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Zbytki (nie)pamięci? O polskiej kulturze pamięci w glottodydaktycznym wydaniu

Author(s): Joanna Przyklenk / Language(s): Polish,German Publication Year: 0

Joanna Przyklenk in the article entitled “Excess of (not) Remembering? About the Polish Memory from the View of the Foreign Languages Teaching” made an attempt to present the interwar foreign languages teaching from the perspective of the discourse studies. The interwar source texts were taken into consideration, in particular these ones that concern teaching German as a foreign language. The collected textual data were used to describe the problem of spreading certain historical and cultural content defining the particular society. Having emphasised the cognitive aspect, the author portrayed the permeation of two discourses: the foreign language teaching and identity discourse. In the analyses she focused on presenting the conditions and aims of the foreign language teaching in the context of interwar education in Poland, at the same time showing the cultural content of foreign language teaching of the given period.

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Kształcenie oraz doskonalenie nauczycieli języka niemieckiego w Polsce w latach 1990–2015 (wybrane zagadnienia)

Author(s): Beata Karpeta-Peć / Language(s): Polish,German Publication Year: 0

The article presents selected issues concerning professional development of teachers of German in Poland within the last twenty-five years. Various models of teacher education in Europe have been included here. The first example includes Teacher Training Colleges existing in Poland in those years. Secondly, the Institute of German Studies of Warsaw University is an example of higher education of German teachers. The analysis of in-service development of German teachers involves meaningful statistics as well as selected support institutions, especially the so-called‘ multipliers’. Thus outlined is a perspective for higher education and professional development of said group of teachers.

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On limitless diversity of functional types of utterance

Author(s): Andrzej Bogusławski / Language(s): English,Russian,Polish Publication Year: 0

The author adopts the concept of “functional type of utterance” where the relevant set is based on features other than coincidental co-occurrence of utterances (as, e.g., used by someone at a certain time) or their including a specified expression (specified expressions). The concept subsumes traditional kinds of utterance such as declaratives vs. hypothetical statements, questions, promises, etc., but also, e.g., utterances where vocatives addressed to the recipient(s) are used with varying frequency (which gives rise to the corresponding subtypes of utterance). It is claimed that the existence of a closed and at the same time objectively exhaustive list of functional types of utterance depends on two alternative necessary conditions which are not and will never be satisfied. One of the conditions has a formal or mathematical character. It amounts to the presence of some contradiction in the conjunction of the following constituents: (i) the claim of non-existence of such an exhaustive objective list of types, (ii) any element of knowledge. The other necessary condition belongs to the domain of nomological/natural sciences. It would consist in our knowledge of organisms and their factual (albeit contingent) constraint which necessitates production of a finite number of functional types of utterance, on the pattern of what is proper to apprehension of sounds by creatures belonging to different species, e.g., humans or bats (as limited to a certain, varying, frequency of oscillation in the air environment). The author submits a formalized schema of the reasoning where a hierarchy of functional types and subtypes of different degrees is assumed.

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Допереводческий анализ и перевод стихотворения Марины Цветаевой «Я пришла к тебе черной полночью…»

Author(s): Anna Bednarczyk / Language(s): English,Russian,Polish Publication Year: 0

The article presents a pre-translation analysis of Marina Tsvetaeva’s poem “Ya prishla k tebe chornoy polnochyu…” and the following translation of this poem. The analysis is conducted stage by stage, which makes it possible to discuss in detail the difficulties presented by the relevant activities, and to identify possible translation dominants, as well as to indicate well-advised translation solutions. The discussion shows the usefulness of pre-translation analysis not only for the translation it precedes, but also for teaching of future translators.

