szał zagłady od pokoleń wyniszczający ród Atrydów błędnym kołem odwetu, być może to tylko małżeńska zdrada. Konkluzja jest zawsze ta sama. Za krew Agamemnona Klytajmestra płaci własnym życiem. Z rąk swego syna. Mit ten w rękach ateńskich dramaturgów zyskał nieśmiertelność i siłę wyrazu, za sprawą której nawet dziś, po z górą dwudziestu pięciu wiekach, jest źródłem inspiracji i przedmiotem niesłabnącego zainteresowania. Niniejsza publikacja stanowi próbę jego odczytania z uwzględnieniem tego, co różnić mogło antyczne, greckie doświadczenie tragedii od współczesnego.

Self-promotional discourse and its contemporary versions. T.1

Dyskurs autopromocyjny i jego współczesne odsłony. T. 1

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

Keywords: Self-promotional discourse

Zasadniczym tematem tomu jest wieloaspektowe ujęcie dyskursu autopromocyjnego we współczesnych realiach. Prace znajdujące się w tym tomie starają się wypełnić lukę w studiach nad dynamicznie rozwijającym się w Polsce dyskursem autopromocyjnym. Wśród autorów znaleźli się językoznawcy, logopedzi, trenerzy biznesu, medioznawcy oraz kulturoznawcy, którzy w swoich tekstach przedstawili zjawisko autopromocji w perspektywie zarówno swoich badań naukowych, jak i doświadczeń zawodowych.Tom adresowany jest zarówno do studentów specjalizacji: dziennikarstwo, komunikacja medialna, komunikacja promocyjna oraz dyskurs publiczny w obrębie studiów humanistycznych, jak i do studentów dziennikarstwa oraz różnych specjalizacji medialnych na Wydziałach Nauk Społecznych oraz Pedagogiczno-Psychologicznych jako doskonałe wzbogacenie wiedzy na temat autopromocji.

A Dialogue on Silesia. On the (Un) Changeability of the Landscape of this Area and its Inhabitants in Polish Syntheses of the National History of the Period of Annexation (A Historiographic Study)

Dialog o Śląsku. O (nie)zmienności obrazu krainy i jej mieszkańców w polskich syntezach dziejów narodowych epoki zaborów (studium historiograficzne)

Author(s): Dorota Malczewska-Pawelec / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Silesia; history of Silesia

The very study constitutes an attempt to reflect on the ways of approaching the Silesianissues in Polish synthetic narrations written at the end of the Republic of Both Nations atthe time of a complete loss of Polish statehood. The author aimed to both reconstruct thepresence of Silesian motives in the afore-mentioned type of historical works synthetically,and recognize and capture a dynamic process of their shaping and changing. She also triedto present a specified selection of opinions on Silesia as a certain living whole, a set ofpresentations and explanations connected with complex relations of references, continuation,negation or transposition. In searching proper categories and research tools, she turned tothe theory of dialogue and studies on intertextuality deriving from it.The work consists of five chapters. In the first, the author tries to ground her considerationsin the context of an already existing historiographic tradition of researching the“Polish historical thought”, presents the theoretical assumptions, explains the conception,and discusses the empirical basis, as well as specifies the subject of research. In the secondchapter, she outlines a socio-political and historiographic-cultural context accompanyingthe appearance of the “first text”, Historya narodu polskiego by Adam Naruszewicz, developsa detailed analysis of the very work from the perspective of selected Silesian aspects, and,finally, discusses “references” — subsequent views on Silesia included in synthetic worksof the Enlightenment. In two subsequent chapters, she presents “voices” of a dialogue onSilesia heard in Romanticism and Positivism respectively in a chronological order. In eachof them, she tries to show a network of dialogue relations combining subsequent “replicas”with the most important texts of the epochs in question, syntheses by Joachim Lelewel (forRomanticism) and works by the leader of Krakow school owned by Michał Bobrzyńskiand Józef Szujski (for post-Upraising times). The scope of considerations is expanded tomonographic books at that time which to a smaller or greater extent dealt with the Silesianissues, treating them as the “providers” of the new arguments to the dialogue participants.In the fifth chapter, devoted to Neoromanticism, the author presents the first two opinionsof the subsequent segment of a dialogue process, interrupted by the outbreak of the WorldWar I, belonging to Feliks Koneczny and Józef Dąbrowski. In closing, she shows a holisticcharacteristic of a dialogue on Silesia in a synthetic way, and points to its substantialdeterminants.

