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The present article surveys the main directions of the contemporary lexical-semantic typology and how the German language data can be applied to the existing classifications. The diachronic aspect concerns the typology of lexical change, namely universals and particulars of semantic change, lexical borrowing and word formation. The synchronic aspect has two different perspectives: one is onomasiological,...
The number of migrants in contemporary Germany is constantly growing. There are also increasing problems arising as a result of cultural differences between the immigrants and the local population and also due to different habits of both groups. These differences, foreign traditions and their perception in Germany seem to be important topics from viewpoint of cultural studies not only for scientist,...
The experience of reading the reports produced by various departments of the Lodz town government in the times of the Nazi occupation gives us a unique opportunity to become acquainted with the functioning of the fascist bureaucracy. There is much we can learn there about the work of the office in question and the lives of its officials in a broader context of the effectiveness of their activity....
The article is a brief introduction into the specifics and methodology of typological studies of indefinite pronouns, and presents the concept of an implicational map for indefinite pronoun functions, proposed by Haspelmath (1997). The implicational map identifies nine core functions (contexts) of indefinite pronouns that must be distinguished for the purposes of cross-linguistic comparison, and shows...
The Amphitryon-theme ran through some interesting transformations within German literature. This article explores these variations in a wider comparative context. Instead of a thematological approach – that sometimes emanates from problematic notions of textuality, questionable processes of canonization, and philological and national boundaries – intertextual perspectives and post-structuralist psychoanalysis...
In detailed investigations of the use of cases in present-day German, caused by Sebastian Sick‘s book Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod, I discovered that the statements by Sick (2004) present only half of the truth (or even less), since the replacement of the genitive by the dative is only part of more extensive changes: the dative is also replaced by the genitive (especially after prepositions),...
The article presents a synthetic summary of the state of research on the Łódź ghetto. The author focuses on research by Polish and German scholars. The paper presents edited source texts, such as newspapers or reportages, one of the most important documents of the Holocaust literature, namely the “Chronicle of the Łódź Ghetto / Litzmannstadt Getto”, as well as studies on various phenomena in the ghetto,...
The German literary heritage from the period between Middle Ages and Modern Times (8th-17th cc.) has an unquestionably high status in German Studies in the German-speaking countries. Hence, German Medieval Studies are widely acknowledged as an indisputably vital research domain. Austrian, German and Swiss academic institutions recognize German Medieval Studies as one of the three main autonomous components...
The Bologna Accords have introduced a series of changes which aimed to restructure education and led to the creation of the European Higher Education Area. One of the effects brought about by the Bologna Accord is a decrease of significance of scientific research at the BA level. Numerous academic courses, German philology included, are torn between their traditional teaching methods and orientation...
The political activity of the former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder is shown – in the article – as an example of possibility of interpretation of the historical phenomena. We compared chancellor’s Polish politics with the image fixed in the Polish people collective memory. Also the different Polish and German historical memory was indicated as a factor which have an influence on contemporary politics...
The subject of the article is the ratification by Bundestag in may 1972 of the agreement between Poland and the Federal Republic of Germany about the normalization of their relationships. This agreement, however was criticized by the then opposition CDU/CSU-fraction, finally was accepted, because of the pression by the allies Germany, but mainly USA. The article exposes the role of Chancellor Willy...
The author presents his understanding of Cultural Studies as an academic field that integrates various disciplines of the Humanities and Social Sciences. On the basis of such a conception of Cultural Science he proposes the concept of Kulturkomparatistik, which goes beyond its conventional philological meaning and enables comparative research outside of Linguistics and Literary Studies. Based on the...
The former German Language Island Markowa (Eastern Poland) was grounded in the 14th century. There is only one written testimony of its language preserved – the Court Book. In was written in 16th and 17th century by two writters. The second one was the local priest Thomas Kraus who was born in the neighbor village of Albigowa. The language of the Court book consists many characteristics of the Central...
The aim of this paper is to show how the dimensions of imagery, one of the most important human cognitive abilities, can be expressed, that is to consider the impact this ability can have on the process of text production and its understanding in translation. It is presented on the example of the novella by Thomas Mann A Man and His Dog and its translation into Polish by Leopold Staff how the cognitve...
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