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The stylistic construction of verbal imagery in poetry: shooting distance and resolution in Wilfred Owen, Marianne Moore and Philip Larkin

Author(s): Davide Castiglione / Language(s): English,Russian,Polish Publication Year: 0

The notion of imagery is central to literary criticism as it underpins some of the most palpable experiences we have when reading fictional literary texts, prose and verse alike. Yet, its practical use is fraught with impressionism as the verbal image appears based on a relativist ontology that varies with readerly differences, both intrinsic and strategic (e.g. one may have a more visual or a more auditory memory, or give emphasis to more abstract, propositional aspects of a text). As a consequence of this, the verbal image also appears substantially independent from linguistic forms, which makes it problematic for stylistic analysis. This paper addresses and undermines the latter assumption and, in doing so, sets out the basis for a stylistic model of verbal imagery. My approach is twofold: on the one hand, I identify a “nuclear” image on the basis of semantic and syntactic criteria – this I call the image-frame as opposed to more extensive realizations (i.e. image-complexes) or dynamic ones (i.e. image-scenes); on the other, I attempt to map semantico-grammatical variables onto perceptual eff ects, focusing on shooting distance and image resolution. In doing so, I draw inspiration from the complementary attempt of Kress and van Leeuwen, who in “Reading Images: the Grammar of Visual Design” (2006 (1996)) propose an array of correspondences between visual strategies and grammatical structures. All the verbal images presented and discussed in this article come from Wilfred Owen, Marianne Moore and Philip Larkin: three poets who have effectively exploited the potential of realist mimesis (i.e. a faithful reproduction of external reality) within a twentieth century aesthetics.

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Problemy walencji w tekście poetyckim

Author(s): Magdalena Danielewiczowa / Language(s): English,Russian,Polish Publication Year: 0

The article deals with creative violations of the semantic limitations of predicates in Polish poetry. Until now, this problem has not been consistently taken into account, although it opens new research perspectives in the field of linguistics and literary studies. Characteristics of the words used in a given text in terms of their valency structure allow to draw the boundary between the poetry from earlier periods and its more avant-garde forms. The way in which the problem is solved in artistic texts can also be an important criterion for distinguishing between one author’s poetic workshop and the artistic strategy of another. It also allows you to follow how the poets gradually familiarize the reader with the creative technique studied in this article, what additional tools they use to encourage him to make an interpretive effort. From the theoretical point of view, the relationship between the question of semantic-syntactic modifications in the modern poetry and the problem of metaphor, metonymy, comparison, zeugma, syllepsis and similar tropes is also interesting. In the main part of her article, the author gives examples of creative violations of the principles of deep syntax in selected poems of B. Leśmian, K. K. Baczyński and Z. Herbert. This allows us to pay attention to three different approaches to the analysed issue.

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Formy wiersza jako nośniki znaczeń

Author(s): Teresa Dobrzyńska-Janusz / Language(s): English,Russian,Polish Publication Year: 0

Investigation of verse forms and their functioning in literary texts leads to the conclusion that they may be employed as bearers of semantic values. The present paper is going to show the richness of this resource. The semantic values of various verse structures are interpreted here in terms of the semiotic categories introduced by Charles Sanders Peirce: as symptoms, symbols, or iconic signs. The basis for this kind of reflection is earlier research in Polish verse structure and a systematic study of various verse forms and their linguistic morphology conducted by a group of Polish and other Slavic researchers (the results of their collaborative work have been published in the “Comparative Slavic Metrics” series („Słowiańska Metryka Porównawcza”); a particular interest to the semantic function of verse forms is a hallmark of the volume (Semantyka form wierszowych (1988)). The semantic function of the rhythmical organization of an utterance may be found even in antiquity and can be noted in many cultures. Rhythmical utterances were treated there as standing in opposition to non-metrical everyday speech and as vehicles of such cultural values as “sacred”, “solemn”, “important for the community”. The semantic value of a metrical structure can be attributed to the fact that verse forms function as filters of various linguistic units and that the metrical organization of a text determines its stylistic characteristics. This stylistic value may be employed and interpreted in many different ways, for instance to represent the social status of the speaker or to differentiate between various literary genres. Many metrical forms perform an iconic function (which depends not only on the rhythmical organization of a text but also on its verbal and conceptual content). Some semantic values are derived from the intertextual relationships of a poem and result from the position of its verse form in the verse form system of a given literature. Verse structure may also be seen as a kind of author’s signature, and it may be employed to perform axiological functions. Many such cases have been illustrated in the paper.

