Is There Anything Left to be Told About John? The Future of Johannine Character Studies and the Literary Concept of Bildung

Author(s): Teodor Ioan Colda / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

In this paper, the author suggests that Johannine scholarship can be enriched in the future with the contribution of scholars from different parts of the world, sometimes even from areas where Johannine scholarship does not have a long tradition. He also briefly advances a new approach to character studies in the Fourth Gospel, emphasizing the possibility of engaging the modern literary genre of Bildung/Bildungsroman in the study of the gospel narratives, succinctly arguing for the legitimacy of his approach.

The Migration of Pragmatic Principles on Language Teaching

Author(s): Mihaela Georgiana Manasia / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This paper deals with language education, field constantly evolving, sometimes by simple adjustments, while at other times by much more radical ones. It is a fact that we live in an accelerated world, our lives being punctuated by thousand daily activities, which requires language education to be rethought and reconcile methodological principles and pragmatism in order to offer instruction that is modern, efficient and in accordance with students’ expectations, needs and learning habits. The first part of this analysis will expound some theories that have served as foundation for the migration of some pragmatic principles to language teaching. The second part will consider the idea that constant evolution is not subjective or random, but based both on societal changes and feedback from previous trends. A last objective consists of the investigation of those benchmarks that have formed a pragmatic framework describing in detail a more modern approach to teaching.

The Phenomenon of Migration: A Linguistic and Sociological Perspective

Author(s): Mirela Beatris Munteanu / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The empirical research, which substantiate this analysis, is developing in two researching stages. In the first phase of the research, the context of our preoccupation is the semiotichal–pragmatic approach of the terms. We are interested in analysing the terminology of the word migrație in the scientific, respectively the common language, having at the base of the analysis the specialty dictionaries, because the semantic evolution of the words still remains a theme, which produces especially the interest of the researcher. In the second phase of the research we intend to make a radiography of a group of re–emigrant pupils, by trying to answer the questions about the typology and about the migration network, following the socio–linguistic dimension of this phenomenon.

Facets of prefabrication. Perspectives on modelling and detecting phraseological units

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

Corpus-based studies have brought fresh insights into the role of collocability and lexico-grammatical patterning as core aspects of language permeating its structure and use. Facets of Prefabrication builds upon these findings and provides further impetus in the direction of large-scale explorations of phraseology. lt introduces a dependency- based method of detecting potential phraseological units to increase the coverage of prefabricated structures in automatic combinatorial dictionaries which have so far been mainly restricted to binary collocations. Various sources of evidence are used to evaluate this approach and assess its relevance to phraseological theories, including word recall experiments and phraseological markers analyses. These investigations open new perspectives on the interplay of novelty vs. formulaicity in naturally-occurring language and increase our recognition of seemingly subtle, but nevertheless ubiquitous aspects of phraseological prefabrication.

Some experimental techniques in the study of horizontal and vertical aspects of event and narrative construal

Author(s): Janusz Badio / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The present article discusses examples of experimental techniques of studying events within narratives. The theoretical basis is Cognitive Linguistics, and cognitive psychology. The terms horizontal and vertical with regard to event and narrative construal, though somewhat arbitrary, provide a framework for the discussion of the many possibilities that exist in the experimental study of this topic. The theoretical considerations that are foundational for the article are discussed in sections one and two, followed by section three on techniques in the study of a single event, and section four that deals with events as they form the whole story coherence.

Propositional attitude predicates and ‘that’-clauses

Author(s): Giulia Felappi / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The so-called face-value theory of propositional attitude sentences, i.e. (The Face-Value Theory); (RP) Propositional attitude predicates occurring in propositional attitude sentences designate relations; (ST) ‘That’-clauses are singular terms; (P) ‘That’-clauses denote propositions, is often endorsed without even discussing the plausibility of its tenets. As Schiffer (2003: 11) holds, it is “the default theory that must be defeated if it’s not to be accepted” and in fact he himself spends but a handful of lines discussing it. Surely, it is the default theory, considering that it originated more or less two thousand years ago, and since then in philosophy it has mostly been taken for granted. But this does not make it necessarily true, and all alternative theories must be defeated if they are not to be accepted. The aim of this paper is to defeat the alternatives for what at stake with theses (RP) and (ST). As we will see, although we cannot prove that these theses are true, all the different data that need to be accounted for can be more elegantly and more easily explained if the two theses are endorsed. Thus we will conclude that there really is something face-value in the theses, and that an account that endorses them is to be preferred to the alternatives.

