The study of dynamic codes in various social and legal conditions and the problems of agnonymy in intercultural communication allow us to automatically assert that collective memory and a common past are the basis of socialism, language, as a true chronicler, records everything in its linguistic picture of the world. The informative value of a communicative unit is determined not only by its correlations with a specific denotate, but also by the specific emotional-aesthetic attitude of native speakers towards...

This paper presents the notion of taboo in the context of a social phenomenon identified with a strong exclusion that simultaneously binds nature and culture. Trying to define it, you can say that taboos are not just what cannot be named, what cannot be done, but also what cannot be thought of. This term is connected with a strong ban and fear. Sexual life, along with all its forms, ranging from debauchery to restraint, from...

This article discusses the role of context in arts and aesthetic theory and demonstrates that contextual analysis broadens our understanding of these two realms. It demonstrates a codification of an important controversy in aesthetic theory and arts between formalist and contextualist theories. It serves as a means to highlighting some moments in the development of aesthetics and arts that contributed to the rejection of old paradigms (disinterest theory, formalism) and instigated a move towards a...

In this article author discusses the play/performance of Andrzej Sadowski Mayakovski reactivation. In the structure of the performance, he notices elements of the poet’s biography, elements taken from a computer game, elements referring to Majakowski’s texts (intertext). All this makes the performance become a kind of game with Majakowski’s texts and at the same time plays with contemporary conventions, expressed in the form of virtual reality. It also creates a reality referring to alternative history

While analyzing a song we can concentrate on its three main aspects: how we look at the song, how we respond to the song and how we think about the story in the lyrics. A song is lyrics and music that illuminate a particular reality. We focus on places and people it mentions, on the sounds we hear, on the personal reactions to the lyrics, the music and the imagery it evokes. We often think...

The article characterizes the main features Bocheński’s conception of Analytic Philosophy. In the first part, we present the difference between Analytic Philosophy and different world-views. Then we discuss the forth rules of analysis, and finally we refer to the practical and social role of Analytic Philosophy pointed out by Bocheński.

The article is coauthored and analyses reading as a method of learning foreign languages and touches upon students’ perception of the issue. To this end the survey was carried out involving the students of Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki w Bydgoszczy. This paper is based on a brief theoretical overview, the analysis of the questionnaires and their data. The authors analyze the results of the survey and define the prospects for development and use of reading as a means of learning...

Summary: Estimated calculations of the war losses suffered by Poland in the area of cultural goods are about 13,000 paintings, about 1,400 sculptures, about 125,000 manuscripts, 22,000 old prints, 25,000 maps and about 15 million books. Loss of library collections is estimated at around 66%. Many of them were irretrievably destroyed as a result of unplanned and planned actions of destruction and plunder of Polish cultural goods by the German and Soviet invaders. To this...

The main aim of this paper is to answer the question which appears in its title. In order to do so, I analyse the mind style of the eponymous character from Boris Akunin’s book The Decorator (1999). The notion of mind style coined by Roger Fowler relates to a unique correlation between certain linguistic constructions (metaphors, transitive patterns, underlexicalization) and their role in projecting particular world-views. The analysis shows that in the case of Akunin’s...

The present paper explores the current nexus between Cognitive Linguistics (CL) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), focusing on theories of conceptual positioning, distancing and perspective-taking in discourse space. It assesses the strengths, limitations, and prospects for further operationalization of positioning as a valid methodology in CDA, and political discourse studies in particular. In the first part, I review the cognitive models of positioning that have made the most significant contribution to CDA. Discussing Deictic Space...

The article presents the procedure of altering Polish last names as it is pictured in examples of anthroponyms taken from the historical novel The Knights of the Cross written by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Characteristics of onomastics, as the one of many fields of the linguistic studies and the literary onomastics, which is a part of it, preludes the analysis performed in this paper. The emphasis has been put on one of the areas of this study...

Globalisation, close economic relations and the vicinity of Germany and Poland, have resulted in the need for translations of economic and legal texts in the Polish-German language pair. The aim of this paper is to present the state of research on translations of Polish codes into German. The first results of a confrontational analysis of the terminology of the Polish Penal Code and its printed German translations, which is the subject of the doctoral dissertation...

