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The purpose of the article is an analysis of the communication mistakes connected with using of negations. We consider this issue in the context of the basic language function, that is communication competence and in the con¬text of the speech acts theory. In the article we refer to three important negation types that are related to speech acts: firstly - clause negation; secondly - performative negation;...
The purpose of this article is to outline the relationship between personal convictions and the professional burnout syndrome; particularly we are interested in the issue of how the individual’s conyictions may increase the danger of professional burnout. First of all we will draw attention to the enormous influence of personal convictions on our cognitive processes, emotions and behaviour. In this...
The purpose of the article is presentation of studies that firstly: were a replication of Wegner's and Erber's (1992) studies which were related with paradoxes of controlling thoughts (suppression and concentration); secondly: enriched it by the stream-of-thought stage. Our studies were an extended version of Wegner's and Erber's experiment, where the participants (in conditions of time pressure or...
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