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.

System of Classical Tibetan Grammar

Author(s): Chashab Thupten Kunga / Language(s): English

Książka zawiera tekst tybetański oraz przekład na język angielski dwóch fundamentalnych traktatów kodyfikujących zasady gramatyki tybetańskiej autorstwa Thon mi Sambhoty oraz prezentacje wybranych zagadnień gramatycznych. Autor podejmuje dyskusję z autorami komentarzy tybetańskich, a także z opiniami uczonych Zachodu. Jest to nowatorska i oryginalna praca w skali światowej.

Toward a Narrative Grammar of Polish

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

Studium elementów gramatyki narratywnej w popularnonaukowych opowiadaniach Stanisława Lema Opowieści o pilocie Pirxie. Zawiera wnikliwą i nowatorską analizę podstawowych środków gramatycznych języka polskiego używanych w budowie tekstu narracyjnego i określających zjawiska tekstualne związane z odbiorem anatomii opowiadania przez czytelnika.Analiza została przeprowadzona w formie zazębiających się badań nad zasobem wykładników gramatycznej budowy tekstu, przyczyniających się do powstania spójnego, wielowarstwowego i bogatego pod względem artystycznym tekstu narracyjnego, takich jak: czas, aspekt, schematy składniowe, współrzędność i podrzędność składniowa, partykuły i spójniki oraz szyk zdania. Wielopłaszczyznowe ujęcie ukazuje wzajemne oddziaływanie literackich i językowych elementów, tworząc obraz sztuki narracyjnej Stanisława Lema i zarazem obraz struktury językowej polszczyzny.

Lingwistyka kulturowa i międzykulturowa. Antologia

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

Analysis of cultural and intercultural linguistics, language – culture relationship in the communication-discursive dimension, key concepts and definitions, self-presentation categories and their cultural and linguistic models. Discussion on the problems of code switching in conversation, communication misunderstandings in multicultural communities and the research and development perspectives of this field of linguistics.

Speclang 2. Fachsprachen – Ausbildung – Karrierechancen

Author(s): / Language(s): German

Speclang 2. Języki specjalistyczne. Edukacja – Perspektywy – Kariera

Author(s): Agnieszka Stawikowska-Marcinkowska,Beata Grzeszczakowska-Pawlikowska / Language(s): Polish

Święto języka. Szkice o relacjach między światem, słowem a umysłem ludzkim

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

The book consists of seven chapter-studies. The first one features an extensive analysis of Genezis z Ducha by Juliusz Słowacki, the second is an interpretation of letters written by Arthur Rimbaud from Africa, the third deals with The Letter of Lord Chandos by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the fourth – with The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco, the fifth – with the Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille, the sixth – with some rarely noted aspects of the philosophy of Democritus and of Greek skepticism, while the seventh is an attempt at comparing the account of the psychosis of the elderly Daniel Paul Schreber with the mystical states of Emanuel Swedenborg.

Społeczność w języku – język w społeczności

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

Oriental Encounters. Language, Society, Culture / Spotkania orientalistyczne. Język, społeczeństwo, kultura

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

Tradycja i współczesność w badaniach nad językami słowiańskimi. Księga jubileuszowa dedykowana Profesor Annie Zych

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

Compound nouns and phrasal nouns in English and Polish

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

The present monograph discusses compound nouns and juxtapositions (i.e., phrasal nouns) in Polish and English, focusing on the interaction and competition between the processes of coining both types of linguistic units. The phrasal nouns under analysis include combinations of classifying adjectives and nouns in any order, for instance, English electrical engineer, hard disk, Polish inżynier budowlany ‘construction engineer,’ zimowe opony ‘winter tyres’; coordinate noun-noun juxtapositions, such as Polish torba-worek ‘holdall bag,’ kelner-barman ‘waiter and bartender’; and combinations of nouns and genitive attributes (English women’s college, Polish dom studenta ‘student hall of residence’). Constraints on forming compound nouns in Polish are illustrated. Compound nouns and phrasal nouns are divided into classes according to the typology of composite expressions postulated by S. Scalise and A. Bisetto. Emphasis is placed on demonstrating that phrasal nouns exhibit a mixture of phrasal and word-like properties. Difficulties are pointed out in drawing a strict and non-arbitrary border between morphological compounds and syntactic phrases, and in identifying subtypes of phrasal nouns which differ in their degree of similarity to regular noun phrases. The phenomenon of univerbation (i.e., morphological condensation) in the Polish language is discussed. The framework adopted in this monograph is the theory of Construction Morphology, formulated by G. Booij, who shows that principles of Construction Grammar can be applied felicitously in the analysis of morphologically complex words. Construction Morphology has been adopted mainly by researchers who study Germanic and Romance languages. In the present monograph construction schemas are proposed for selected types of compound nouns and phrasal nouns in Polish and English. The mechanism of schema unification is employed in order to represent the internal structure of interfixal-suffixal formations in Polish. It is demonstrated that the model of Construction Morphology is particularly felicitous in the study of phenomena at the border of syntax and word-formation, such as interaction and competition between morphological compounds and phrasal lexemes. Although the linguistic data under analysis come mainly from Polish and English, multi-word units from other Indo-European languages are mentioned where appropriate. Theoretical considerations are supported by numerous examples culled from on-line corpora, such as the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and the National Corpus of Polish (NKJP).

