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Krzysztof Maćkowiak : Growth dynamics of the Polish stylistic thought in the period 1910–1939
The period 1910-1939 was the time of building
foundations of Polish academic stylistics. This paper
enumerates the most significant texts determining the
said process. They contributed to creating the
substantive base of the new discipline. There are no
separate monographs among the discussed statements
(although they were announced by S. Wędkiewicz and
H. Gaertner). However, they were successfully replaced
by longer or shorter articles stating the programme,
polemical comments, and finally, reviews of particular
material studies.
We suggest dividing the emancipation process of
the Polish stylistic doctrine, the opening of which was
the text announced in 1910 under the title
Dotychczasowy stan stylistyki polskiej i najważniejsze
postulaty jej na przyszłość (The state of Polish stylistics
and its most significant postulates for the future to date)
by L. Komarnicki, and the ending of which was the
outbreak of World War II – with full awareness of the
conventionality of the distinguished stages – into three
phases, i.e. the precursory period (1910-1914), the
Kraków debate period (1921-1926), the multithreaded
methodological search period (1930-1939). The most
active participants of the debate taking place within the
said timeframe included S. Wędkiewicz, H. Gaertner,
Z. Łempicki and K. Budzyk. Yet the group of people
writing about style and stylistics was continuously
extending at that time.
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Jolanta Kowalewska-Dąbrowska : The poetic image of death in rev. Janusz Pasierb’s idiolect
This paper presents manners of creating DEATH
in works by Janusz Pasierb. Semantic analyses of his
poems apply assumptions of cultural linguistics,
which adopts the linguistic and cultural image of the
world as the basic research category. A reference to
an individual poetic image of the world is the popular
image of the world that is well-established in the
Polish language. The performed interpretations of the
works related to death (closely connected with life),
which is an important existential experience, prove
that the basic culturally established cognitive
metaphor: DEATH IS A JOURNEY and LIFE IS
A JOURNEY, is most common in those works. This
metaphor is put into practice from the viewpoint of
a man of faith, that is within the LIFE and DEATH IS
A JOURNEY TO GOD variant. Semantic analyses
demonstrate how, by means of which stylistic
devices, the writer formed a specific individual image
of DEATH falling into the framework of general
cognitive patterns.
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Małgorzata Karwatowska,
Beata Jarosz : Communication and linguistic patterns in light of the contemporary literature
Perceiving the role fulfilled by literature to date,
communicating a socially significant system of
values, teaching sensitivity and openness to others,
helping understand their problems and learn motives
for their conduct and behaviour, the authors make
an attempt to answer two questions: Is the
contemporary literature an indicator of a standard,
a measure of beautiful and careful Polish? Is it then
a model or an anti-model of communication and
language for the recipient? They subject lexical
layers of several novels published in the past two
decades to analysis. They conclude that men of
letters excessively freely and critically approach all
standards, and make the language of the street
a material for an artistic expression. Hence, antiaestheticism,
that is a conscious opposition to
and diversion from positive aesthetic values, and
acceptance of aesthetically negative values, such
as ugliness, quirkiness, strangeness, disgust,
aggressiveness, brutality, vulgarity, is becoming
characteristic.
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Grzegorz Dąbkowski : Colloquialism in Polish and Czech headings
This paper includes results of an analysis of
colloquial elements in headings of Polish and Czech
news portals published on the Internet within
90 successive days. The results of the analysis do
not confirm the initial assumption that Czech
headings are characterised by a higher degree of
colloquialism.
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Anna Suchodolska : The jargon used by Polish-speaking cardiologists and cardiac surgeons – a semantic and derivational analysis
This paper is dedicated to the study of the Polish
medical sociolect. This paper highlights that: 1) the
lexemes that are most commonly used by Polish
cardiologists and cardiac surgeons are related to
operations, diagnostics and medical treatment; 2) the
cardiologists and cardiac surgeons’ image of the
world is “anthropocentric”; 3) linguistic creativity is
a distinctive feature of Polish physicians; 4) the Polish
medical sociolect could be characterised by the
tendency for the sociolect-specific words to gain
a broader meaning whilst the form stays the same;
5) Polish tends to borrow words from English.
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Anna Piotrowicz,
Małgorzata Witaszek-Samborska : The linguistic image of the woman in the Poznań dialect
This paper aims to reconstruct the image of the
woman comprised in lexical items of the Poznań
dialect. The research material (circa 100 lexemes)
were excerpted from Słownik gwary miejskiej
Poznania (Dictionary of the Poznań urban dialect)
edited by Monika Gruchmanowa and Bogdan
Walczak (ed. 2. with a supplement, Warsaw – Poznań
1999). The image of the woman was reconstructed
with consideration for selected semantic categories,
such as age, physical appearance, personality,
behaviour, social relations, professional life and
forms of spending leisure time. This image in the
Poznań urban dialect does not deviate – similarly to
that of the man – from the popular image. What is
visible there is primarily negative characteristics
expressed by lexemes with a strong emotional tinge.
Observations regarding the image of both sexes in
the linguistic image of the rural population, where
stereotypical perception of characteristics and social
roles of women and men, were also confirmed.
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Agata Kwaśnicka-Janowicz : The place of beekeeping terminology in variants of the Polish language
This paper aims to define the notion of
and its location in the
lexical system of both historical and contemporary
Polish. By the adoption of the sociolinguistic
description methodology, this paper is also an
attempt to engage in polemic against propositions to
describe beekeeping terminology as a functionally
specialised portion of dialect lexis (a type of folk
terminology). The description of beekeeping
terminology in sociolect categories permits its
characterisation as a supraregional social and
professional variant of the language, which – upon
the disappearance of this form of forestry beekeeping
– has been preserved in the archaic layer of the
contemporary beekeeping and forestry terminology.
