Anna Kozłowska "Od psalmów słowiańskich do rzymskich medytacji. O stylu artystycznym Karola Wojtyły" Warszawa 2013, ss. 358

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Metaphoric Ways of Presenting God and The Relation Between God and Man in Polish Proverbs

The aim of the author is an attempt to show metaphoric ways of presenting God and the relations God-man in Polish proverbs. The analysis of the research material shows that figurative images of God are strictly related to everyday life and daily occupations of an average user of Polish, especially trade, craft, construction, medicine, finances, education. It is not odd that these branches of life, generally acknowledged and respected, have become a basis for depictions of God as the highest value. It is also vital that metaphorical images of God and His relations to man are identical with the Christian idea of the Creator. What is more, almost all the metaphors of God present in the research material have their equivalents in the quotations from the Scriptures. Thus, we observe both the influence of the Bible on common images of the nature of God and the impact of the original (dating back to the times when the Bible was coming into existence), ‘naïve’ and commmon-sense vision of the world on biblical images of the Creator.Dr hab. BEATA KURYŁOWICZ – adiunkt w Instytucie Filologii Polskiej Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku. Autorka książek "Język polski w szesnastowiecznych księgach miejskich Knyszyna" (Białystok 2004) i "Semantyka nazw kwiatów w poezji Młodej Polski" (Białystok 2012), a także kilkudziesięciu artykułów z zakresu historycznej polszczyzny regionalnej północno-wschodniej, językowego obrazu świata tekstów artystycznych oraz stylistyki tekstów artystycznych.Uniwersytet w Białymstoku13/2374

Polemika z Martą Piszczatowską, autorką recenzji monografii Język polski w szesnastowiecznych księgach miejskich Knyszyna, autorstwa Beaty Kuryłowicz

Tekst jest odpowiedzią na recenzję książki Język polski w szesnastowiecznych księgach miejskich Knyszyna, autorstwa Marty Piszczatowskiej

Anna Tyrpa, Cudzoziemcy i obce kraje w dialektach, Kraków 2011, ss. 320

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Tekst poetycki jako materiał źródłowy do poznania modernistycznych sposobów konceptualizacji świata (na przykładzie analizy semantycznej leksemu dziewanna)

The present article discusses the role of poetic texts in recreating and reestablishing modernist means for the conceptualization of the world. The article has been divided into two parts. The first part is to present the theoretical considerations on the participation of poetic materials in revealing the meaning of lexical units and the world’s conceptualization generated by a language lexicon. The other part includes a semantic analysis of the lexeme dziewanna (mullein), whose conceptual model has been reconstructed on the basis of modernist poetic texts. The analysis of artistic texts has made it possible to demonstrate conceptually the fundamental, though not attested in systemic facts, special features of the lexeme: [dziewanna] “has golden and yellow leaves”, “has a long and straight stem”, “is tall” and “blooms in summer”. Poetic texts also attest to the attribution “grows on barren land”, which has been preserved in the Polish proverb: Gdzie rośnie dziewanna, tam bez posagu panna (literally: [homestead] where mullein grows is where a portionless maid lives) All considerations done so far also indicate that the most important place within the conceptual framework of the word is occupied by the elements that belong to the domain: PHYSICAL FEATURES, and the range of colour characteristics in particular. These elements form a strong part of the semantic core of the name and determine numerous connotations such as: “beauty”, “perfectness”, “brightness”, “purity”, “joy”, “vitality”, “biological determination”, “joy of living”, “youth” and “health”, “fertility of nature”, “fertility”, “abundance”, “richness”, “eroticism” and “sexual appeal”. The conventionalized character of the elements of the sub-framework: PLACE OF GROWTH – “grows on sands, waste grounds”, “grows in desolate places” influences the relatively well-developed structure of this section of the conceptual model of the word. The environmental features of the name justify, in turn, the following connotations: “penury”, “loneliness” and “abandonment”. Its locative characteristics also includes the image of the flower in which the connotations such as “heroic loneliness”, “perseverance despite the odds” come into the foreground

Ewa Sławkowa, Tekst literacki w kręgu językoznawstwa, t. 1, Katowice 2012, ss. 218

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Wizja afrykańskiego czasu w reportażach Ryszarda Kapuścińskiego

Time is one of the main categories that affect human life. Various communities, nations or tribes perceive and understand time in a different way. In every case understanding of time determines the character of a particular culture.The purpose of this article is an attempt to show the concept of time as a part of the African reality revealed in the literary reportages by R. Kapuściński. The author of “Ebony”, through linguistic and stylistic material, creates a conception of time characteristic of the residents of the Black Continent. Understanding of time is one of the elements of reality in Africa which Kapuœciñski wanted to convey in the most accurate manner. But he knew that the reproducing of the African world is not possible,therefore, the image of time presented on the pages of “Ebony” was his personal perception of the phenomenon, the artistic creation where an objectively existing fragment of reality was filtered through the imagination of the author, his cognitive, intellectual and psychophysical abilities. Kapuściński, by means of linguistic and stylistic expressions, gave literary form to what he saw, heard and read about the African concept of time. First of all, in descriptions of time, the most prominent feature is the author’s tendency to build opposition. Kapuściński confronts two concepts of time: the African and the European. In this way he emphasizes the differences in understanding of the concept of time in both aforementioned cultures, and, at the same time, he highlights the characteristics of time typical to African culture. The accumulation of stylistic devices, unique use of words, selection of appropriate lexis and emphasizing the connotative value of words serve one purpose – to express difficult to convey aspects of African time.Thus, the individual author’s style contributes to the vision of African time, affects modeling of its meaning and imprints a profound, special influence on the actual image of time which is used as a base for a creative play both with imagination and a matter of language

Ryszard Tokarski, "Światy za słowami. Wykłady z semantyki leksykalnej" Lublin 2013, ss. 372

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