A journey to Atlantis. On the first volume of Teodor Parnicki’s A New Fairy Tale

Podróż na Atlantydę. O I tomie „Nowej baśni” Teodora Parnickiego

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

Keywords: Atlantis; Teodor Parnicki

The present work is most of all an analysis of volume I of the series of novels by TeodorParnicki Nowa baśń (A New Fairy Tale), entitled Robotnicy wezwani o jedenastej (WorkersCalled at Eleven). The scope of the study defines both the work’s merits and its shortcomings.Amongst its advantages can be counted the completeness of the author’s analysis,which results in his work being the very first exhaustive “guidebook” for the novel. Onthe other hand, the work’s disadvantage is, induced by Parnicki’s text, intricacy of thedissertation, stemming from the novel’s purely historical context. If a reader of the dissertationis not acquainted with the novel in question, the analysis will most certainlyseem tedious. Such a meticulous analysis, however, is indispensable for the subsequentinterpretations having a two-way course.Firstly, the interpretation follows the thread of the inspiration Ingarden’s or, morebroadly, phenomenological thought, had for Parnicki’s writing. Here we deal with theinfluence on generic transformations of the historical novel as a literary text and the effectthe above-mentioned thought had on the way of perceiving, so to speak, historicityitself as a textual/nontextual correlate of the novel. Literaryness is treated by Ingardenhimself as a kind of border marking the status of objects and characters appearing inthe literary work – and the essence of this border is the suspension of assertion of thejudgments said in a text. But, a historical novel seems to be a peculiar case in this scope,where it can be said that the suspension of assertion is the slightest. Parnicki followedthis trace and transformed the classical genre of historical novel in order to exceed thissuspension to the greatest possible extent. Therefore, the novels by Parnicki shouldby classified as naturally historical novels. Beings thus appear in these novels in theirnaturally historical, not simply historical, manner. What results from this is a particularconception of history understood as natural histories to be regained; histories which intheir singular occurrence are always primarily nontextual and not yet discussed. Primarilythey are biological, not textual.The second group of interpretive operations aims to determine the thematic field ofParnicki’s naturally historical novels as the novels on death. The Parnicki’s text arduouslypenetrates various European myths and tales considering death, testing if they bring anyform of explanation or consolation. The answer to this question is negative. Eventually,death remains inconceivable phenomenon, escaping every attempt to explain or understandit. And this is the conviction that Parnicki leaves his reader with. In the last scene ofthe novel all the text on death silent together with the voice of the narrator – what staysat the stage in the bare life that dies.The principle context of interpretation appears to be the myth of Atlantis that hasa triple meaning in the novel. Firstly, its literally meaning is a mythical land that cannotbe conquered, even thought the protagonists try to reach its shore. Second, it signifiesunconquerable land of “real” history, the land of reliable history, a history-being. Third,the Atlantis becomes a metaphor of death, because only through death we have a brushof experience that cannot be pass on or expressed in words.

The state and conditions of self-education of students

Stan i uwarunkowania autoedukacji studentów

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

Keywords: self-education of students; students; education

Prezentowane w pracy badania stanowiły próbę holistycznego ujęcia autoedukacji studentów studiów pedagogicznych i niepedagogicznych. Przyjęto przy tym szerokie rozumienie autoedukacji jako autonomicznego procesu, w którym jednostka jest aktywnym podmiotem kierującym własnym rozwojem, zgodnie z uznawanymi przez siebie wartościami. W badaniach wykorzystano perspektywę triangulacyjną, która polegała na zastosowaniu odmiennych podejść metodologicznych na poszczególnych etapach przeprowadzonych badań. W etapie pierwszym – ilościowym – zmierzano do określenia stopnia aktywności autoedukacyjnej studentów z uwzględnieniem uwarunkowań związanych z płcią, kierunkiem, rodzajem, rokiem studiów i samooceną. W wyniku badań ilościowych wyłoniono dwie grupy problemowe: studentów o najwyższym i najniższym stopniu aktywności autoedukacyjnej. Kolejny – jakościowy etap badań, oparty na biografii podmiotowej – polegał na ukazaniu indywidualnych, osobistych doświadczeń i przeżyć osób badanych w zakresie autoedukacji, co umożliwiło odkrycie osobowych uwarunkowań tego procesu, sformułowanie określonych prawidłowości oraz uogólnień dotyczących podjętej problematyki.Publikacja jest adresowana do wszystkich osób zainteresowanych samodzielną pracą nad własnym rozwojem, zawarte w niej treści mogą stanowić podstawę do autorefleksji i inspirować do podejmowania własnego wysiłku autoedukacyjnego, niezbędnego dla ukształtowania tożsamej i autonomicznej osobowości oraz rozwoju zdolności twórczych. Wskazania praktyczne, dotyczące przebiegu autoedukacji, jej dynamizacji, optymalnych warunków dla zaistnienia i efektywności tego procesu mogą mieć szczególne znaczenie dla osób studiujących oraz nauczycieli akademickich, którzy zechcą podjąć trud wspomagania studentów w ich aktywności autoedukacyjnej.

Doświadczając. Szkice o twórczości (anty)modernistycznej

Doświadczając. Szkice o twórczości (anty)modernistycznej

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

Keywords: antymodernizm; twórczość antymodernistyczna;

Publikacja jest adresowana do badaczy literatury zainteresowanych nowymi i odkrywczymi interpretacjami tekstów XX-wiecznych. Zaletą książki jest jej wielogłosowość i zróżnicowanie tematyczne, w jej skład wchodzą teksty zorientowane tak teoretycznie jak i historycznie. Szerokie spektrum interpretacji jakich podejmują się młodzi badacze stanowi ciekawy zapis ich doświadczeń lekturowych (m.in. Samuela Becketta, Jarosława Marka Rymkiewicza, Andrzeja Sosnowskiego, Andrzeja K. Waśkiewicza, Tadeusza Różewicza, Brunona Schulza) związanych z próbą reinterpretacji klasycznych tekstów z perspektywy teorii i filozofii postmodernizmu ze szczególnym zwróceniem uwagi na rolę doświadczenia i egzystencji w literaturze.

