Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Linguistica
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This article contains an analysis of a specific group of names in Polish anthroponomy, namely names of nuns from the Catholic Religious Order of Carmelite Sisters of St. Therese of the Infant Jesus. Name in this order consists of a proper name and the so-called predicate (for instance “sister Gabriel from Jesus”). Predicate is a sort of a sign or emblem, which is a peculiar symbol of piety. This article...
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The article presents a semantic and semiotic analysis of the notion of the city in Zbigniew Herbert’s poetry. On the basis of excerpts from selected poems, the word “city” and its links with other words are presented against the context.
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The author of the article discusses names of Wilno/Vilnius in the oldest Latin, Russian and Polish documents. He also analyses place names denoting the city, city districts, suburbs, streets and alleys, castles, towers, mountains, as well as names denoting inhabitants of city and region.
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In the present article, 115 Christian names of female children born between 1918 and 1939 have been presented and analysed. The source material is based on parish registers which are available in Miechow parochial office. These names constitute a great collection of names typical of the interwar period. An interesting picture of Christian name-giving, its custom and motivation is obtained in this...
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The article shows selected aspects of the means of communication used by dialect speakers outside their local environment, i.e. in the city, in contacts with standard language users. The examination was based on the research into the language of inhabitants of Spisz villages, conducted by the author of the article.
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Wall inscriptions, i.e. “inscriptions, symbols, slogans, or pictures painted on building walls, brick walls, board fences, and in public places”, as part of the written language of an urban youth subculture, are seldom the subject of linguistic research and belong to the genre of the street artistic work referred to as graffiti. The phenomenon of graffiti can be regarded not only as a type of art...
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The article is an attempt to discuss the peculiarity of the language used by those Poles who emigrated after Poland’s joining the EU in May 2004, and who currently live and work in London. The object of research is the vocabulary typical of and most often used by a particular social group, that is the London Poles, in other words – the lexicon emerging as a result of linguistic interference. The author...
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The names of urban objects may be subject to different classifications. Most commonly the analysed part has to meet the onomastic criteria of being a proper name. The part ulica, uliczka, aleja, plac (street, alley, square) in the urban microtoponymy is disregarded. Urban toponyms may be composed of one or many elements. Single part place names are streets commemorating writers, poets, revolutionaries,...
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The article presents the demographic-sociological effects brought by the change of status of the town – earlier a village – Mszana Dolna when it received the municipal charter. The process of renaming the town’s streets is described in detail.
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The article concerns the history of the Silesian Polish in the first half of 1920s, which is exemplified by advertisements from two Polish papers published in Upper Silesia: “Katolik” and “Polonia”. The article contains an analysis of phonetic and orthographic phenomena related to the local dialect, regional vocabulary, lexical archaisms, lexical and syntactic Ger- manisms, spelling and inflection...
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The article is based on the assumptions of cultural linguistics and concerns the genre- specificity of a letter. The author, through the analysis of grammatical categories, semantic and pragmatic forms of expression and sentence constructions used by Kraszewska, attempts to reconstruct the linguistic picture of a lonely woman living in the reality of 19th century Warsaw.
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The article shows the means of evaluation of the word CITY in song lyrics. These methods have not changed throughout the last 40 years: the most frequent are connotational-evaluative words. On the other hand, the values assigned have changed: only positive in the 1960s, they have been replaced with negative values in the beginning of the 21st century.
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The anthroponyms from the second half of the 17 th century have been excerpted from documents containing real estate tariffs, published in Sources to Warsaw History. The article deals with names reflecting the name-giving fashion of those times, highlights foreign elements indicative of the non-Polish ancestry of some burghers, as well as Slavonic names used in the nomination of Varsovians. It also...
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The article concerns the Grodno/Hrodna period of Nałkowska’s life. She introduced Hrodna to the pages of best works: ”Ściany świata”, ”Niedobra miłość”, ”Granica”, and ”Węzły życia”. The writer’s five-year stay in the Neman river region enriched her works, the source of which was her diary. It became an important document of the epoch, in which the author is both the narrator and the main character...
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When thinking about the spatiality in Miron Białoszewski’s literary work, and poetry in particular, we have to admit that it is almost impossible to imagine without the city. His poems are strongly filled with urban space, and the status of civilian plays an important role in forming the identity of the subject. The city in Białoszewski’s works, or maybe it is better to say – cities, as the presented...
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The article presents lexical and semantic peculiarities found in puns published in Krakow and Lviv humour magazines at the turn of the 20th century. The lexical peculiarities include archaisms and obsolete expressions, rare and sophisticated words, as well as regionalisms and dialectalisms.
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In the article, the focus of interest is the descriptive element of contemporary names of shops. Such names are compounds consisting of a noun denoting the enterprise (sklep, salon, studio, galeria, atelier, supermarket, etc.) and attributes denoting various features, e.g. the sort of goods sold, the material of which the goods are made, the area of life, and potential customers or users of the goods...
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The aim of the article is the semantic and structural analysis of street names in Stary Sącz and Nowy Sącz. Apart from names formed in agreement with the Polish standard of naming streets and squares, individual names were observed in the research (names stemming from mountain range names, river and stream names, and names of patrons originating from the Sącz region).
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The article presents the results of research on the vocabulary used in e-mails by young inhabitants of Tarnów. The research corpus consists of about 200 e-mails written by pupils of Tarnów schools between March 2007 and April 2008. Main emphasis of the research is put on the novel linguistic forms which determine the innovative character of e-mail communication, in particular: technical and technological...
