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It is clear that no language exists in isolation and through personal encounters, contact between languages results in lexical borrowings. The influence of one language on another can be perceived in a positive way - as an enrichment of the lexical language of the recipient, or a negative way - for example, as an attempt to replace native lexical units with those of foreign origin. In this article...
I have attempted to reconstruct the image of Germany perceived by Poles (heterostereotypes) and by Germans (autostereotypes). The point of departure for this analysis is a culturological perspective and its goal is to answer the question of how lexicography might contribute to strengthening ethnical stereotypes.
The aim of a refusal letter as an answer to a job application is to communicate negative information to the person who is trying to obtain a job. For the reason of the necessity to save face as well as an inconvenience of the situation, authors of refusal letters apply various strategies aiming at mitigation of the formulated refusal. The objective of the article is to present structural elements...
The situation in the job market and specific expectations of job applicants lie at the heart of a peculiar
“career” that has recently been experienced in refusal letters. Additional elements influencing
their form and content are German law regulations. Aperitif-Briefe, Eisschreiben, and refusal letters
proper are the three main variants of this text genre which has undergone noticeable evolution...
This article presents a lexical analysis of the German lexeme Arsch and the Polish lexeme dupa. The departure point is the thesis that linguistic taboos connected with this vulgarism are more and more often broken. This can be observed in the numerous examples given in the text and the formative and collocational potential of the analyzed lexemes.
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