Speech genres and their evolution. T. 4: Genre and social communication

Gatunki mowy i ich ewolucja. T. 4: Gatunek a komunikacja społeczna

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

Keywords: gatunki mowy; komunikacja społeczna

Tom IV kontynuuje genologiczną tradycję badań, tym razem ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem związków, jakie istnieją między gatunkowym zróżnicowaniem uniwersum mowy a formami komunikacji społecznej – dziś i w dawnej Polsce. Autorzy koncentrują się na zagadnieniu komunikacji jako szeroko pojętej transmisji informacji i jej gatunkowych „wcieleń”. Rozważania teoretyczne – im poświęcone są artykuły zamieszczone w części pierwszej pracy – znajdują dopełnienie w analizach i interpretacjach, zarówno gatunków użytkowych, jak i artystycznych, składających się na część drugą tomu. Publikacje te wzbogaca forma dyskusji panelowej, w której badacze starali się uchwycić wykładniki sytuacji poznawczej oraz podstawowych tendencji w tekstologii polskiej, niemieckiej i francuskiej.

Press of the central government unions in Second Republic of Poland

Prasa centralnych związków samorządowych w Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej

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

Keywords: Second Republic of Poland

ubject of study is press of the central territorial self-government’s unions in Second Republicof Poland, released in years 1919-1939. These are periodicals of government organizations ofall-Poland range, clustering intercomunal units. These were Związek Miast Polskich, ZwiązekGmin Wiejskich Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej and name-changing organization ofcounty (powiat) self-governments: Związek Sejmików Powiatowych RzeczypospolitejPolskiej, Zrzeszenie Samorządów Powiatowych i Związek Powiatów RzeczypospolitejPolskiej.Topic of self-government press for long years wasn’t raising deeper interests of researchers.Till today we know a little about diverse character of these publishing companies becausethese problems aren’t fully recognized and this issue deserves syntetic study. I put to detailedobservation: all-Poland county organizations weekly - “Samorząd” (1919-1939), municipalactivist monthly - “ Samorząd Miejski” (1921-1939) and quaterly devoted comunal theory andlife - “Samorząd Terytorialny” (1929-1939). These titles are the most representative for all-Polandself-government’s press of interwar period because they were connected to the biggestself-government’s organizations representing county councils and counties, cities, districtsand the smallest administrative units which are examplifications of various types of periodics:weekly, monthly, quaterly whereas typology of frequency of appearance connects with periodic’stypology character: informational, scientific for the general public and specialist-scientific.Taking into account the specification of the subject of this work the actual method ofresarch is bibliological-historical study and supporting them specific research technics.Research that I carry into history and function of press has bibliological and historical characterbecause that’s the angle I analyse periodics under. The technics I use are most often usedin press studies.Because periodics shouldn’t be examined in isolation, which means without a context,I tried to look into the issue from a broad perspective in six parts of my work, that’s why Ididn’t limit only to chosen magazines but I examined their deepest cultural-historical context:press of self-government unions rising from family’s and european’s traditions.The treatise has problematical-chronological character. First part - Introduction -contains explanation of term: self-government press. It considers traditions of self-governmentand problem of central unions which is element that treats of historical point of view at birthof polish administration and state institutions which was effect of regaining independenceby Poland. I also elaborated issue of establishing and activity of Związek Miast Polskich andZwiązek Sejmików Powiatowych.In second part I tried to locate all-Poland self-government publishers on press market.Here I discussed statistical context, publishers geography and issues of legal situation in whichmagazines of central self-government unions functioned.Then - in next three parts - I presented, using uniform model, titles „Samorząd”,„Samorząd Miejski” and „Samorząd Terytorialny”. I presented origins and facts, thatinf luenced magazines creation, and earlier forms that affected final character andshape of periodics. I considered material base, task and history of magazines, redactorsprofiles and authors in context of their inf luence on periodic shape. I characterizedpermanent columns and thematic cycles and also I made contents (thematicstructure) and formal-publishing analysis. The most important parts of last one are:graphic design, typographical arrangement, binding, ilustrating material (photographies,cartographical materials, tables, drawings and sketches), imprint, inf luencerange (circulation, distribution area, subscription types and receivers), format, size,pagination, prize, text breaking, printing base (printing houses), quality and durabilityof paper and advertisments. Size of parts dedicated to particular titles are matchingtheir publishing cycle and periodization.Study is closed by last part, ending. Bibliography of used literature, frequencyindex of authors who were publishing in mentioned titles and illustration materialis fulfillment to this study.In my work I discussed in details problem of publishers and sections of documentary(bibliographical) character, published in the pages of central self-governmentunions’s press. I thoroughly analysed sections Tabllettes Dokumentaires Municipales,Autonomie Municipale and Bibliografaę Miast Polskich appearing in „Samorząd Miejski”,Przewodnik wśród Książek and Oceny i Sprawozdania from „Samorząd”, Bibliografia,Zagadnienia Samorządowe w Prasie and Przegląd Piśmiennictwa in „SamorządTerytorialny” and also publications like Bibliografia dotycząca działalności samorząduw zakresie oświaty pozaszkolnej and Bibliografia literatury o gminie wiejskiej. Manytimes elaborations of these sections, documental publications and bibliographieswere their first analysis. Never till today they weren’t noticed and characterized bybibliographical history researchers and they are very valueable bibliographical relicin many respects.Issue of central press of self-government unions which I discussed in this treatisewasn’t so far subject of scientific research which involves that there is lack of systematicalelaboration. There are only a few pieces of information about magazineswhich exists only in collective publications where they have general character andare only superficial. The presented work, although is significantly widening currentknowgledge about self-government press, doesn’t aspire to overall perspective of thissubject and has ambitions to show - on three chosen examples - constitutive elementsof magazines owned by central self-government unions. Maybe this will be an inspirationto further research into self-government press in The Second Republic of Poland.

