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Sándor Weöres, one of the major 20th century Hungarian poets used the symbolism connected to water and to the sea in several of his works. Living in a country where experiencing the sea was problematic, marine references of Sándor Weöres seem to be allusions to the Western literary heritage on several occasions. The article analyses the contexts of these allusions and the reflections concerning the rare occasions when Sándor Weöres’ had the opportunity to travel on the sea.
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The article touches upon the phenomenon of “implication” of the lexeme beauty in postmodern advertising, while presenting persuasive ways of the contextual placement of the same in a commercial utterance. The analytical material gathered in the form of advertisements shows that the lexeme beauty, while being intentionally inscribed in the advertising context, brings to the receiver’s mind values that are considered unique and timeless, but it also reveals the postmodern ways of semantic transformation of the lexeme’s meaning, which ways consist in desemantising, or in expanding the scope of its meaning.
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This article aims to present research on linguistic picture of „a female dog” (eng. meaning bitch), specifically a reflection what does it mean to be “a female dog” on a Polish-language websites. The article presents the most common components added to this determination. The article briefly presents a dictionary description of the female dog and its image on the dictionaries of Linde and of Doroszewski.
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This article is the result of the field research conducted in the area of the Kashubian dialect. The research concerned the Kashubian dialects’ influence on the Polish language in terms of the inflection of names. The study showed the Kashubian dialects’ interferences in terms of the use of declensional forms of nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numerals
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The theme of this article focuses on a taboo variety of the Czech National language, vulgarisms. Vulgarisms have not been precisely defined. As a possible way of differentiation between this kind of lexis and neutral expressions is their ability of the parasystemic formation and also the relativity of an users' perspektive on the evaluation of an extent of expressivity. We derived the information from the results of a questionnaire survey and from the database of the Czech National Corpus. We have proved both charakteristicfeatures on the lingustic material.
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The author describes the evolution of the formation and development of indeclinable nouns in Russian. There are captured developmental trends in this area of study from the 18th century to the beginning of the 21st century and their reflection in specialist literature. Within the individual decades of the 20th century are demon-strated: the thematic focus of the borrowed lexis and the specific manifestations of the enrichment of indeclina-ble noun classes in Russian. It is a sequel to previous outputs published by the author.
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In this work, we follow parallel with the development of hotel industry also its corresponding vocabulary. In the first part, we focus on the ethymology and semantics of the first namings of accommodation facilities. In the second part, we present various classes of neologisms in the present Czech and Russian hotel lexicons, in particular the occurence and comparative incidence of loanwords from English and other languages. We conclude with discussion of the current Russian hotel slang which is absent in the Czech language.
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The formation of the literary Polish language in Cieszyn Silesia is commonly linked to the literary works of the pastors from Kościół Jezusowy in Cieszyn. They are the authors of the first printed texts in Polish language. The papers written by protestant secondary grammar school students are important contribution to the research of the Polish regional language at the turn of the eighteenth century
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One of the expected results of the curriculum framework for grammar schools in the educational field of Language and Language Education is, among others, the fact that students are able to effectively and independently utilise various information resources (dictionaries, encyclopaedias, the internet). We conducted a survey to determine whether the given assertion in curricular documents are in accordance with current school practices. The investigation, which included 130 first-year students of the University of Ostrava Faculty of Arts in Ostrava, was conducted in September 2014. The data collected indicates that the use of information resources, primarily the Slovník spisovné češtiny pro školu a veřejnost [Dictionary of Standard Czech for Schools and the Public] and the Internetová jazyková příručka [Internet Language Guide], is insufficient at some secondary schools and certainly deserves more attention.
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The article presents methods of profiling lexeme crisis and analyzes persisted in the colloquial language of the courts of the crisis and the impact of cultural and social factors in their formation. The article shows also the dependence axiologization of the phenomenon of the conceptualization signifying him the lexeme. The analysis revealed that functions cognitive, impressive and persuasive accompanied the conceptualization. Detailed and thorough analysis has been subjected to a domain personal which appeared in the language material the most frequently. Methodology refers to the assumptions of cognitive linguistics and linguistic concept image of the world.
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Toponyms belong among the oldest living parts of human cultural heritage. Through its meaning and form, toponymic vocabulary reflects national identity of people, their history and mental processes which are mirrored in material and spiritual culture. To preserve the richest lexical material of a given language, it is necessary that the speakers protect the cultural and historical value of geographic names. While being transmitted from one language to another, toponymic terms are subject to numerous transformations and they enter the word stock of recipient languages. This article discusses transliteration and transcription of geographic names, as well as translation of toponyms, including transplantation, calques and explication.
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In her paper the author focuses on the analysis of the application of phraseology in a three-volume novel Svätopluk by Milan Ferko. She points to Ferko's intention to make the tradition of Great Moravia more popular also by linguistic means, namely, by the use of phraseological units to achieve a more detailed colouring of the story. The foregrounding of the historical is signalled by the changes of the word forms and their meaning through transformations of phraseological units in which the primary meaning is modified. Creative invention of the writer is manifested in his technique of innovating traditional phraseological units. They are substituted with semantically freer variants, preferring the ones with expressive components. In addition to the phraseological units with considerable level of expressivity, the writer uses common colloquial phraseological units, similes, sayings as well as semantically void connections of words. Functional use of phraseological units, as well as of their modifications, is a result of Ferko’s in-depth knowledge of the phraseological richness of the Slovak language and his awareness of its linguistic dynamism.
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