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The article is a review of eight studies in which, with varying intensity and different purpose, the expression media discourse has been used. Furthermore, the article includes two important postulates. The first one being to exclude fiction texts, which are of a dominant autotelic function, from the media discourse analysis. The second one – to revise the opinion that the Internet discourse is a homogeneous structure. Hypertext discourse seems to be a crucial and instrumental category which overlaps with the media discourse, being, however, more precise in nature. The author concludes that media discourse is a type of a one-way communication through the mass media, where the sender is institutionalized, and the audience is the recipient. The message requires transceiver devices and is characterized by progressing iconisation. The objective of the sender is to direct social attention and model the views of his/her audience. The press discourse, the radio discourse, the television discourse and the hypertext discourse can be distinguished within the media discourse framework, in accordance with the type of data transmission. Semiotically, this type of communication is located in the mediasphere and displays a combination of three areas of signs: iconography, “sonophere” (sphere of sound) and logosphere, while eliminating the fourth area, the “galenosphere” (sphere of silence).
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The paper summarizes the ethno-linguistic research on the Polish words (understood as the names of Polish values, both positive and negative), and the Polish phrases (idioms and quotations seen as elements of Polish collective memory which are supposed to be explanatory instruments in the process of description of the Polish culture or, for instance, in creation of the self-portrait of a Pole). The main part of the paper is a presentation of the author’s research inspired by Anna Wierzbicka’s theory of the key words to the cultures and discussion on rules and methods of recognizing the key words and arranging them in a culturally motivated hierarchy. The author perceives the key words – in accordance with the principles of the cognitive semantics – as a linguistic expressions which constitute access sites to an entire network of culturally profiled notions. She claims that the important part of the network of Polish notions is, in the term of cognitive semantics, “profiled” and in other words “programmed” by democratic ideas of the old Polish society: the Polish noblemen (szlachta). By means of the analysis of a few texts, the author proves that there is a connection between the notions of democratic rights of liberty (wolność ) and equality (równość ) and terms and notions repeatedly used in Polish self-description: willfulness (swawola), anarchy (anarchia), rebelions (bunty), envy (zazdrość, zawiść ). Another link is found between the democratic institution of Polish sejm/sejmik (parliament) which is well established in culture and in language and characterized by speeches delivered from different points of view, and the notions of Polish quarrels (kłótnie), strifes (swary) and disputes (spory).
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The purpose of this article is to present the academic profile of Professor Alina Kowalska and to commemorate her as a researcher engaged in scholarly work at the University of Silesia. She was among the people who built the Institute of Polish Studies in Katowice (and earlier in Sosnowiec) from the ground up, and therefore determined its character. Her research interests pivoted around two mutually intertwined issues: the evolution of the general language and evolution of the Silesian Polish in particular. Over time, she started to pay more and more attention to the issues of the Silesian region. Her works were characterized by diligence in language documentation and by research objectivity.
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The article is a type of reconnaissance. The author aims at providing a description of the limits of language, including the structure and meaning, focusing particularly on the issues relating to the limitations of speech. The author seeks the answer the following question: what and to what extent can be said? In close relationship with the analyzed problem author explicates selection features of the verbs of speaking. On this basis, the author creates a classification of sentences.
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The article traces the evolution of the term coming out: one of the constituent elements of the LGBT discourse. The evolution proceeds in the following phases described in the article: a communication event – a speech genre – an art (literature, film) genre, while maintaining the name coming out, also in the Polish language, yet with the parallel search for its Polish equivalents and synonyms.
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The article describes three spheres of culture which can be used as sources of texts for linguistics classes, evoked by the nicknames mentioned in the title: Pudelek.pl (a gossip website) as a source of mass culture texts, "Polityka" (a widely-read opinion weekly) as an example of the political discourse, and finally Jeremi Przybora (a perfectionist lord of the Polish language) as an example of the highbrow culture texts. The article results from author’s own teaching experience. She introduces vocabulary of the public discourse, distinguishing between the “flagship” words, the winged words, and the words that changed their due to the influence of political correctness (i.e. words which were “turned inside out”). Particularly important here seem to be the winged words which, characterized by their condensed form, are able to built both cultural continuity and group identity. Therefore, amongst the selected texts are also those by/about the persons related to university.
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The article takes up the subject of the contemporary variations in the case government of certain Polish verbs which result from the replacement of objects in the genitive with objects in the accusative. Contemporarily, this phenomenon is treated as a deviation from the accepted norm, despite it being observed not only in the spoken language, but also in written texts and in different kinds of mass media (press, TV, the Internet). Nevertheless, language normativists do not allow the variance (acc. // gen.) of the object. As it has been corroborated with the use of historical linguistic analysis, the discussed phenomenon is not new in the Polish language, but stems from a constant tendency to optimize the syntax, which in this case results in the unification of the direct object in the form of the accusative. This process, taking place since the 16th century, has led to the change of the case government (from genitive to accusative) of hundreds of Polish verbs. This process was being restrained in the 20th century by quite vigorous normative actions. The continuous conflict between superior directives and the natural tendencies of language causes, on the one hand, considerable problems for native speakers and, on the other, leads to an even bigger discrepancy between written norm and common usage.
