Series:Językoznawstwo

Proper names in the Newest Prose – between Idiolect and the Issues of Modern Culture

Nazwy własne w najnowszej prozie polskiej – między idiolektem a problematyką współczesnej kultury

Author(s): Beata Kiszka-Pytel / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: newest prose; moder culture

The aim of the dissertation entitled Proper Names in the Newest Prose – between Idiolect and the Issues of Modern Culture is to present the functioning of the proprial sphere in the youngest Polish literature, with particular focus on chrematoma, whose presence is increasingly visible in the newest artistic texts. Onomastic analyses have been conducted and set against the backdrop of postmodernism, fluid modernity, current sociological problems and contemporary culture (including popular culture). What is researched in the individual parts of the work is the relationship between proper names in the context of the frequently discussed themes of contemporary culture, such as time, space and consumption. The chapter dedicated to the analysis of proper names versus the issues of temporality, revealed a problem of the importance of the contemporary Polish prose and its future readership in the perspective of the next decades. Is the newest literature doomed to be short lived by its preference for the onyms, due to the increasing frequency of impermanent propria in literature? Is this very volatility what has the “onymic” quickly fall prey to the archaic, that is the cause of the potential precariousness of the contemporary literature and its reluctant reception (albeit often stemming from its incomprehension)? (fragment of the summary)

Genres and styles of public discourse from a comparative angle

Gatunki i style dyskursu publicznego w ujęciu konfrontatywnym

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

Voices and Approaches in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language: Development of Identities in the Classroom

Voces y caminos en la enseñanza de español/LE: desarrollo de las identidades en el aula

Author(s): / Language(s): Spanish

Keywords: foreign language teaching; Spanish language teaching;

The monograph „Voces y caminos en la enseñanza de español /LE: desarrollo de las identidades en el aula”, intends to present a variety of research conducted in contemporary methodology of Spanish language teaching, which concerns the shaping and the development of identity. It contains twelve chapters, written by authors representing Polish and foreign universities, which are dedicated to both theoretical considerations found in part one, as well as concrete proposals of using the research in glottodidactic practice, which are described in part two.The first part of the publication is opened by the text written by Eva Álvarez Ramos i Carmen Romero Claudio, devoted to individual development and its influence over intercultural education. In further sections, R. Sergio Balches Arenas and Magdalena Słowik present new proposals for methodology of a Spanish lesson, on the basis of a comparative analysis of dimunitives in Spanish and Polish. Mª del Carmen García Manga exaplains the motivational mechanisms in shaping and creating lexis. Justyna Hadaś analyses introspection as the main strategy for teaching culture.. Antonio María López González, discusses the role of observation in the work of a teacher. Manuel Fco. Romero Oliva, i Ester Trigo Ibáñez present educating of new readers. José María Santos Rovira discusses the role of the teacher as a motivator in foreign language learning and Bożena Wisłocka Breit focuses on MOOC’s type courses and discusses their possible uses in teaching Spanish. The second part of the volume contains suggestions for using the academic research in Spanish language teaching, and the articcles are written by: Roland Campos López, Rafael Fernández Jiménez, Hugo Heredia Ponce, Fátim aQuirós Rivero, Monika Ciesielkiewicz, Raúl Fernández Jódar i Joanna Fernández.

Spaces of translation Vol. 4

Przestrzenie przekładu T. 4

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

Methods of stimulating Polish vocabulary development in bilingual children living in an English-speaking environment

Metody stymulowania rozwoju słownictwa w języku polskim u dzieci dwujęzycznych na emigracji

Author(s): Kamila Kuros-Kowalska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: bilingualism; vocabulary; emigration; methods of developing lexis; methods of teaching Polish abroad