Prom

Prom

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

Prom to zbiór kikludziesięciu krótkich opowiadań pierwotnie publikowanych na łamach dodatku kulturalnego chorwackiej gazety „Jutarnji list”. Miroslav Mićanović zabiera nas w podróż w czasie i przestrzeni: do okresu dzieciństwa, dorastania, studiów, dorosłego już życia wiedzionego w roli męża i ojca. Czytelnik przenosi się wraz z wyeksponowanym pierwszoosobowym narratorem to na pogranicze bośniacko-chorwackie, do stron rodzinnych pisarza, to do Zagrzebia, to znów na wyspę Vis lub za ocean, do dalekiej Australii. Książka nie ma klasycznego początku ani końca; są fragmenty, epizody, zapis pojedynczych doświadczeń, mozaika chwil, z których tak naprawdę składa się nasze życie. Dlatego „rejs promem” nie odbywa się po z góry wytyczonej trasie, można go zacząć w dowolnym miejscu, przerwać w wybranym momencie, odłożyć na później lub przyłączyć się jako towarzysz podróży w jego trakcie…

The poetics of migration. The experience of borders in Polish literature at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries

Poetyka migracji. Doświadczenie granic w literaturze polskiej przełomu XX i XXI wieku

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

Keywords: Polish literature; poetry

Tom „Poetyka migracji” poświęcony jest zjawisku końca emigracji i skupia się na ostatniej polskiej fali emigranckiej – lat 80. XX wieku. Kolejne rozdziały dokumentują teoretyczne dyskusje nad pojęciami emigracji, postemigracji, migracji i pamięci. Do badanych zagadnień należą polemika z tradycją emigracji oraz kondycja (e)migranta. Literatura ostatniej fali emigracji prezentuje różne typy nowego bohatera: to m.in. wysiedlony, azylant i gastarbeiter. Jednym z centralnych zjawisk opisywanych w książce jest twórczość polskich (i pochodzących z Polski) autorów żyjących w Niemczech. Obok takich nazwisk jak Janusz Rudnicki, Dariusz Muszer, Natasza Goerke, Krzysztof Niewrzęda i Artur Becker mowa tu również o przedstawicielach tzw. pokolenia Podolskiego (Magdalena Felixa, Paulina Schulz). „Poetyka migracji” jest wspólnym polsko-niemieckim projektem naukowym i wydawniczym, to pierwsza tak szeroka publikacja na temat literatury „emigracji solidarnościowej”. W wersji niemieckiej ukazała się jako „Polnische Literatur in Bewegung. Die Exilwelle der 1980er Jahre” w 2013 roku w wydawnictwie transcript. Publikacja adresowana jest głównie do polonistów i germanistów, ale również do szerokiego grona czytelników zainteresowanych tematem (e)migracji.

From the past and present of pedagogical education in Cieszyn

Z przeszłości i współczesności kształcenia pedagogicznego w Cieszynie

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

Keywords: pedagogy; Cieszyn

Celem publikacji pt. Z przeszłości i współczesności kształcenia pedagogicznego w Cieszynie pod redakcją Roberta Mrózka i Urszuli Szuścik jest upamiętnienie stulecia powstania i działalności Seminarium Nauczycielskiego w Cieszynie. Treści artykułów ukazują historię, tradycję i współczesność w kształceniu nauczycieli w Seminarium cieszyńskim. Położono szczególny nacisk na przedstawienie roli tradycji w budowaniu współczesnego wizerunku kształcenia akademickiego w Cieszynie.

Health promotion in local environment. Theoretical assumptions and practical exemplifications (a pedagogical perspective)

Promocja zdrowia w środowisku lokalnym. Założenia teoretyczne i praktyczne egzemplifikacje (perspektywa pedagogiczna)

Author(s): Katarzyna Kowalczewska-Grabowska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: local environment

Issues concerning health and health promotion have been presented in numerouspublications on medicine, psychology, sociology, economics and education. In mostcases, they focus on theoretical analysis of health promotion concept which is subjectto comparison with current knowledge in a given discipline. The author of the publicationhas undertaken an attempt to implement the health promotion concept in socialeducation and to define the role of social pedagogue in local communities in increasingtheir health potential.The literature of the subject contains reflections of Prof. Ewa Syrek on this issue,this publication, however, presents description of theoretical aspects, as well as an analysisof health promotion-related actions, which have been carried out so far in Silesianprovince.Research activities should focus not only on acquiring knowledge on facts, phenomenaand processes, both for individuals and communities, but also on describing,explaining and forecasting them, searching for cause- and result as well as statisticalrelations or obtaining data for the purpose of creating theoretical pedagogical knowledgeand supporting practical aspects of pedagogy. The publication at issue serves allthese purposes.The book is intended for pedagogy students, especially of health pedagogy, but itcan also be useful for students of nursing or postgraduate students of education, sociology,and medicine dealing with public health. It is also addressed to representatives ofself-governments who implement pro-health initiatives in local communities and canbe helpful in planning and carrying out health-promotion related projects.