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This article deals with the description of Croatian lands in the road notes and letters of Russian academicians, specialists in Slavic studies in the first half of XIX century. Such Russian academicians as Osip Bodyansky, Fyodor Chizhov, Izmail Sreznevsky, Petr Preis and Viktor Grigorovich during the visits to Croatia tried to find the material connected with Croatian language, culture and history. They also had a communication with activists of Illyrian movement which began to spread among the Croatians at that period. Their notes also contain the description of the different sides of the life of common Croatian people. The notes and letters of Russian academicians are very interesting and important source of the history of Russian Slavic studies, Croato-Russian relations and the history of Croatia of the first half of XIX century.
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Odišiel profesor Péter Király Životné jubileum prof. PhDr. Júlie Dudášovej-Kriššákovej, DrSc. Themes of Polemical Theology Across Early Modern Literary Genres / Polemicko-teologické témy v žánroch staršej literatúry DUDÁŠOVÁ-KRIŠŠÁKOVÁ, J.: Fonologický systém slovanských jazykov z typologického hľadiska. Prešov: Vydavateľstvo Prešovskej univerzity 2014. 224 s. ŽEŇUCHOVÁ, K.: Zbierka ľudovej prózy Samuela Cambela. Prameň k výskumu rozprávačskej tradície na Slovensku. Bratislava: Slavistický ústav SAV 2014, 462 s. ŽEŇUCH, P.: Источники византийско- -славянской традиции и культуры в Словакии. Roma – Bratislava – Košice 2013. 482 s.; ŽEŇUCH, P.: K dejinám cyrilskej písomnej kultúry na Slovensku. Nitra 2015. 175 s. Reprezentatívne dielo Ústavu pre kultúru vojvodinských Slovákov (SKLABINSKÁ, M. – MOSNÁKOVÁ, K.: Slováci v Srbsku z aspektu kultúry. Nový Sad: Ústav pre kultúru vojvodinských Slovákov 2012. 400 s.; 2013. 407 s.) KREJČÍ, K.: Literatury a žánry v evropské dimenzi. Nejen česká literatura v zorném poli komparatistiky. Ed. M. Černý. Praha 2014. 664 s. KUCZYŃSKA, M. – STRADOMSKI, J. (eds.): Cyrylometodejski komponent kultury chrześcijańskej Słowian w regionie karpackim. Hystoria, tradycje, odwołania. Krakowsko-Wileńskie Studia Slawistyczne. Vol. 8. Kraków: Instytut Filologii Słowiańskiej UJ, Wydawnictwo «Scriptum», 2013. ВАРБОТ, Ж. Ж.: Исследования по русской и славянской этимологии. Москва – Санкт-Петербург: Нестор-История 2012. 648 s. Aktyvni resursy sučasnoji ukrajinsjkoji nominaciji: Ideohrafičnyj slovnyk novoji leksyky / Aktívne zdroje súčasnej ukrajinskej lexiky: Ideografický slovník novej lexiky. Zost. Je. A. Karpilovsjka, L. P. Kysľuk, N. F. Klymenko, V. I. Krytsjka, T. K. Puzdyrjeva, Ju. V. Romaňuk. Kyjiv: TOV „KMM“, 2013. 416 s. Neobvyklá encyklopédia (NEVRLÝ, M.: Encyklopédia ukrajinskej literatúry a kultúry. Sládkovičovo 2014, 478 s.) Zo správy o činnosti v Slavistickom ústave Jána Stanislava SAV za rok 2014 Zo zasadnutia Slovenského komitétu slavistov a prípravného výboru Druhého kongresu slovenských slavistov
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Article is dedicated to the philosophy of Constantine the Philosopher from Thessaloniki, author contradicts the assessment of this philosophy in K. Pavlovičová contributions.
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The presented study deals with lexical origin of some hydronyms of the Hornád river basin which are compared to parallel names in other Slavonic languages.
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The article analyzes the reception of different elements of the saints Cyril’s and Methodius traditions in modern Galicia. The author examines the history of perception Cyrillic as Slavic alphabet, Church Slavonic as the sacred language of the Slavs; the Eastern rite as the embodiment of Slavonic rite and personalities of the saint Cyril and Methodius as educators and apostles of Slavic peoples. Also the author touches the problem of the reading of the book of this thematic among the Galicians and of the external influences on the representations of the cultural and religious heritage of the saints Cyrill and Methodius.
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The importance of this no-knowing documents from Saris from circa 1775 is that: it is a rare official ecclesiastical and administrative memory, which testifies above the tolerance and respect among Slovaks, Hungarians, Germans and Ruthens who they lived side by side. From the document it shows that there was a close link between the Church, respectively local spiritual and believers, it was manifested in the use of languages. The seats of the Latin (Roman Catholic) parishes has been used Slovak language (with a few exceptions, when they used the Hungarian and German) and at the seats of the Uniate parishes (Greek Catholic) were registered Ruthenian language. This stereotype was transferred to general awareness, but at the lists of Zemplínska stool from the same period this rule does not apply fully, which is obvious from Barkoci visitation from the 18th century.
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The present essay offers a critical review of a recent book by Erika Juríková on the 17th-18th century Latin panegyrical production of the Trnava university press. While commenting on the formal flaws and methodological shortcomings of this publication, the author attempts to formulate his own views of some of the principal questions connected with research into the Latin panegyrical literature of Slovakia. Particular attention is paid to the matters of interpretation and to editorial principles.
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