Epistemic must in Japanese – the case of modals hazu and ni chigainai

Author(s): Dariusz Głuch / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The aim of this paper is to analyse semantics of two Japanese modals of epistemic necessity: hazu and ni chigainai. The analysis shows that although both are of the same type and force, their semantics differs. While hazu seems to be a modal conveying certainty based on credible premises, ni chigainai is connected with premises loosely, and tends to be used as a modal expressing strong belief. Thus I propose to treat the latter as a modal of possibility that takes a shape of necessity on the surface level.

Referentially used descriptions in truth-conditional semantics

Author(s): Andrei Moldovan / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

My purpose in this paper is to argue that the referential-attributive distinction concerning definite descriptions is of minor relevance to truth-conditional semantics (although it is of greater semantic significance to a framework of structured propositions). The argument will go as follows: suppose that referential uses of DDs are semantically relevant, and suppose that the thesis of Referentialism (as proposed by Devitt (2007) and Reimer (1998)) is correct: then we should be able to identify the truth-conditional data that shows that Referentialism is preferable to the alternatives. I argue that such data is not readily available. The data that we do find relevant is such that the classical Russellian and Fregean theories can easily account for it.

Deriving quotation: some Minimalist problems

Author(s): Jan Wiślicki / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The aim of this paper is to discuss whether the standard Chomskyan Minimalist framework is in a position to generate quotational expressions. Assuming the crucial elements of the Minimalist architecture, that is the PIC and NTC based derivation by phases, I show that the behaviour of quotation poses serious problems for the current Minimalist Program. The theory of phases turns out to be not fine-grained enough in order to cover a wide variety of puzzling features observed for quotational expression. I argue, then, that the effects that can hardly be accounted for within the standard Minimalism naturally follow from the layered top-down derivation proposed by Zwart.

Emprunts néologiques et équivalents autochtones: études interlangues

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

La mondialisation accélère les contacts de langues et uniformise les modes de vie et de pensée par-delà les frontières. Le présent ouvrage donne un aperçu, à travers différentes langues, de l’impact linguistique de ces phénomènes de mondialisation et de contacts sur les emprunts lexicaux et sur leurs conséquences sur le lexique des langues qui les importent ou en subissent les influences.Les différentes contributions rassemblées ici s’intéressent à des emprunts (essentiellement à l’anglais) apparus récemment ainsi qu’aux éventuels néologismes créés comme équivalents (traductions, calques, synthèses néologiques) et en analysent la circulation. Les recherches, conduites sur une ou plusieurs langues (français et polonais mais aussi arabe, espagnol, italien et tchèque) dans des domaines sociétaux innovants, montrent des différences de réactivité des langues, ou plutôt de leurs locuteurs, face à ces emprunts : acceptation des emprunts tels quels, assimilation plus ou moins importante ou recherche d’équivalents, qu’il s’agisse de réactions spontanées ou du résultat de politiques d’aménagement linguistique.

W poszukiwaniu teorii znaczenia. Próby eksplikacji pojęcia znaczenia w filozofii XX wieku

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

The author attempts to provide a better insight into the the theory of meaning.

Current Developments in English Historical Linguistics: Studies in Honour of Rafał Molencki

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

The co-authored monograph entitled Current Developments in English Historical Linguistics: Studies in Honour of Rafał Molencki is a festschrift for professor Rafał Molencki, composed of 16 articles written by his friends and co-workers from Poland and abroad. The book contains texts covering different aspects of historical linguistics, which fit into broad research in the history of English and Scottish. The opening article is a humorous text written by Jerzy Wełna, who presents the profile of professor Molencki and offers etymological and cultural discussion of his first and family names. The remaining articles have been divided into three thematic parts entitled Medieval English Syntax, Semantics/Lexis/Translation and Phonology. The present volume constitutes an excellent review documenting the variety of research problems, methodology and language data that are currently employed by historical linguists interested in the history of the English language. It contains studies into grammaticalization, micro- and macroscale research, as well as theoretical and empirical texts devoted to semantics, phonology, syntax, and even translation.

Gatunki i style dyskursu publicznego w ujęciu konfrontatywnym

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

Reprezentacje świata w dyskursach (modele, obrazy, wizje)

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

Bogactwo polszczyzny w świetle jej historii. T. 7

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

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.