The article analyses the examples of usage of the nouns jeans and sausage in the book Second hand time by Svetlana Aleksievich. These nouns have the function of contextual emotional and ideological terms. Their usage reflects the emotional dichotomy between the imagination and views of the post-Soviet society concerning the current political situation (resulting mainly from the systemic changes related to perestroika), and social moods conditioned by politics.

The article reviews specific features of the Georgian linguistic world image shaped during the long period of its existence. The analysis covers the cultural concepts and language markers that reflect the national characteristics. Being a special kind of cross-cultural communication, translation is a process of overcoming the linguistic and cultural barriers, and includes transcoding of language code as well as the cultural one. On the one hand, it uncovers the discrepancies between the key concepts in different...

The constantly evolving job market in Poland demands professional development from employees, which is increasingly associated with modern foreign languages or even technical language learning. This creates not only a great demand for new employees, but also a demand for well-qualified teachers who can train the company’s employees in foreign and technical languages. Therefore, not only the employers, but also the universities, face a major challenge. The aim of this article is to examine the...

Summary: The article presents an analysis of lexicographic description and structure of abbreviations registered in the Russian-Polish Great Sports Dictionary by Zbigniew Fedus. The introductory part defines the purpose of the research and characterizes the source of language material. Each of the analytical parts was preceded by a theoretical outline of the issues discussed - the translation of acronyms and their construction. In the course of work, four models of lexicographic description and two basic...

Summary: George Chandos Bidwell was the Head of the British Council between 1946 and 1949. After he had met the love of his life, Anna Wirszyłło a supposed UB-agent, he decided to change his nationality to Polish. The aim of the article is to plasticize the matter of the internal change in Bidwell in the view of historical events described in the documents archived in TNA in Kew, London. Keywords: George Bidwell, cultural identity, change...

The sketch devoted to the parallel creation spaces in the works of Leopold Staff’s and Bolesław Leśmian’s is an attempt to show the way reality – in which the poets portray – in conjunction with a mirror. In the analyzed works, the lyrics revealing similarities in borderline and epistemological situations in the lives of the heroes of Staff’s and Leśmian’s were subjected to interpretation. The use and sexual transformation of the Narcissus myth was indicated, using...

The color in the culture of many nations plays an important role and is an important component of human functioning. In the names of colors reflected is the conceptualization of the world of colors seen through the prism of culture. This article analyzes the color lexis and its place in the Russian linguo-cultural area. The subject of the research is color semiotics on various levels of human activity. Moreover, the analysis has shown that the...

Currently interest in Slavic and sometimes pagan culture is undergoing a Renaissance phase. It seems reasonable to remind that also in enlightenment writers willingly reached for these threads, reinterpreting them. Among them, it is worth paying attention to the tragedy Krakus of Jan Chodźko, preserved in fragments, which was created in 1804, during a period of intensified dramatic activity, initiated by a competition announced in 1803 by the Society of Friends of Sciences for a tragedy based on historical...

The aim of this work is to reconstruct the linguisitic and cultural view of a Pole from our neighbours’ perspective, including Russians, Lithuanians, Belorussians, Ukrainians, Slovaks, Czechs, and Germans. The primary research method used in this work was the linquistic world’s view method by Jerzy Bartmiński, and the concept of a stereotype as a stabilised view of someone or somethingAn important goal of my study was to compare my survey results with the results of...

Summary: It can be taken for granted that the names of Polish companies quite clearly indicate the era in which they operate. Enterprises were called differently in the years 1944-1970, when marketing was considered both as an obstacle and economically not necessary. In 1971- 1989, the naming of Polish companies was something intermediate between recognition of marketing principles and bureaucratic principles of a centrally planned economy. After 1990, many Polish companies try to be as...

Summary: This article is an attempt to show the richness of the phenomenon of storytelling as a narrative processed by deep brain structures due to the content conveyed in a fictional way, in the form of a story that gives the message more distinctive and persuasive power. Since information processing is a key phase in the process of gathering information and indirectly remembering it, both cognitive processes will also be characterized in terms of their...

The author discussed the etymology of few words used in Polish criminal jargon, from the 19th century until the interwar period. These words belong to the category „theft of poultry”. In this text the author pesented the lexemes listed in the oldest Polish sociolectical dictionaries, e.g.: artyleria, huzar, ślepucha, mróz, pejsak, kurarz, piechociarz. Mainly presented words didn’t survive, today they aren’t appearing in non-standard dialect. This article filled the gap in the research on the...