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Słownik mowy ciała Polaków

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

Communication between people takes place at two, usually parallel, levels. One of them is a verbal communication, the other one – a non‑verbal one, conducted with the use of means other than words. These two types of communication should be understood in the situational and cultural context. This publication focuses on the kinetic code, which, according to the scientists, includes conventionalized movements performed during communication by: 1) hands (gestures), 2) face muscles (facial expressions), 3) head, trunk and legs (body posture).Attempts to organise the conventionalised gesture and mimic behaviours of certain linguisticand cultural communities in the form of a dictionary have been made by various countries– therefore their authors are foreigners. The presented dictionary has been prepared by a Polewho within the scope of her academic interests has been involved in nonverbal communication of the Slavs. The author intended to provide the dictionary users with material that should enable them to better understand the body language of the Poles – a product of the Polish culture.The publication contains a description of the conventional gestures, facial expressions andpostures, referred to as kinetic signs, that support the verbal communication. It is arranged inthe form of thematic groups covering signs which are the same or similar in semantic terms.Most of the discussed signs are obligatory – all persons who participate in the communicationprocess must therefore know how to use them. Other signs, being rude and “unparliamentary”, are optional, and well‑mannered persons do not use them at all. However these persons should know their meaning in their best interest. This knowledge decides on the degree of the communication competences of the communication participants.Apart from the Introduction and the List of entries, the dictionary consists of the Table of contents; the List of applied abbreviations, signs and symbols; the Thematic index; the Alphabetical index and the References.All entries of the Dictionary of the body language of the Poles include the following fixedelements: sing name; sign form; sign content; context, i.e. the scope of the usage of a particular sign; information on the relationship existing between the sign and the verbal layer; set phrases or collocations which record gestures, facial expressions and postures comprehensible to the Poles and a photograph illustrating a particular sign.The presented dictionary is addressed mainly to Polish teachers; academic workers of institutions and departments of foreign philologies in Poland and in other countries; Polish philology students who learn Polish as a foreign language; linguists; ethnolinguists; culture experts; experts in glottodidactics; literature translators and foreigners who learn Polish. This dictionary may also be used to a varying extent by: educators, psycholinguists, etiquette experts and anyone interested in relations between the verbal and non‑verbal communication.

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Wybieram gramatykę! Dla cudzoziemców zaawansowanych na poziomie C i dla studentów kierunków filologicznych. Wyd. 3. popr.

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

The textbook is intended for people who already familiarised themselves (at least with the rudiments) of the Polish grammatical system, for people to whom this system is no longer alien and who went through the process of overcoming the difficulties of Polish morphology. The author focuses on the practical application of grammar. The book consists of four parts each of which presents the particular levels of the language: the sound, inflectional, word-formative and syntactical systems. Each part is accompanied by a reference index of the equivalents of basic Polish grammatical terms in four languages: English, French, German and Russian. The index is arranged according to subjects. Grammatical information should be treated as a synthetic presentation of a repository of the grammatical instruments and mechanisms of the Polish language. By indicating the grammatical regularities and the mechanisms of the Polish language the author directs the reader’s attention also to more subtle phenomena, the niceties of grammar, the awareness of which and the familiarity with which as well as the purposeful application in communicative practice render the language which is studied more and more familiar.The difficulty curve of the exercises is varied: apart from easy exercises there are also such exercises which demand considerable intellectual effort, so that the reader who engages them does not fall into the trap of repetitive rote-learning and that his or her approach to the tasks that he or she is set is creative, that the reader who solves grammatical problems of varying complexity does not perceive himself or herself as the object of study but a partner of this fascinating form of social interaction that is the process of acquiring a language. At the other side of the book – by the intermediation of the author and her suggestions as well as of the suggestions of an optional teacher, who is going to engage directly with the student – is the LANGUAGE itself and the cultural heritage of Polish people which is expressed in this language. Hence the selection of the literary texts (which constitute an exemplification of the particular grammatical phenomena), which were drawn from the Polish literary output. These excerpts manifest a linguistic, stylistic, content-based, emotional and (partially) chronological variety.