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Relevance theory and poetry: An inferential analysis of Philip Larkin’s “Mr Bleaney”

Author(s): Héctor Luis Grada Martinez / Language(s): English,Russian,Polish Publication Year: 0

Recently, relevance theory has been increasingly used in literary studies. However, little research has examined the role of inferences in the interpretation of a poem. This article illustrates how pragmatics and, more precisely, relevance theory, may provide a scientific, cognitive ground to understand how poetic interpretation is constructed through the reader’s inferences. To do so, I analyse “Mr Bleaney”, by British poet Philip Larkin (1922-1985), as a case study for applying relevance theory concepts to literary interpretation. Specifically, I analyse inferences that may be drawn from the poem’s linguistically encoded word meanings, and how such inferences are influenced by the poem’s sonorous qualities, like rhythm and meter. The resulting reading emphasises the poet’s identification with a stranger, Mr Bleaney, who by the end of the poem emerges as an alter ego upon whom the poet projects his own existential fears. Because relevance theory is not prescriptive, it may also be useful in explaining dissenting readings, as shown by briefly comparing the resulting “pessimistic” interpretation of the poem with an “optimistic” one offered by Wayne Booth (2014). Thus, I suggest that inferential analysis may improve dialogue among critics dealing with the same literary work. Overall, I argue that inferential analysis based on relevance theory may help explain interpretations in poetry and thus become a firm first step towards a better understanding of other aspects of aesthetic and poetic effects.

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Metafora i świadomość w wypowiedziach poetyckich Krzysztofa Kamila Baczyńskiego

Author(s): Wacław Grzybowski / Language(s): English,Russian,Polish Publication Year: 0

On the basis of Paul Ricoeur’s, Aleksandra Okopień-Sławińskia’s, Maria Mayenowa’s and Max Black’s theories of metaphor, I undertake an attempt of interpretation of Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński’s poetry. The historical-literary context outlined by Stanisław Stabro in his study of Baczyński’s texts becomes an important help in my attempt at the uniting theory of metaphor with theory of consciousness. The combination of the concept of the literary I of Okopień-Sławińska with the Neotomistic Personalizm of Karol Wojtyła and Mieczysław Krąpiec OP allows me to delineate the concept of poetic consciousness expressed in metaphor.

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Introspektywny kokon reinterpretans. Kora Ola Ola! – latynoskie polonicum Kory Sipowicz

Author(s): Jakub Jaworski / Language(s): English,Russian,Polish Publication Year: 0

The subject of the article is the intercultural dialogue which emerges out of the musical undertaking “Kora Ola Ola!” (2003) of the Polish artist Kora Sipowicz. The collection comprises various reinterpretations of the twentieth century Polish lyrical works in a Latin arrangement, accompanied by some other Polish, Spanish and English songs, especially those formerly performed by the very artist herself with the famous Polish band, Maanam. In the composition resound convergent transatlantic echoes of mystical poetry, Graeco-Roman mythology, Christian culture and philosophical reflections. The author attempts to delimit the peculiar amalgam of individual Polish identity in this specific, intertextual and intercultural set-up by means of an interdisciplinary analysis and interpretation of particular poetic works and cultural description of their musical arrangement. Moreover there is proposed an analysis and interpretation of the poet’s language, in which the presence of occasionalisms and deictic expressions bring about deformations of the temporal structure. This kind of “estrangment” (ostranenie) contributes to a deconstruction of linguistic (or cultural) automatisms. In the context of interaction and synergy of many cultural codes imposing contradictory requirements, it may help us get closer to the transcultural condition, in terms of the theory developed by Ewa Łukaszyk.