A Model of the Terminology Information System

Model systemu informacji terminologicznej

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

Keywords: information system

Within science and technology, specialist language is a basic cognitive and communication tool, whose constitutive element lies in its terminology. Specialist vocabulary is an object of interest to researchers in many areas of study, for a well-ordered, coherent set of terms and definitions makes a considerable impact upon the development of each discipline of study. Terminology is also a part of the interdisciplinary research that aims to broaden one’s knowledge of terms and concepts representing them in different aspects, such as linguistic, cognitive, and socio-cultural in addition to technical ones which are predominantly related to the organization of terminological databases and providing access to them.Free and easy access to well-organized terminological databases enables multidisciplinary and multilingual communication (scientific, technical, business). This access facilitates the creation of linguistic information databases, which is essential to building effective tools of automatic analysis and indexing specialist titles as well as intelligent searching for information on the Internet.The purpose of the reflections and analyses presented in this book is to propose an original, nationwide, multidisciplinary model of the information terminology system that would allow for solving current problems of organization and access to terminology as well as information related to terminological activities. Among the more important characteristics of the model would be: multidisciplinary and complex information that determines terms and concepts, high functionality and flexibility, and an openness to users’ changing needs. As far as scientific and practical points of view are concerned, this model is designed in such a way that elements of different terminological and linguistic theories along with author’s concepts meet together (e.g. multiple definitions of particular terms, a variety of definition types, synchronic-diachronic approach, descriptive-prescriptive function, proper names inclusion, storage of bibliographic and factual information related to terminological activities and the application of topic maps to represent, store, and provide access to information terminology).In order to achieve this goal, qualitative research methods have been applied. An analysis of written materials from the fields of information science, terminology and terminography have been done, which allowed for introducing the hitherto theoretical models of terminology. The analysis mainly focused on assumptions, characteristics and functions of the models so as to identify their advantages and disadvantages in linguistic, cognitive and communicational aspects. Furthermore, content analysis has been used to research both Polish and international terminology web services, which led to obtaining answers regarding the extent to which they include the theoretical assumptions of the existing models of terminology.While gathering information on the subject of the implementation of international terminological projects a free-form technique has been applied. The collected information made itpossible to delineate weak points of the existing models of terminological data. The data alsoenabled us to determine the functionality of the current models of access to terminology as wellas to unveil potential reasons for a lack of a well-coordinated, nationwide terminological activityin Poland. Knowledge gained on the basis of the above data paved the way for proposing a newmodel for a national system of terminology information which reduces the problems noticed interminology management.The book is comprised of a preface, three chapters and a conclusion. Chapter one is dividedinto three subchapters that present issues concerned with information, terminology, andterminology information. Subchapter one illustrates different approaches to information and itsimportance in organized structures. Subchapter two explains the nature of concepts and terms,as well as the status of terminology, focusing on: determination of the scope of terminologicalactivity, illustrating major terminological theories, describing the application of terminology inspecialist communication, translations and information-retrieval languages. Subchapter threeprovides a definition of information terminology, its characteristics, role and significance. It alsodescribes sources and users of terminology information.Chapter two begins by going over the problems of terminology information, that is: poorquality of lexical resources, fragmentation and dissemination of sources, and difficulties in accessingterminology databases. Following this, chapter two proceeds to discuss technical issuesrelated to organization and accessibility of terminology information. A meta-model and a formatfor exchanging terminological data has been presented and apart from that also a project for theSemantic Network and its most important components. Special focus is placed on one of theconcepts of Semantic Network implementation, namely topic maps which have been proposed tomanage terminology information.Chapter three aims to present the author’s model of terminology information. It providesa depiction of its assumptions and characteristics at all levels: (1) microstructure which encompassesthe elements related to the ways of information organization in entries (records);(2) macrostructure which includes, among other things, the thematic scope of the system, orderof entries, documentation, and software; (3) infrastructure such as institutions, organizations,companies, and specialists involved in building and providing access to terminological resourceswithin the system as well as technical equipment (appliances, networks), rules and proceduresused in terminological activity.The subject of terminology information has been taken up due to the significant role ofterminology in specialist communication, information processing, and in knowledge representationand transfer that overcomes systemic, disciplinary, linguistic, and also cultural barriers.The formation of the open terminology information system in Poland will certainly enablecomprehensive access to updated and complete terminology of many disciplines and businesses.What is more, it will contribute to raising social awareness of the role of terminology in science,technology, and social life, and thus it will enrich language culture.