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KALIGRAFIJA I ISLAMSKA KULTURA

Author(s): Annemarie Schimmel / Language(s): Bosnian

Kada sam 1979. godine zamoljena da održim predavanja na Kevorkian Lectures Foundation u akademskoj 1981–82. godini, zadana tema bila je kaligrafija. S golemom radošću sam prihvatila temu, zamišljajući kako bih mogla, kroz četiri predavanja, govoriti o raznovrsnim kaligrafskim stilovima i o razvitku arapskog pisma u njegovim različitim formama, od ranog kufskog, do modernog kaligrafskog slikanja. Otkrila sam, međutim, kako je, unatoč brojnim najnovijim izdanjima o islamskoj kaligrafiji, od kojih najveći broj njih odlikuje pretjeran broj slika, malo toga napisano o stanju kaligrafije ili njenom prakticiranju. Bio je prisutan vidan nedostatak izvješća o religijskom značaju kaligrafije unutar muslimanske kulture, o temi koja je tako bliska mome zanimanju za izučavanjem sufizma. Nadalje, prepuštanje arapskih i perzijskih pjesnika igrama riječi i zagonetki, zasnovanim na kaligrafskoj terminologiji, kod zapadnjačkih istraživača više je izazivalo prijezir nego poštovanje, a o užitku u tome da i ne govorimo, tako da mi se činilo kako i ovo pitanje zaslužuje posebno razmatranje.

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Słownik pisarzy śląskich. T. 5

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

The present volume of A dictionary of Silesian writers, similarly as the previous ones, contains biographical notes and discussions of the works of persons who, from the earliest times up to the present, co-created the history of Silesian literature, writing in Polish, German, Czech or Latin. In principle, the biographical notes present only deceased authors, including those whose relations with Silesia were only temporal, nevertheless still explicit and significant as far as their literary output is concerned.The work aims at demonstrating the multiculturalism and multilingualism of Silesian authors, presenting and systematizing current state of knowledge, as well as at being an indication and encouragement to further studies that would facilitate the development of methodologically up-to-date synthesis of Silesian literature.A dictionary of Silesian writers is a kind of factual and bibliographical guide for academics of various specializations, it can serve as a teaching aid for secondary school learners, facilitating the implementation of objectives connected with regional education. It is also addressed at all enthusiasts of Silesian culture.

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Linguarum silva. T. 6: Problemy języka i tekstu w perspektywie historycznej i współczesnej

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

The sixth volume of “Linguarum Silva”, entitled The Problems of Language and Text in the Historical and Contemporary Perspective, follows other volumes published so far (Opposition – Contradiction – Contrast in Language and Text (2012), Word – Meaning – Relation in Language and Text (2013), Variability – Stability – Diversity in the Early and Contemporary Polish Language (2014), On the Problems of Language and Text (2015), and Word – Value – Quality in Language and Text (2016)), and it discusses the problems connected both with the history of the Polish language, as well as with the contemporary linguistic issues. The authors in their research focus on early texts, or they subject to analysis contemporary texts of various kinds, such as advertisements, television programmes, or recently occurring new internet genres.The present volume is composed of two parts. The first one (The problems of language and text in a historical perspective) contains three articles that deal with linguistic problems considered on a diachronic level and subject to analysis early texts – the topics of these articles encompass such issues as the emotionality of scientific texts from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the reformation of the Polish orthography in 1956, and the oldest Polish textbooks for teaching the English language.The second part of the volume - The problems of language and text in a contemporary perspective - comprises seven articles which are the studies into the problems connected with contemporary language, as well as academic reflections upon contemporary texts, such as the reportages by Ryszard Kapuściński, social advertisements, selected television programmes, as well as a new genre of internet texts referred to as verbal massacre.The present publication is addressed at all readers interested in the problems of language and text, especially language historians, media experts, and genologists.