Quand regarder fait lire. Nouveaux défis dans l’enseignement des littératures de langue française. Pluralités européennes, nombre 1/27

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

Continuation of the series “Le Cahiers de Varsovie” (no 1/27), the book helps to answers the question of how to teach French and French-language literature in French Studies Departments in the 21st century: which books should be read to make literary classes interesting, what exercises should be proposed to help students to understand the text and how to combine literature with teaching history and culture.

Leksykografia w różnych kontekstach. Tom 2

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

The volume contains 21 articles concerning various lexicographical problems and dictionaries: new and old, general and specialist, internet and printed, Polish and foreign. The articles are devoted to articulated and sign languages. The books shows the multiplicity of contemporary lexicography.

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.

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.

Tryumf amatora. O społecznościowych praktykach tekstualnych w świecie mediów elektronicznych

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

The monograph discusses computer media from the perspective of literary criticism and cultural anthropology. It analyses in depth phenomena such as: fake news, internet memes, the authorship of Wikipedia, the functions of accounts in social media, the practices of live streaming, simultaneously using the methodology of traditional literary criticism. Many textual occurrences are connected with participation practices through computer media on the Web.

West African languages. Linguistic theory and communication

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

The monograph covers the main aspects of studies on West African languages related to the diversity of structural patterns and complexity of their linguistic assignment. It includes various topics ranging from linguistic description and conceptualization patterns to the sociolinguistics of contemporary refugee camps. Typological diversity is enriched with the presentation of pidgin structures and sign languages. Structural differences between languages are seen from a comparative perspective, which also indicates the areal dimension of linguistic processes. The presentations of linguists from both Europe and Africa develop the idea of convergence area in West Africa, which is motivated by the contact between languages of different affiliations to language families and common cultural basis of language development.

Categories and Units in Language and Linguistics

Author(s): Alan Cienki,Kamila Ciepiela,Craig Callender,Henryk Kardela,Krzysztof Kosecki,Przemysław Krakowian,Ourania Papadima,Jana Richterová,Nezrin Samedova-Hajiyeva,Jacek Tadeusz Waliński / Language(s): English

The papers in this volume concern different linguistic categories from a variety of perspectives. The first and second papers by Janusz Badio deal with evaluation in EFL written stories and the linguistic coding of events in agreement with their variable salience in conceptualisation. The chapter by Alan Cienki analyses gesture units to draw conclusions about language in general. Kamila Ciepiela looks at the category of identity as a product and process. Craig Callender presents a chapter on the perception and the nature of the phoneme followed by a chapter by Henryk Kardela, who discusses how meanings and forms are fused into single morphological units. Krzysztof Kosecki turns the readers’ attention on the prototype of narrative and emotion in E. Hemingway’s story Cat in the Rain and on the analysis of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. Przemysław Krakowian’s interesting article explains the role of Multi Facet Rash Analysis in tests of oral production. Ourania Papadima expertly overviews the very important categories of second language pedagogy, ESP and EAP. Jana Richterova provides an analysis of resource books for advanced learners of English. Nezrin Samedova-Hajiyeva’s chapter centres on the grammatical category of aspect. Last, Jacek Waliński describes the categorization of directional verbs in English.

Stylizacja leksykalna utworów nurtu fantastyczno-ludycznego Stanisława Lema w przekładach na język bułgarski

Author(s): Marcin Fastyn / Language(s): Bulgarian,Polish

This study analyses etymological and word-formation methods employed to create the non-standard vocabulary of Stanislaw Lem’s Cyberiada (The Cyberiad) and Powtórka [Repetition], with a particular focus on neologisms. The analysis also considers equivalents of this vocabulary used by the Bulgarian translators of these works, and translation solutions they decided to apply. As established, differences between their translation strategies led to significant losses in the Bulgarian translation of Powtórka in comparison with the source text.

From Mentalism to Optimality Theory

Author(s): Monika Konert-Panek / Language(s): English

The work discusses the notion of the basic phonological segment from the perspective of selected European and American phonological theories. The discussion consists in the analyses of specific phonological problems in accordance with the tenets of a given framework, starting with the Kazan School and ending with the Optimality Theory. The goal of this study is to show the differences in the methodology and predictions of each framework that prove significant in the process of establishing the basic phonological unit. The dissertation elaborates on the data from English, Polish, German, and Russian.