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Interference Between Languages in Translation (Observations Based on Polish– Russian Translations of Legal Texts)This article considers the issue of language transfer in translation. External interference is one of the most common reasons behind the lack of equivalence between the source text and the target text. Negative transfer leads to the lack of linguistic correctness as well as to modifying...
From the Lexicographic Workshop of Bartholomeus de Bydgostia: Recurrences of EntriesThe aim of this article is to describe 280 examples of recurrences of Polish entries in the Latin-Polish dictionaries by Bartholomeus de Bydgostia of 1532 and 1544. The first researchers considered these recurrences to be mere mistakes resulting from a long time taken to prepare the dictionaries or from other causes...
Exponents of Deintensification in Polish and Slovak: An OutlineThis paper deals with deintensification and its exponents in two closely related languages: Polish and Slovak. Despite a considerable interest of researchers in the phenomenon of intensification, it is relatively understudied in the Polish-Slovak contrastive perspective. The author focuses on the basic indicators of deintensification,...
Reflection on Lexicography in Prefaces to Historical Translation DictionariesThis article aims to examine the scope of information included in prefaces to historical bilingual or trilingual dictionaries. An analysis of prefaces to eighteen Polish-Latin and Latin-Polish dictionaries made it possible to indicate the most frequently discussed issues: references to dictionaries by earlier authors; description...
Peculiar Features of Names of Household Objects in the Ukrainian Eastern Slobodian DialectsThis article presents an analysis of vocabulary of household objects in the Ukrainian Eastern Slobodian dialects. The area of vocabulary under discussion attracts the attention of researchers owing to its connection with material culture: it reflects human daily needs, social and economic living conditions and...
In Memoriam: Elżbieta Kędelska (16 March 1949 – 10 November 2014) Throughout her professional life, Elżbieta Kędelska (1949–2014) was associated with the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. She made a substantial contribution to research on the history of Polish dictionary-making. Her work was focused on Polish and Slavic linguistics, mainly the history of Latin-Polish and Latin-Czech...
A Volume of Henadzʹ Tsykhun’s Selected Studies as a Testimony to His Wide-Ranging Interests in Slavic LinguisticsThis article is a review of Henadzʹ Tsykhun’s volume of selected studies entitled Prastora movy: Moŭnyia suviazi: Historyia sloŭ: vybranyia pratsy [Language Space, Language Connections, History of Words: Selected Studies]. The reviewed work describes issues of language contact, sociolinguistics,...
Review: Aleksandra Niewiara, Imagologia – pamięć zbiorowa – umysł i kultura, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 2019, 320 pp.This paper is a review of Aleksandra Niewiara’s monograph Imagologia – pamięć zbiorowa – umysł i kultura [Imagology – Collective Memory – Mind and Culture]. The volume investigates the nature of collective conceptions of nations in terms of ethnolinguistic imagology...
List of Publications by Dr hab. Elżbieta KędelskaThe paper provides a list of publications by Dr hab. Elżbieta Kędelska. Wykaz publikacji dr hab. Elżbiety KędelskiejArtykuł stanowi wykaz publikacji dr hab. Elżbiety Kędelskiej.
The Status of Turkish Loanwords marama and maramica in Modern CroatianThe present article aims to investigate the status, frequency and function of Turkish loanwords marama and maramica in modern Croatian. This study attempts to compare views of Croatian linguists on these lexemes with their practical usage recorded in online corpora. The analysis demonstrates that a purist language policy applied...
The Dictionary of Bartholomeus de Bydgostia from the Perspective of Latin-Polish Legal VocabularyThe aim of this article is to discuss relations between Latin and Polish at the lexical level. I present some difficulties in determining the meaning of words as exemplified by the legal vocabulary concerning the ius civile. The difficulties in question stem from the way Latin words are defined and from...
Warnings and Prohibitions as Means of Exerting Influence on the Addressee in Seventeenth– Eighteenth-Century Ukrainian SermonsIn religious communication, psychological influence – as a result of which a person should change their subjective features (value orientations, ways of conduct, etc.) – is aimed at fostering compliance with religious norms. The tasks of a priest include religious education...
A Comparative Cognitive-Semantic Analysis of Polish and Serbian Phraseological Units Which Are Related to Emotional-Affective States and Contain Components Referring to Parts of Human Body This article offers an analysis of Polish and Serbian phraseological units which are related to emotional-affective states and contain components referring to parts of human body. The cognitive-semantic analysis...
Lexis of the Polish-East Slavic Borderland as a Testimony to a Multilingual Past The importance of borderlands has been considered in many studies in various fields, both theoretical and empirical. In this study, the borderland is approached as a geographical term, an area in Poland which is located in close proximity to the eastern border. At the same time, this spatial understanding of the border...
Main Trends in the Study of Ukrainian Surnames (Late Seventeenth – Early Twenty-First Centuries): I. The Achievements of Ukrainian OnomasticiansThis article analyses main trends in the study of Ukrainian surnames from the period between the late seventeenth and the early twenty-first centuries. It points out the topicality of research on regional anthroponymy and its contribution to the development...
A New Bilingual Phraseological Dictionary: A Polemical ReflectionThis article presents a critical analysis of the bilingual publication entitled A Lexicon of Polish and Ukrainian Active Phraseology (Leksykon aktywnej frazeologii polskiej i ukraińskiej / Leksykon pol′s′koï ta ukraïns′koï aktyvnoï frazeolohiï), compiled by Roman Tymoshuk, Wojciech Sosnowski, Maciej Jaskot and Yurii Ganoshenko. In the...
The Semantics of Wormwood in Non-Fictional Narratives about the Chernobyl DisasterThis article concerns the semantics of wormwood in the context of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The study considers non-fictional narratives about this catastrophe from an ethnolinguistic and ethnobotanical perspective. The situational semantics of wormwood draws on the symbolism of this plant established in East Slavic...
Further Remarks on the Appellativisation of the Given Name JanuszThe appellativisation of a given name, especially when related to its stigmatisation, is not frequent in Polish. All the more amazing is the rapid career of the name Janusz as an appellative. The phenomenon was first apparent in such phrases as janusze plaży or janusze polskiej gospodarki, used on the Internet and in the print media...
Lacunary Components in the Phraseology of the Ukrainian Areal ContinuumThis article deals with the peculiarities of the concept lacuna from the perspective of theoretical considerations. Based on theoretical studies of lacunarity, the author discusses issues related to the phenomenon of linguistic and cultural lacunae, including their sources and types. She also presents the main features of linguistic...
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