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In this article I discuss the combinability and the meaning of the general-reference prepositions w związku z and w nawiązaniu do. On the basis of the conducted analysis I modify semantic explication of w związku z by Małgorzata Bera (2001) and I suggest semantic explication of the second lexical unit. The revealed semantic restrictions imposed by prepositions w związku z and w nawiązaniu do show...
To arouse fear in a recipient is one of the main manipulative methods used during the 2007 electoral campaign in Poland by the Law and Justice (PiS) and the Civic Platform (PO) — the largest political parties to be in the lead of surveys at that time. The author of the article tried to answer the following questions: What do both parties threaten with? What language tricks do they use to induce fear?...
The intention of this thesis is to reconstruct the linguistic picture of the world which has been preserved in the sixteenth-century works of M. Rej, S. Orzechowski and L. Górnicki. The research has revealed that there are some common fragments of semantic fields of these three compared visions of the world and some subjective characteristic parts of each of them as well. The special quality of the...
The paper analyses and describes the advantages and disadvantages of corpus data sources for the analysis of child speech, i.e., on the basis of speech diaries kept in a modern way and transcribed recordings. The author points out the possibilities and limitations of both sources, and deliberates on their usefulness and reliability while researching on the process of forming particular language subsystems...
In my very own book (Bobrowski, 1998) I am trying to prove that Generative Grammar is a manifestation of falsificationism in linguistics (in the sense of Karl Popper’s philosophy of science). In this article however, I am analyzing the Government and Binding Theory, and the Minimalist Program. To my mind, the theories proposed by Noam Chomsky after 1980 belong rather to costructivism, which is a new...
The topic of the article is the vocabulary related to parts of animal body and subject classification of dictionary definitions of the abovementioned terms. The author compares entries found in dictionaries of the Polish language regarding animal body structure and indicates various problems which manifest themselves when analyzing this kind of entries, such as lack of a uniform strategy of entry...
The paper is a polemic with an extremely deep-rooted in the Polish tradition of child speech research proposal of periodicizing the early period of speech acquisition provided by Leon Kaczmarek in 1953. The author invalidates the correctness of distinguishing “the period of peculiar child speech” in child speech and points out the likely cause of such a distinction, i.e. data used by Leon Kaczmarek.
The article deals with the meaning of the expressions denoting natural phenomena, objects and substances. The author does not propose definitional formulas of selected unit of language, but he presents the preliminary characteristic of lingiustic expressions representing distinguished groups. The author analyses units of language such as słońce (sun), ciepło (warmth), góra (mountain).
The subject matter of this article is the semantic analysis of Polish lexical items as representation of human mental state. The first part of the paper presents an attempt to formulate a semantic explication of lexical item X załamał się tym, że ZW. In the second part the author suggest an explication formula of the meaning of item X-a przygnębiło to, że YW. One of the basic differences between these...
This article is devoted to the heterogeneity of genre and style of wedding invitations. This type of text is frequently modified by various adaptations (e.g. global and partial), which are the result of sender’s intentional activity. The authors of the texts carry out an experiment with many patterns of text concerning the ceremony of marriage: artistic (poetry), religious (marriage vows, the Bible),...
According to tradition, most words like zdrów (healthy), wesół (cheerful), pełen (full) should be interpreted exclusively as the so-called short or predicative forms of adjectives. However, predicativity should not be turned into an inflectional category (section 1). The idea to perceive such words exclusively as verbs (developed by R. Laskowski) does not stand up to criticism (section 2) even if...
The article is concerned with factors affecting text difficulty while reading in a foreign language with particular attention to reading in Polish as a foreign language. Assessment of text difficulty is crucial both for developing reading skills in foreign language class and for language testing purposes. Text difficulty may, among others, stem from its lexical and syntactic complexity, text structure,...
This article is the fourth in the series of texts devoted to The Nest Dictionary of Polish Particles being in preparation. It gives basic information on the dictionary’s microstructure (for further details see Grochowski, Kisiel, Żabowska 2011). The most important issue presented here is, however, scope of the notion “particle”. After preparing a tentative list of language units that seemed to belong...
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