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La méthode d’enseignement à distance dans le développement de la compétence rédactionnelle en langue étrangère

Author(s): Beata Gałan / Language(s): French

The subject of this work is a reflection on the effectiveness of the distance learning method in the glottodidactic process. The author concentrates upon: an analysis of properties of the remote method basing on various forms of distance learning, an overview of information and communication technologies (ICT) used in education, a reflection on the editing process in a foreign language, and a discussion about didactic and social aspects of an educational virtual space (a virtual classroom). On the grounds of theoretical considerations, empirical studies were conducted; their main purpose was an observation of properties and an evaluation of the efficiency of the distance learning method in developing competencies in foreign language writing. In the studies, the hybrid approach – combining quantitative and qualitative analyses –was utilised. In order to verify the effectiveness of the distance learning method, a didactic experiment was carried out, which made it possible to compare the results achieved in the traditional system and in the virtual space. The quantitative analysis was supplemented with a number of reflections on the specificity of the distance learning method and the virtual classroom.Consisting of the pilot study and the main study, the experiment was conducted within the framework of higher education, in a composition course included in the “Practical knowledge of French” module. One group of students starting to learn French as an at least second foreign language participated in the experiment. The aim of the study was to examine the influence of the distance learning method on the development of writing skills in a foreign language. In order to compare the educational effects, a half of the classes in the course were conducted in a classic form, and another half – in the remote learning system by means of the Moodle learning platform. Non-final grades (ones received in the course during the term) became the research material necessary to compare the results, and the obtained data were subject to statistical processing. The pilot study brought comparable results of average grades, but it also provided valuable guidelines concerning the untypical dispersion of the results. In the main study, conducted on 47 people, an ordinary comparison of average grades also suggested a similar efficiency of both methods. However, the study of significance of the differences by means of the t test revealed that the online method proves to be more effectivein a statistically relevant manner, but it brings measurable benefits only to a specific target group, using adequate learning strategies.Additional information was provided by the qualitative analysis. It demonstrated that – despite rather frequent and regular Internet usage, also for educational purposes — students’ attitude to distance learning is relatively varied. Student point to both advantages and opportunities offered by the distance learning method (development of autonomy and learning strategies, access to various didactic materials), and its limitations (lack of direct contact with the teacher, lowered motivation). The interviewees’ responses clearly emphasise not only the differences between the classic method and the distance learning method, but also the specificity of working in a remote system, which requires a huge amount of self-discipline, regularity, and involvement. The key to success in the distance learning process is a set of competencies and skills related to learning strategies (high level of autonomy, self-discipline, autonomy in problem solving, conscious time management, regularity). Such a set is defined in the work as the habitus of the virtual classroom.An evaluation of the effectiveness of the distance learning method is an obvious priority of academic teachers in the light of virtualisation of higher education. The conducted research provided significant information concerning the efficiency and specificity of the distance learning method, which will make it possible to use this method in a more conscious manner in the practice of academic teaching. However, the classic method still remains the privileged one, and the teacher–student relation — a relevant feature of this kind of teaching practice. Nevertheless, the potential of the distance learning method turns out to be significant. The optimal solution is, certainly, the hybrid method, combining direct contact with distance learning elements. To sum up, the main conclusion emerging from the conducted study is that the distance learning method proves to be effective only to a certain target group, members of which use learning strategies that are appropriate to this type of work.

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Interdisciplinary encounters: Dimensions of interpreting studies

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

Interdisciplinary encounters: Dimensions of interpreting studies brings together researchers, scholars, practitioners, interpreters and interpreter trainers, who share their research results, perspectives and experiences regarding the interdisciplinarity in the field of interpreting studies. This interdisciplinarity is well reflected in the range of topics covered and research questions asked. From the interplay of interpreting and linguistics to the interplay of interpreting and psychology, to mark quite arbitrarily only two distinct epistemologies, and hence distinct methodologies. // “This volume is an excellent addition to the Interpreting Studies literature. The cutting-edge research presented by a wide range of international experts demonstrates the strength of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of interpretation. The volume will be of great benefit to educators, students of interpreting as well as experienced practitioners.”– Robert G. Lee, Senior Lecturer in BSL and Deaf Studies, University of Central Lancashire, UK

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Ocenianie i pomiar biegłości językowej. Wybrane aspekty teoretyczne i praktyczne

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

The volume deals with various aspects of student assessment and language proficiency in the glottodidactic process, as well as problems faced by foreign language teachers at different stages of education. This volume includes texts by Authors who are researchers of learning and teaching processes at an academic level, as well as those who are more oriented towards practical considerations regarding the evaluation of language proficiency in the context of language learning at university classes or at school. The monograph covers two main thematic areas: the issue of different forms of evaluation and validation processes of language measurement tools, and presents the problems faced by teachers in specific cases, illustrating them with possible solutions through the use of innovative forms of student evaluation. The monograph includes interesting material both in theoretical and practical aspects. This volume is aimed at teachers of glottodactics at different levels of foreign language teaching, who are offered new solutions for the evaluation of language proficiency in different learning contexts.