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В воображаемом мире: лингвопоэтический анализ стихотворения Николая Гумилёва «Отравленный»

Author(s): Vitaliy Kononenko / Language(s): English,Russian,Polish Publication Year: 0

The article presents a linguopoetic interpretation of Nikolay Gumilov’s poem “Otravlennyy”. The linguistic means involved in the process of metaphorization have been investigated. The connection between the motives of Gumilov’s poetry and the Russian classical tradition has been established. Approaches to characterization of the “image of the author” have been outlined.

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The grounding function of tense/aspect morphology in lyric poetry: Analysis of Osip Mandelstam’s poems “The wind brought us solace…” and “This night, no lies...”

Author(s): Józefina Piątkowska-Brzezińska / Language(s): English,Russian,Polish Publication Year: 0

Over the last decades, serious research has been done on the correlation between tense and aspect choice and the level of information saliency in narrative discourse (Chvany1985; Ehrlich 1990; Fleischman 1990; Givón 1987; Hopper and Thomspon 1980). The novelty of our approach lies in the application of ideas developed within narrative analysis to information grounding in lyric poetry. The aim of this article is to show how tense-aspect morphology could be used for discourse-pragmatic purpose of structuring the lyric text. In the poems discussed, switching from the PFV past to the IPFV present is essential for shifting between foreground and background information.

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Перформативная стратегия баллады в лирике Тютчева

Author(s): Walerij Tiupa / Language(s): English,Russian,Polish Publication Year: 0

The paper proposes an invariant approach to the study of lyrical genres. Lyrical poem is viewed as a principally performative speech act. Behind the variety of lyrical discourses, a historically stable performative strategy is uncovered. In the case of the genre of ballad, for which narrativity is an optional element – if widely popular in the poetry of Romanticism – such a basic strategy is that of anxiety. This contention is supported by analysis of Tyutchev’s early anarrative ballads. In such poems the lyrical subject finds himself in the situation of “double existence”, at the border between two worlds: the diurnal one and the nocturnal one, the joyful one and the terrific one, the live one and the dead one. Still, what we face here is not a traditional romantic double-worldedness, but a kind of a counterpoint, a “strained” meta-unity. The conscience of the ballad-type lyrical subject is a catastrophic conscience of someone to be sacrificed. In Tyutchev’s anarrative ballads such a conscience is not masked by a fantastic plot, but presented in its pure form.

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Discourse new entities and composition of lyric poem: Foreground as the most informative part of discourse

Author(s): Gennadij Zeldowicz / Language(s): English,Russian,Polish Publication Year: 0

According to (Сильман 1977), the main compositional divide in lyrical discourse is that between presentation of the author’s emotional/mental experience, which normally constitutes the backgrounded part of the text, and some generalization implying discovery of a significant truth and/or change in the author’s attitude towards the world, which in most cases becomes the foreground. While in general this distinction may be marked by a vast range of linguistic devices, it is hypothesized in the article that one of the major characteristic features of the foreground of lyrical poem is its strive for greater informativeness, and it is manifested, inter alia, by considerably higher incidence of discourse new entities in foregrounded fragments. This claim is supported by counts based on analysis of 100 outstanding poems written mostly in Russian.

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POLSKA NOWELA MASUCCIA (ZBIÓR NOWEL; IL NOVELLINO, N. 42) WOBEC NARRACJI GALLA ANONIMA: MITYZACJA HISTORII Z WYGNANIEM W TLE

Author(s): Barbara Marczuk / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Masuccio’s 42nd novella, narrating the story of the cruel “ Polishqueen”, is considered to be completely fictional. In my paper I put forward the thesis that the protagonist of the story is a historical figure: Judyta Maria (1047–1105), the second wife of Prince Władysław Herman. This is evidenced by the fact that Masuccio’s narrative in many points coincides with the version included in the Polish Chronicle of Gallus A nonymus. In both cases, the history of the queen, with exile as a leading motif, is subject to the procedure of mythification. The analysis of this process is based on the methodology proposed in the works of Mircea Eliade.

