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The Sorbian bibliography – its history and futureThe first Sorbian bibliographic registers were compiled in the 18th century and also became a tool for the growing nationalhistorical awareness of the Sorbian intelligentsia. In 1847, the society named Maćica Serbska was founded to promote scholarly and cultural discussions for a national-cultural discourse. In this function, it also made publication...
Multilingual information retrieval system of Slavic linguistics iSybislaw: challenges, achievements and opportunitiesIn multilingual information retrieval (IR) system iSybislaw we introduce a number of solutions enlarging its efficiency and effectiveness with the main tool, which presents the keyword language. In this paper the applicability and consistency of the accepted approach in the presentation...
Can the presently created Kashubian literary language and the currently formed new Breton language be objects of consideration for researchers of the linguistic picture of the world?The influence of the Polish language in conjunction with education and the mass media have brought about in the second half of the 20th century a growth of Polish-Kashubian bilingualism and a decline of Kashubian dialects...
A historian's second afterword to Resztki Słowian na południowym wybrzeżu Morza Bałtyckiego by Alexander HilferdingThe purpose of the Second Afterword is to emphasise that current interpretations of Resztki Słowian by linguists are exceptionally uncritical and, consequently, one-sided. I do not find Alexander Hilferding's account useless, but I believe that, as any other subjective report, it requires...
Internationalisms as a source of equonymy in Slavic technical terminology (on the basis of Polish, Russian and Bulgarian material)The article presents one of the main sources of Slavic synonymy in technical terms – the phenomenon of internationalization. On the basis of a comprehensive set of Polish, Russian and Bulgarian terms of the range of machinery (construction and operation) it was found that...
West Slavic languages and English loanwords in the last two decades – an overview of grammar, lexicon, pragmatics and the socio-cultural contexThe recent decades, as is generally acknowledged, have been a period of profound changes in Central and Eastern Europe. These changes are reflected in the lexicon. Nominative needs have caused a remarkable vocabulary growth, with loanwords constituting a numerous...
Intercultural competence, or how the others see usThe goal of learning and mastering foreign languages is to develop communicational competence. Apart from liguistic, sociolinguistic and pragma linguistic, this also involves cultural competence. According to the CEFR, cultural competence is aquired by improving skills such as open-mindedness, curiosity and tolerance. These skills help learners to...
The development of anthropocentric theories in modern linguisticsThe article highlights the unique position of anthropocentric theories within modern linguistics. To exemplify tendencies in the forming of idiolectic language theories in their functional aspects, I analyse the gnoseological approach in Alexander Kiklevich's linguistics. Modern linguistics differentiates between anthropocentric and...
Syntactic interferences in isolated dialects (on the basis of the Russian dialect of the Suwałki–Augustów region Old Believers and the Polish dialect of the inhabitants of Vershina in Siberia)The aim of the article is to discuss Polish syntactic interferences in the Russian dialect used by the Old Believers and, by analogy, Russian interferences in the Polish dialect of the inhabitants of Vershina...
Word formation activity and the phenomenon of loanwords as exemplified by dual aspect verbs (in Polish-Slovakian interlinguality)The conducted analysis of dual aspect verbs (based on selected linguistic material) and contrasting them with the state observed a quarter or half century ago do not show interdependencies between the existence of the group of genetically foreign dual aspect verbs – which...
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