Schemas of metaphorical extension. On the basis of analysis of the conceptual content and organization of selected lexical units referring to light

Schémas d’extension métaphorique. À partir de l’analyse des contenus et des organisations conceptuels de certaines unités lexicales se référant à la lumière

Author(s): Barbara Taraszka-Drożdż / Language(s): French

Keywords: cognitive linguistics

The present work is situated within the paradigm of Cognitive Linguistics,whose major claim is that language constitutes an integral part of human cognition.This trend was created at the end of the 1970s and is represented by the work ofRonald Langacker, George Lakoff, Gilles Fauconnier, and Mark Turner. One of theareas of interest within this trend is the phenomenon of metaphor, which is also thesubject of the present thesis.The first, theoretical part, begins with an account of the basic assumptions ofthe Conceptual Metaphor Theory, which played a significant role in the study ofmetaphor. This theory was introduced by Lakoff and Johnson in the book MetaphorsWe Live By. In it, the authors also put forward a claim about the central role of metaphorin language and cognition. This theory has been both further developed bysuch scholars as Zoltan Kövecses, Joseph Grady, Raymond Gibbs, or Mark Turner,and also modified under the influence of the Blending Theory by Fauconnier andTurner. The second chapter of the theoretical part is devoted to the main assumptionsof Cognitive Grammar formulated by Langacker. Within this complex theoryof language, metaphor is primarily viewed as a type of semantic extension entailinga change of domain. The most significant role in such extensions is played by the abstract,schematic structures emerging from them. A juxtaposition of these two theoriesin the third chapter allows the author to observe the superiority of Langacker’stheory. It permits an account of the phenomenon of metaphor in all complexity —from metaphorical extensions of single linguistic units to highly schematic structurescalled patterns of metaphorical extension.The aim of the second part of the book is an application of Cognitive Grammartools to an analysis of metaphorical extensions of selected French lexemes. On thisbasis, the author arrives at the schematic structures emerging from these extensions.Taking into consideration one of the major claims of Cognitive Grammar — that allgeneralizations arise as schematizations of more specific structures — the researchbegins with an analysis of the conceptual content and organization of each of theselected items. The object of the analysis is the item lumière (light) and other selectedlexemes referring to light.At the first stage, the object of the analysis is these lexemes’ conceptual contentand the particular way of construing that content in the domain of visual perception,that is, the domain which constitutes the standard in the categorizing relationshipsdescribed in further parts of the publication. Due to an application of CognitiveGrammar tools, it is possible to point to similarities and differences between theanalyzed items at the level of their profile, base, and the immediate and maximalscope.The consequent analysis of the extensions of the above-mentioned items to otherdomains (auditory, intellectual, social, emotional, and moral) allows the author toarrive at a whole system of structures which are schematic in relation to these extensions.Among these, at the highest level of schematicity, the following patterns ofmetaphorical extension are enumerated: [WHAT CONCERNS LIGHT] ---> [WHATCONCERNS AUDITORY SENSATIONS], [WHAT CONCERNS LIGHT] ---> [WHATCONCERNS EXPERIENCES RELATED TO KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING]and [WHAT CONCERNS LIGHT] ---> [WHAT CONCERNS EXPERIENCES INTHE EMOTIONAL AND MORAL SPHERE]. Each of the above patterns is describedalong with the matrix of domains which can be activated by particular extensionsas well as with the bodily and cultural knowledge constituting the background forthese extensions.With the adoption of Langacker’s definition, according to which metaphoricalextensions involve a change of domain, it is possible to call these schemas metaphoricalpatterns. However, the author notes important discrepancies concerning the relationsbetween the standard and target of the above patterns. These discrepancies,which are sometimes classified in the literature as metonymical or metaphorical, areapproached in the book by means of cognitive distance. The analysis also enablesthe author to make some observations concerning the axiological dimension whichcan be evoked by some of the patterns’ instantiations.

Timarion albo Timariona przypadki przez niego opowiedziane

Timarion albo Timariona przypadki przez niego opowiedziane

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

Keywords: Timarion

Timarion to anonimowa dwunastowieczna bizantyńska satyra opowiadająca o podróży tytułowego bohatera do Hadesu. Timarion, straciwszy w wyniku choroby jeden z czterech płynów, niezbędnych według Hippokratesa do życia, niesłusznie zostaje uznany za zmarłego. W wyniku złożonej apelacji, podziemni sędziowie uznają go za żywego i odsyłają na ziemię.Tekst satyryzuje dwunastowiecznych intelektualistów, bizantyńskie sądy, wiarę w antyczne teorie medyczne, wykorzystując do tego cały arsenał cytatów, nawiązań i motywów zaczerpniętych z literatury antycznej.Tłumaczenie zostało poprzedzone obszernym wstępem i opatrzone przypisami, których celem jest przybliżenie Czytelnikowi realiów dwunastowiecznego Konstantynopola.

Psychological work with the film

Psychologiczna praca z filmem

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

Keywords: film

Książka Psychologiczna praca z filmem zawiera pogłębione analizy psychologiczne wybranych filmów oraz gotowe scenariusze zajęć i ćwiczeń. Dzięki przystępnemu językowi może być inspiracją zarówno dla specjalistów różnych dziedzin, jak i laików. To podręcznik, ale przede wszystkim materiał zachęcający do refleksji nad problemami ukazanymi na ekranie. Tytułową psychologiczną pracę z filmem mogą podejmować uczestnicy szkoleń, studenci, uczniowie, ale też wszyscy zainteresowani poszerzeniem swojej wiedzy.„Potrzeba takiego kompendium dydaktycznego jest oczywista, a jej dostrzeżenie i inicjatywa, aby ją zaspokoić, jest ze wszech miar godna uznania. Podręcznik pomoże jednocześnie kształcić studentów w zakresie wiedzy psychologicznej oraz pobudzać ich wrażliwość na sztukę.” Prof. dr hab. Zofia Ratajczak, fragment recenzji„Wśród dostępnych podręczników brakuje pozycji, które wskazywałyby możliwości, jakie daje film w poszerzeniu warsztatu pracy psychologa i w zawodach pokrewnych. Publikacja będzie służyła prezentowaniu trudnych i ważnych tematów psychologicznych, które wiążą się z lepszym rozumieniem siebie i swego otoczenia.” Dr hab. prof. UG Anna Maria Zawadzka, fragment recenzji

