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Language functions are considered as means 1) to provide communication (speech) and 2) to be a basis for knowledge and thoughts (gnostic function). Speech functions are understood as attitudes of an utterance to components of a communicative situation. Speech functions are divided into coordinative ones, when an utterance coordinates an interlocutor’s behavior (representative, appealing and emotive...
The aim of this article is to outline some of the recent tendencies in Anglophone and Polish research on epistemic modality. The author observes that while traditionally research focused on modal verbs, most recent publications are concerned with epistemic adverbs, adjectives and modal particles. Attempts at establishing classification criteria for these categories have been made in both Anglophone...
The article aims at discussing the most characteristic linguistic devices thanks to which Marek Koterski performs stylization into the colloquial Polish language in Day of the Wacko (2002). This film is very popular not only with the demanding elite audience but also a statistical Pole because apart from difficult inter-textual references, the film also plays with the language of everyday communication...
In recent years there has been an increasing interest in translation process research conducted with the use of such empirical methods as think-aloud protocols, retrospection, or more advanced research methods, for instance computer programme Translog or oculographic analyses. The article presents partial results of the experiment conducted in order to analyze translation process in children’s literature...
The paper aims to determine whether it is possible to indicate lexical and phraseological units which are likely to be non-equivalent in a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. The approach adopted is focussed on words which are culture-bound as the base for derivatives and fixed expressions. It is assumed that such units have high lacunarity potential. In order to analyse it, the New Zealand...
The author of the article discusses a special manner of existence of constructed languages created within the boundaries of science fiction. The subject matter occupies a special place in the general theory and practice of science fiction within the frames of the confrontation of languages and modification of the existing linguistic systems. The article contains a brief outline of constructed languages...
This article is continuation of the discussion on grammatical characteristics of the Polish verbal components, understood as elements of phraseological units. The subject of the work is comparison of collocations, containing a pair of equivalent verbal components. The research demonstrated interesting grammatical regularity between inflection and syntactic features. The verbal components having different...
The subject of research in this article are Jan Twardowski’s poems translated into Russian and compared to their original Polish versions. A purpose of the study was to check whether formal-esthetical equivalence within the scope of expressive names’ translation has been achieved. The issue of stylistic devices is crucial for poetry. The analysis of the original Polish texts indicates a conscious...
The article attempts at capturing a linguistic image of the past in A. Asnyk’s texts and presenting symbolic relations between the abstract meaning and the attributes ascribed to it. The author analyzed not only the metaphors containing the lexeme past but also any synonymic notions, periphrases, phrases and terms referring to olden days. On this basis, several models of the past have been distinguished...
This study investigated whether and to what extent stimulus characteristics such as voices (same vs. different) and stress patterns (strong–weak vs. weak– strong) influence the auditory priming effect. The experiment involved 20 Japanese participants learning the English language, who were asked to listen to English words (half of them in the same voice or stress pattern as in a prior study session)...
A purpose of this article is to compare Polish and Russian word families formed from the Proto-Slavic lexeme *rǫka. 90 derivatives whose word-formation basis is the lexeme hand have been excerpted from Dictionary of Polish Language edited by M. Szymczak whereas 143 words deriving from the Russian word рука have been found in Словаре русского языка edited by A. P. Jewgieniewa. Despite quantitative...
The article discusses the problem of place, role, meaning and functions of proper names in post-modern advertising texts. The description and analysis proposed herein concern anthroponyms and geonyms. The presentation of the material for analysis, taken from the mass media in the years from 2010–2013, was divided into three thematic groups: 1) authentic anthroponyms in the advertising text; 2) non-authentic...
The aim of the paper is to show the patterns of formulas as typical phenomenon for the notarial texts from the early nineteenth century, as well as the repertoire of terms forming the text frame of agreements and their functions. It is not so much important to prove that the formulas are characteristic for official documents, what has repeatedly been indicated by researchers dealing with this issue,...
The article presents the ways of valuating and the functioning of values in a poetic text. Selected names of flowers appearing in Young Poland’s poetry have been used as the exemplary material. The author aims at indicating how far the general model of valuating, which is established in the standard variety of the Polish language, is reflected in modernistic works, to what extent poetic texts creatively...
Janko of Czarnków Chronicle has been subject to the onomastic analysis. In consequence, 324 naming formations have been excerpted. The first onimic category distinguished in Chronicle are monomial formations. In the oldest source materials we may observe that apart from a single proper noun, there appear different kinds of notions allowing more precise characteristic. Z. Kowalik-Kaleta named them...
The article presents a fragment of the linguistic image of the world, i.e. the concept of «water». The author is interested in the relations occurring between the word naming a concept and its synonyms. The system of lexemes meanings and a typical cohesion connected with it compose a manner of classifying the world characteristic for a specific language. The analyzed synonymic sequence is composed...
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