The aim of this publication was to study the effectiveness of the original methods of stimulating Polish language vocabulary development in bilingual children living in an English-speaking environment. At the beginning of the research, the initial level of Polish language competence in Polish bilingual children living in England was assessed. The next stage of the study was to establish what change could be seen a year after the traditional and modern methods of stimulating vocabulary development were introduced. The results achieved by the bilingual children from England were compared with those of the monolingual children living in Poland. The publication consists of five chapters. The introduction is followed by a theoretical chapter dealing with the methodologies employed in the study. The second chapter focuses on the particular aspects of multilingualism which were recognised as essential to present a complete picture of the issues raised in this work. The third chapter provides a description of the research tools used in the study. One of the tools, “A child’s vocabulary test” (Test Słownika Dziecka) by professor Zbigniew Tarkowski, is already known in the world of science. Two other tools, referred to as a traditional method, which involves short stories accompanied by questions, and a modern method that is a multimedia program, were created by the Author exclusively for this research. The fourth chapter presents the development of the tested children’s vocabulary based on the analysis of the results obtained by the children from the youngest age group taking part in the research. The fifth chapter features the prospects associated with the use of the research tools. The research on lexis, whose level influences communication efficiency, brought a number of observations. They concerned the choice of particular vocabulary made by the children, problems (e.g. relating to defining), linguistic mechanisms applied by the bilingual children to develop their vocabulary. Moreover, the research enabled the Author to make observations with regard to the challenges faced by the bilingual children and bilingual families living in England. The results of the research allow to appreciate especially one of the methods which is broadly discussed in the chapters describing the tools and the results of the research.

Proper Names in Con/texts of Culture

Nazwy własne w kon/tekstach kultury

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

In this work, the author presents a firm conviction that proper names are specific cultural signs in terms of both understanding the culture’s historically varying dynamics and character, as well as diverse contexts in which proper names occur at a given stage of sociocultural development. Such an approach gives rise to certain revaluations in the analytic methods employed and – in a broader sense – the very essence of proper names. More frequently and definitely, contemporary onomastics seems to depart from traditional – and often orthodox – approaches, not only in terms of methodology but also objectives that the researchers set.The monograph provides various takes on the opportunities that onomastics along with its diverse instruments gives us. It is, however, worth highlighting that onomastics is understood as a field of linguistics that has a long established position and yet is subject to ceaseless methodological revaluations. We ought to expect that opening the onomastic reflections to other methods and pointing to their inter- and transdisciplinary implications may provide us with interesting effects and become an inspiration for further research.The reflections gathered in this book have been assigned to issues that constitute five themes; these themes reflect the author’s interests concerning the proper names related issues.The first group encompasses the texts touching upon the general, theoretical, and synthesising issues; to specify, it encompasses the author’s proposals of approaching onomastic issues with regard to the achievements of contemporary linguistics. These approaches attempt to propose research paths widening the scope of current perspectives. The next part gathers the onomastic re-interpretations of literary works from previous epochs (mainly baroque, but also positivism and the 20th century). The third part is comprised of the texts that place onomastics in the context of gender studies, which seems to be a rare in Polish linguistics. The question of onomastic analyses of pop-cultural texts is yet another rarity. The fourth part is therefore devoted to this issue. The monograph ends with two texts functioning as a reconnaissance, concerned with chosen thematic problems in ideonymy and zoonymy (part five). They should be treated as sui generis elaboration of the main issues tackled in the book.The author has always endeavoured to put the observed onyms in a greater perspective; they are thus socioculturally contextualised, regardless of whether the observation includes theoretical issues or the empirical dimension of the onomastic analyses in specific texts and communicational spaces. The presented research proposals mainly concentrate upon possibilities of onomastic research as complementary to other domains of contemporary linguistics. What is valorised here are mainly various spaces of text linguistics, such as stylistics, linguistic genology, or discourse theory, but the author also turns to a field dear to him – historical linguistics. Therefore, a proper name here is always a sign that focuses – like a lens – tendencies and tropes of wider fields, that is, sociocultural spaces.