Disappearance and incomplete existence. In the labyrinths of romantic and contemporary subjectivity

Zanikanie i istnienie niepełne. W labiryntach romantycznej i współczesnej podmiotowości

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

Keywords: romantic subjectivity; contemporary subjectivity

Zanikanie i istnienie niepełne. W labiryntach romantycznej i współczesnej podmiotowości jest próbą spojrzenia na podmiotowość nowoczesną jako na wydarzenie nieustannej zmiany, niepełne i niedokończone. Autorzy artykułów, które zbiera ten niewielki tom, podejmują się refleksji nad tymi przejawami obecności „ja”, które naznaczone są swego rodzaju niezbornością, a tym samym, które charakteryzuje specyficzna nieuchwytność, czy też, jak w tytule, zanikanie. Większość tekstów można włączyć do radykalnej linii refleksji dotyczącej problemu podmiotowości odkrywającej wewnątrz siebie stratę, eksponującej własną niepełność i brak. Rozpiętość chronologiczna analizowanych dzieł w artykułach, co wynika już z samego tytułu tomu, ma swoje uzasadnienie w przyjęciu możliwości pomyślenia kwestii podmiotowości pojętej inaczej niż wytwór konkretnej epoki. W książce można wyróżnić trzy główne linie rozważań – ekspozycje podmiotowości późnego romantyzmu, wysokiego modernizmu i ponowoczesności. Romantyzm, szczególnie okres kryzysu romantycznego „ja”, stanowi niejako „arche” nowoczesnego podmiotu. Niemożliwość ustalenia ścisłej formy obecności podmiotu w reprezentacji, a zarazem stałe do tego dążenie, jest jednym z głównych problemów modernizmu, ale odkrycia tego należy doszukiwać się w późnym romantyzmie. Natomiast późna nowoczesność wraz ze swym pluralizmem przynosi przesunięcie wartości celu względem wartości środków. Nie ma celu, do którego się dąży, są tylko środki dążenia, zatem ustalenia podmiotowości stale zanikają na rzecz przygodnych tożsamości. Zanikanie, brak kompletnych realizacji, migotanie podmiotowości stanowią wyłaniającą się z książki tezę dotyczącą granicznych przejawów obecności „ja” w perspektywie „trzech czasów”: romantyzmu, modernizmu i ponowoczesności. Poprzez owe skupienie uwagi na zrębach, przestrzeniach pogranicznych, kształtach niestandardowych książka wskazuje na nieustanną otwartość pytania o podmiot, a także na wymóg stałej rewizji dotychczasowych uwzględnień i potrzebę nowych, adekwatnych opisów. Tom zbiera artykuły badaczy z Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stanisława Wyszyńskiego, Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego i Uniwersytetu Śląskiego.

Thinking Kafka. Texts and contexts

Myśleć Kafką. Teksty i konteksty

Author(s): Mariusz Jochemczyk,Józef Olejniczak,Miłosz Piotrowiak / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Franz Kafka; comparative studies; anthropology of literature; body; war; masculinity; Kafka in Poland

Kafka and his work cannot be interpreted unequivocally; his texts cannot be assigned to any of the currents of modern literature (or more broadly — art). Such an unambiguous interpretation and strict assignment would immobilize the potency and dynamics still inherent in this work. Kafka would then become yet another dead butterfly on a pin, placed in the glass case of a collector of butterfly corpses, fascinated by the natural world and running around the meadows with a net… This is what we wanted to avoid in the sketches collected in this book. Did we succeed? The essay is an approximation, “circling around”; it is a testimony of attempts to come closer, and also attempts to tame. The movement of thought here takes place essentially within two separate intellectual circuits. Indeed, the volume constitutes a two-part whole, combining a detailed analysis of selected works by Franz Kafka (interpretive approach) with a broad overview of contextual themes (somatic experience, pacifism and attitude to war, transformations, flows/influences, metamorphoses, aporias, paradoxes of modern knowledge, etc.).

Media education and commercials. Theoretical studies and empirical analyses in the context of the school environment

Edukacja medialna a reklama. Studia teoretyczne i analizy empiryczne w kontekście środowiska szkolnego