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Wyzwania glottodydaktyki polonistycznej. "Życie zaczyna się po sześćdziesiątce…"

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

The authors (linguists, literary scholars, culture experts, comparatists, Slavists, speech language therapists, doctors) respond to the challenges of Polish glottodidactics with regard to six subject areas: developing linguistic competence, integration, cultural mediation, literary genres, special needs of learners and teaching practice. The volume initiates the series Studia Glottodydaktyczne [Glottodidactic Studies] prepared by POLONICUM at the University of Warsaw.

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„Zmieniając siebie – zmieniam świat”. Gloria E. Anzaldúa i jej pisarstwo zaangażowanego rozwoju w ujęciu społeczno-kulturowym

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

This book is devoted to the analysis of life, work and philosophy of writing of Gloria E. Anzaldúa – a renowned Mexican-American writer and activist. The interdisciplinary character of the monograph results from the fact that it joins various research perspectives: American, postcolonial, Border and gender and queer studies. It investigates significant social, political and cultural problems concerning the Latino/a Diaspora in the US, simultaneously concentrating on the literary value of the analyzed works. The great value of the book is the translation of poems and fragments of her eponymous work Borderlands/La Frontera made by the author, because so far no one in Poland has taken up the task of translating Anzaldúa’s work. Moreover, despite the extensive subject matter covered here, the book is written in a concise and accessible language, which makes it open to a very wide circle of potential recipients: students of English philology, international relations, history and gender studies; academics of these disciplines; and any readers interested in interdisciplinary humanities, gender issues or minority literature. It is also worth mentioning that there is no material on Gloria Anzaldúa on the Polish publishing market, and the monograph devoted to her has not been published yet anywhere in the world – there only exist numerous articles dealing with this subject which are scattered in books and scientific journals. // Publikacja jest poświęcona analizie twórczości i filozofii pisarstwa Glorii E. Anzaldúy - znanej amerykańskiej pisarki meksykańskiego pochodzenia. Interdyscyplinarny charakter monografii wynika z tego, że wpisuje się ona zarówno w nurt badań nad Pograniczem (Border studies), studia amerykanistyczne, postkolonialne, jak i gender oraz queer studies. Poruszane są w niej ważne problemy społeczne, polityczne i kulturowe dotyczące mniejszości latynoskiej w USA, a przy tym zwraca się uwagę na walory literackie omawianych utworów. Dużą wartość książki stanowią tłumaczenia wierszy oraz fragmentów jej epokowego dzieła Borderlands/La Frontera dokonane przez Autorkę, ponieważ dotąd w Polsce nikt nie podjął się przekładu twórczości Anzaldúy. Pomimo obszernej tematyki jest to pozycja napisana językiem zwięzłym i konkretnym, unikalna ze względu na bardzo szeroki krąg potencjalnych odbiorców, którymi mogą być studenci i studentki filologii obcych, studiów międzynarodowych, historii i studiów genderowych; pracownicy naukowi tych dyscyplin; czytelnicy zainteresowani interdyscyplinarnymi badaniami humanistycznymi, tematyką gender czy literaturą mniejszości. Ponadto warto zauważyć, że na polskim rynku wydawniczym brakuje jakichkolwiek materiałów dotyczących Glorii E. Anzaldúy, a w piśmiennictwie światowym nie powstała dotąd monografia jej poświęcona - liczne artykuły dotykające tej tematyki są rozproszone w książkach i periodykach naukowych.