Poza zasadą komunikacji

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

The book deals with the situation of literary studies after post-structuralist turn. Era, when they were growing out of a single theory is a closed chapter in the discussed currents of research. The theory treated literature as an aggregate multiplying the information efficiency of a message, now the opposite vision appears: literature as a reset, a suspension of our cognitive power, a waste (potlatch). "Theory" is the "nickname" for texts that challenge disciplinary boundaries. Adapting to the new situation means a shift towards cultural studies or "service provision", which defenders of the humanities and literary studies oppose, seeing their role in founding the university and democracy.

Charakterystyka genologiczna telewizyjnego magazynu sportowego „na żywo” w perspektywie komunikatywistycznej

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

In the monograph I propose a new method of conducting genological research. It refers to the communicative grammar developed in linguistics and offers a number of interesting possibilities. Its main advantage is that it is firmly embedded in the realities of communication, in which all statements function, no matter what genre they represent. A different approach to the genre itself allows researcher to avoid the problems of traditional genology, which has great difficulties in reconciling the rigid classification of genres with communication practice.The basis of communicative genology is the assumption that a genre is, in fact, a standard generic script, constituting an interpretative basis (such as semantic standards) in the process of receiving messages, and at the same time – a reference point in the procedure of formulating statements. Each text is an implementation of a specific script, and any deviations from it can be treated as non-isomorphism, which the recipient notices and then reduces it to a familiar, typical form in the process of interpretation. Hence, it is possible to create very diverse statements, ostensibly not representing one scenario.The application of the proposed research method includes recreating the standard generic script (including the circumstances of the speech, the order of occurrence of structural elements, scenario participants, conditions triggering the script, the result of the scenario) and studying the communication levels of the generic script (ideational, interactive and discourse organization).

Język(i) w czasie i przestrzeni

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

Tematyce języka, czasu i przestrzeni poświęcono w literaturze polskiej i światowej bardzo dużo uwagi, zwłaszcza w ujęciu interdyscyplinarnym. Prace zebrane w niniejszym tomie wskazują na różne, nierzadko bardzo metaforyczne, sposoby pojmowania czasu i przestrzeni w szerokiej perspektywie lingwistycznej. Poszczególne rozdziały koncentrują się na wybranych aspektach użycia języka w przestrzeni internetowej i multimedialnej, na języku w przestrzeni miejskiej i państwowej. Kolejne teksty analizują język w różnych perspektywach czasowych, związanych z ewolucją języka i kontaktami międzyjęzykowymi, a także badają relacje zachodzące pomiędzy językiem a pamięcią, przedstawiają uwarunkowania zmian językowych w procesie afazji, przyglądają się przestrzeni teoretycznej, w której uprawiane jest językoznawstwo, oraz proponują rozważania o charakterze ogólnohumanistycznym. Autorzy koncentrują się na badaniach poszczególnych interesujących zjawisk i jednostkowych przypadków, a rozważania teoretyczno-metodologiczne splatają się z analizami zagadnień bardziej praktycznych. W niektórych tekstach pojawia się nawiązanie do aktualnych wydarzeń i ograniczeń, ale także nowych możliwości spowodowanych pandemią.

Szkice z metodologii językoznawstwa i filozofii języka

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

These studies deal with the interconnection of linguistics and philosophy of language, concentrating especially on generative grammar (and the work of Noam Chomsky and Ray Jackendoff), and analytic philosophy of language (as developed and influenced by Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell). The first chapter discusses Gorgias’ and his paradoxical trilemma, concentrating on its consequences for delineating different disciplines and pointing to the power and universality of human language. The chapter also mentions progress in philosophy, with the part dealing with paradigms in humanities and social sciences, with special focus on linguistics. The concept of paradigm is seen in terms of its ontological and argumentative potential. Chapter three concentrates on paradigm shift in generative grammar. Chapter four discusses basic concept in contemporary analytic philosophy of language and philosophy of linguistics, whereas chapter five is devoted to philosophical and linguistic developments in pragmatics. Chapter six looks at conceptual semantics and proposes an additional pragmatic level, it also discusses possible elementary categorial semantics for predication. The book concludes with some thoughts on turns in contemporary cognitive-analytic philosophy. The book is furnished with ample notes and references, the accompanying bibliography might serve as a guide to the field.

Z kim i dokąd?

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

Supplementary textbook for teaching Polish as a foreign language. Level B1 / B2; scope: Proper names (nomina propria) in the perspective of language subsystems and certified language skills.