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

Keywords: school environment

The subject‑matter discussed in this publication refers to important up‑to‑date issuesand phenomena taking place in the school reality surrounding us. The author’s own studies,the results of which were presented, can be inscribed into one of the thematic trendsof developing media pedagogy. Research explorations under investigation were related toestablishing the relationship between the media education workshops and reception aswell as knowledge on persuasive techniques used in commercials. Workshops for students,conducted in accordance with the author’s idea, concentrated on a broadly‑understoodphenomenon of the media, including commercials, too. A definition of the commercialreception was taken after J. Chrapek, basing on three parameters: frequency, preferencesand acceptation.The first chapter presents notions, functions and types of commercials. A referencewas made to selected models and conceptions of the influence of commercials on humanbeings. In summary, the specificity of a TV commercial, both in the theoretical dimension,and on the basis of findings from the empirical studies, were specified. The next chaptertouches upon the problem of the role of the media in human’s life according to selectedtheories. Television that has currently become the educational space for children andteenagers, with its advantages and disadvantages was characterized accordingly. The thirdchapter concentrates on the media education perceived as a challenge of the informationsociety. Further subchapters present selected notions, such as media education – educatingfor the media, media alphabetization with reference to the school and outside‑schoolenvironment, its subject, aims and tasks. Next, the analysis of the curriculum concerningthe educational path was made. The main changes related to the media education the curriculumreform brought were presented, as well as theoretical bases one should use whenplanning a didactic process were briefly elaborated on. Chapter four is a description ofsolutions and concrete project concerning the media alphabetization in the countries ofthe European Union and worldwide. The most important didactic aspects in the contextof the media education, from the perspective of the issues dealt with, were shown inchapter five.Presentation and analysis of the results gained in the course of the research conductedwere presented in three chapters. The results obtained during a pre‑testand post‑testwithin the pedagogical experiment according to the Solomon’s group plan within thecommercial reception in general constitute the main part of chapter six. Also, the attemptwas made to categorize the commercial audience. The experimental factor in the studies inquestion was the media education workshop, conducted in two Silesian grammar schoolsfor the period of one semester. Chapter seven presents the experimental commercial blockand the results received during the initial and final research, concerning the reception ofparticular commercial TV spots, also within the awareness of persuasive techniques usedin them. Chapter eight constitutes presentation of opinions of headmasters and studentsfrom schools in the Silesian voivodeship, as well as students preparing for the teacher orpedagogue profession on the school media education; needs, possibilities, limitations andsignificance. Explicating the results obtained, the tools of the statistic analysis were used,which allowed for finding certain correlations in the phenomena researched.The very studies showed the need of the media education in schools. Conclusionsare combined with a critical evaluation of educational influences directed at modificationof the reception of commercial messages among the grammar school youth. Despitecertain limitations, the studies can be inscribed into the attempts at working out theoreticalbases within the scope of the analysis of the influence of the media content, andcan become an inspiration for further academic explorations. They can also serve as theintroduction into an innovative practical pedagogical activity. Also, conclusions comingfrom the studies in question among headmasters of the Silesian schools and future pedagogues,can constitute a reference to designed practical solutions concerning educationalinstitutions.

Series of Translations. Polish Versions of Joseph Conrad’s Prose

Seria w przekładzie. Polskie warianty prozy Josepha Conrada

Author(s): Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Joseph Conrad

The present work analyzes one aspect of Translation Studies – a series of translationson the basis of Joseph Conrad’s prose. The first chapter is a theoretical analysis ofthe concept of ‘a series of translations’ in Polish as well as Western Translation Studies.In Western Translation Studies scholars use the term retranslation. This chapter delineatesthe evolution of the term ‘series of translations’ introduced by Edward Balcerzan andits development as well as modifications supplemented by Anna Legeżyńska and GrzegorzOjcewicz. As far as the concept of retranslation is concerned the works of AntoineBerman, Paul Bensimon, Yves Gambier and Lawrence Venuti are discussed. Moreoverin this chapter deconstruction approach to translation is explicated on the basis of theworks of Giles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida who undermine the central opposition ofthe original and copy.The second chapter is devoted to cultural implications of Joseph Conrad’s translations.The outline of Conrad’s reception in Poland was divided into several periods: YoungPoland, Interwar Period, War Years, Contemporary Times. The approach to Conrad’sworks and manner in which his books were interpreted and received in Poland dependedon the cultural, historical and political context. Analyzing Conrad’s translations andtheir impact on Polish culture one can detect the phenomena of “manipulation”, “refraction”and “re-writing”. According to different types of patronage Conrad’s works were tobe included in the canon of Polish literature (Stefan Żeromski’s patronage) so that theywould become “transparent”. The writer was enmeshed in ideological debates with Westerncapitalism in the socialist People’s Republic of Poland (PRL) and in consequencecrossed out from publishing and reading lists in Poland (socialist state authorities’patronage).Chapters III to V are analytical in nature. In each of those chapters the culturaland historical context was delineated (the views of British critics, the writers’ opinionsexpressed in private correspondence, last but not least the opinions of Conrad himselftriggered by the critical reception). Moreover the translators’ profiles were presentedas well as the cultural context in which the translated text was produced. Additionallyparatexts of translation (forewords, afterwords, footnotes, glossaries, translators’ pressinterviews) were commented upon. The analytical chapters concentrate on several majortranslatological issues. The third chapter is devoted to the retranslations of The Niggerof the “Narcissus” produced by Jan Lemański (1920) and Bronisław Zieliński (1961). Thetranslation issues that were chosen for this comparison comprise translation of dialectsand terminology. The fourth chapter consist in the analysis of Polish retranslations ofTyphoon by Jerzy Bohdan Rychliński (1926), Halina Carroll-Najder (1972) and MichałFilipczuk (2000). For this novella a crucial translatological problem was the semanticdominant used a noun not an adjective (dominanta semantyczna). The last chapterfocuses on intertextual chains on the basis of Polish retranslations of The Shadow-Lineproduced by Jadwiga Sienkiewiczówna (1925), Jan Józef Szczepański (1972) and EwaChruściel (2002).