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FRANCUSKI PRZEKŁAD TEATRU OKRUCIEŃSTW HERETYKÓW (1588) RICHARDA VERSTEGANA – CZYLI PODRÓŻ DO WARSZTATU XVI-WIECZNEGO POLEMISTY

Author(s): Dariusz Krawczyk / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

This paper aims to understand and explain the motivations that drove Richard Verstegan to propose in one volume a double translation of his famous work Theatrum crudelitatum hereticorum nostri temporis (original edition of 1587, French translation of 1588). It will constitute a kind of visit to the workshop of a Catholic polemicist installed in Antwerp and intending his writings to be spread especially in England of Elisabeth I and in France of Henri III. It will explain that it was not only the financial, political and polemical factors which pushed the author to publish such an editorial oddity, but also the aesthetic ones, which influence the reception of the message transmitted by the book.

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CARLO GOLDONI I JEGO EGZOTYCZNA PODRÓŻ NA WSCHÓD

Author(s): Jolanta Dygul / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

In 1731–1766, the first edition of a multi-volume work by Thomas Salmon, an English traveler, entitled Modern History or the Present State of all Nations. Describing Their Respective Situations, Persons, Habits, Animals and Minerals (London 1717–1738), translated into Italian, was published in Venice. In one of his volumes, the author discussed the history and reality of Persia, which was later borrowed by Carlo Goldoni seeking new inspirations for his theatre repertoire. Goldoni used a lot of information from this historical source and some details were almost literally quoted in his three tragicomedies, set in this exotic country. In 1753, the playwright achieved such a great success of La sposa Persiana that following the request of the Venice audience, Goldoni wrote two more episodes in the next years: Ircana in Julfa (1756) oraz Ircanain Ispaan (1757). The Venetian audience could watch in the exotic Persian setting the adventures of a wild and passionate slave named Ircana, played by a talented Florentine actress Caterina Bresciani. The aim of the article is to show how in the text, but also on the Italian stage, the world of the Orient – fashionable in the 18th century – was reproduced and brought to life.

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UCIECZKA Z MROCZNEGO KOSZMARU, CZYLI DROGA DO WOLNOŚCI KSIĘŻNEJ C***

Author(s): Łukasz Szkopiński / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Histoire intéressante de Madame la Duchesse de C*** (1783) by Stéphanie Félicité de Genlis, previously published as a part of Adèle et Théodore, ou Lettres sur l’éducation (1782), tells the story of an Italian aristocrat imprisoned for nine years in a castle dungeon by her jealous husband who had faked her death. The aim of the present paper is to analyze the way in which the author describes the Duchess’s long struggle in her prison, with a special emphasis put on the particularly meaningful motifs of light and darkness. The second part of the article focuses on the consequences which this traumatic experience had on the victim and her approach towards life as well as on her thoughts concerning her turbulent past, her relationship with her husband and her own mistakes.

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WYPRAWA JEANA DE LÉRY DO BRAZYLII (1557) – REALIZACJA MARZEŃ CZY PODRÓŻ STRACONYCH NADZIEI?

Author(s): Dorota Szeliga / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

In 1578, twenty years after his return from an expedition to Antarctic America, Jean de Léry published his History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Also Called America. A group of Protestants from Geneva had been invited by Villegagnon, Knight of Malta to Fort Coligny in Guanabara Bay. This article is an attempt to analyze the causes that led to the failure of the French colony in Brazil. The religious conflicts that occurred on the spot, transferred from France, show how complicated the spiritual life was at the time.

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JUANA MÉNDEZA NIETO PODRÓŻ PRZEZ ŻYCIE – DYSKURS AUTOBIOGRAFICZNY MIĘDZY FIKCJĄ A RZECZYWISTOŚCIĄ

Author(s): Katarzyna Płaczek / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The aim of this paper is to analyse particularities of the autobiographical discourse in the first part of Medical Discourses (Discursos medicinales) by Juan Méndez Nieto. It presents the circumstances in which this unusual treatise was created, and comments on the peculiarity of its structure in terms of a possible influence of the picaresque genre, the fundamental model of autobiography in Spanish literature in the 17th century. It also focuses on the importance of the concept of a journey for the structure and interpretation of the text.

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