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Polska terminologia unijna i brukselizmy. Próba systematyzacji

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

An original attempt at systematizing the terminology used in official documents published in the Polish language by European Union institutions and the “brusselisms” forming in parallel – the equivalents of EU terms that appear in standard Polish. A corpus of EU terms has been used for the analysis of structural and semantic relations between the original words usually created in English and/or French and the neologisms coined in the Polish language as a receiver language.

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Kultura popularna w nauczaniu polszczyzny jako języka obcego. Wstęp do kulturoznawstwa glottodydaktycznego

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

The subject of this book situates it at the interface between cultural anthropology and glottodidactics, the so-called glotto-cultural studies. The author argues that is should be recognized as a new subdiscipline of Polish glottodidactics and, referring to the achievements of the glotto-cultural studies of the Warsaw “Polonicum,” presents his own vision of teaching popular culture.

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Filozofia filologii

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

The autors of the articles look for the answers to the questions of “What is philology? What it used to be or could be?”, “Who is a philologist and what do they do?”, “How does a philologist justify and legitimise what they do?” from various complementary perspectives: the history of the discipline and its modern developments, classic texts of philosophy and the most recent literary studies practices, a personal love for words and a sense of responsibility for the shared world. These considerations are as much meta-scientific as they are identity-based, arising from the need to answer the question about the role of the contemporary scholar of the humanities.

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Humanizm między Wschodem a Zachodem

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

The publication encompasses European literature accentuating Polish literary activity. The articles pertain to the cultural dialogue between Eastern (Greek) and Western (Latin) cultures, the dialogue in Southern Slavdom via the Habsburg Serb centre in Karłowice, the cultural and literary activity of Jan Zamoyski and Fabian Sebastian Klonowic, thematic inclinations of Baroque poets (Andrzeja Morsztyn, Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski, Samuel Twardowski) as well as Juliusz Słowacki’s mystical works and literary activity in the interwar period.

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Czytanie Miłosza. O trzech postaciach ideologii estetycznej

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

It is the first attempt to use de Man’s concept in the analysis of Polish modernist literature perceived as cultural formation of the 20th century. The features and peculiarities of Miłosz’s texts are pondered mainly theoretically and not in terms of historical poetics. The author analyses metaphorical and rhetorical reading, allegory and irony as well as three forms of aesthetic ideology: metalepsis, synecdoche and mimesis.

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Wykłady o aspekcie polskiego czasownika

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

The author describes various logical and linguistic oppositions which influence the choice between a perfective and imperfective verb, verb prefixes and aspectual classes. The description of events and the narrative are considered the main functions of the perfective aspect. The use of the imperfective aspect in legal texts, such as criminal-law codes, is also discussed in the work.

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Znaki czy nie znaki? Tom 1

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

A presentation of different attitudes towards the term “sign.” An analysis of syntactics, that is, a combination of linguistic signs, and the place of this branch of knowledge in the system of linguistics. A discussion of the structure of discourse and issues concerned with non-linguistic signs, including the relations between body language and belonging to a given culture, concepts of national body languages, as well as theoretical and methodological problems connected with the humanities’ turn towards semiotics of culture and the possibility of conducting phraseological studies from this perspective.

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Ernest Hemingway

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

This collection of essays reflects the directions of contemporary criticism of Hemingway’s prose and represents diverse critical strands and approaches. Aiming at critical variety over consensus, the authors demonstrate the rich legacy of the master from Key West and hope to convince the reader that Hemingway’s prose can still hold its appeal.

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Literackie obrazy kultury. Perspektywa glottodydaktyczna

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

The texts included in the volume are concerned with using literary works which contain important cultural content in teaching Polish as a foreign language. The book is a small anthology of texts portraying Polish culture as well as valuable lesson scripts.

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Атонската книжовна традиция в разпространението на Кирило-Методиевските извори (= Кирило-Методиевски студии. Кн. 7)

Author(s): Konstantinos Nihoiritis / Language(s): Bulgarian

This book is dedicated to three important Old Bulgarian and Greek sources, connected with the names of Cyril and Methodius: the Service for Cyril the Philosopher; the Long vita of Clement of Ohrid and the Byzantine Hymnographic Cycle in honour of Clement of Ohrid.

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