Polish and Russian verbs of eating. A lexical semantic study

Polskie i rosyjskie czasowniki jedzenia. Studium leksykalno-semantyczne

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

The following thesis belongs to the field of lexical-semantic studies. It aims at a confrontative description of Polish and Russian verbs relating to the physiological domain of eating. Verbs denoting the function of eating (in both Polish and Russian linguistics) remain a relatively unexplored and least described lexical category. The present work attempts to identify these verbs and perform their semantic analysis using tools created on the grounds of structural, cognitive and cultural semantics.The analysis consists of three stages. It is performed separately for each subject group. Each research stage is summarised and comparative conclusions are presented. The first stage explicates the meaning structure of Polish and Russian eating verbs, exposed through their decomposition into simpler semantic components (a componential paradigmatic analysis). Next, out of the field of eating verbs, non-synonymous expressions are singled out, grouped into synsets (sets of synonyms). Then, the basic contexts of their occurrence are identified (a componential syntagmatic analysis). The second stage illustrates the fundamental mechanisms of the occurrence of metaphorical meanings on the example of verbs central to the field of eating (a lexical subcategorization, conceptual metaphors). The third stage recreates the more important non-definitional content associated with the base verbs of eating and their expressive synonyms (semantic connotations). The observation of the most common idiomatic expressions, proverbs in which these verbs occur and a review of the representative groups of expressive synonyms have also allowed to make an attempt at reconstructing a fragment of linguistic image of eating reinforced by these synonyms.Apart from an introduction and conclusions the work includes two basic parts: theory and research which are further divided into chapters and subchapters. The first chapter is devoted to the discussion of the current state of research into verbs of eating. The second chapter presents a framework for their description. A detailed description of the selected class of verbs (analysed in three main approaches) is found in the third analytical chapter. Findings of the conducted comparative are presented in appendixes. They can be used in academic didactics in preparation of teaching and learning resources for learners of Russian or Polish as a foreign language, compiling monolingual or bilingual dictionaries as well as in translation.

The richness of the Polish language in the light of its history. T. 7

Bogactwo polszczyzny w świetle jej historii. T. 7

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

Keywords: the history of Polish language; Polish linguistics; semantics; conceptualization; orthography

The seventh volume of the highly readable series The Richness of Polish Language in the Light of Its History presents the proceedings of the all-Poland academic conference of students, doctoral candidants, and young doctors (Katowice, 9 November 2016). The authors of articles contained in the presented volume focus on such issues as: 1) the word-formation-, semantics-, and etymology-oriented description of the old (and contemporary) lexis; 2) the analysis of old texts; 3) the issues of orthographic and language correctness. The previously enumerated thematic areas constitute basis for dividing the book into three parts.The first part (Language and Word) contains articles analysing lexis, namely: the semantic development of the verb ciec (‘leak’,’trickle’, ‘drip’ etc.), the lexemes expressing sequence in the Polish language, the terminology used in scientific text from the field of linguistics at the turn of 19th and 20th centuries, the proper names in the works of Julian Tuwim, the outline of name field relating to garments in Upper Silesian dialect. The second part (Language and Text), in turn, includes articles whose authors took it upon themselves to analyze old texts. In particular: the comparison of the text of Rozmyślanie przemyskie with one of probable sources of this apocryph’s Passion part, namely, with Passio Cristi et opera Christi by Jacques de Vitry; the Polish of Jan Andrzej Morsztyn; the persuasiveness of Bolesław Prus’s column writing on the issue of teaching foreign languages; the image of Jewish family presented in a song “Mein jidisze mame”; and lingusitic markers of the employer-employee relationship based on the newspaper Echo Chełmka. The concluding third part (Language and Orthography) inquires into the following problematic: the quiestion of acronyms following the orthographic reform of 1956 and the resultant issues of spelling-related doubts voice by persons writing to language counseling centres for guidance (during the years 1958–1967 and presently). The authors of texts included in the publication prove once more that historical linguistics is a discipline which remains interesting for young language researchers whose scope of study brings us closer not only to the past epochs, but also to the present developtmental tendencies of the Polish language and culture.The present volume is addressed to all persons interested in the history of Polish – linguists, student of humanities (especially of languages) and high school students. The particular research findings and proposed solutions to the problems in question, which can be found in subsequent texts of the publication, may then be utilised during the further studies of language, culture, and humanity.