Współczesna grzeczność językowa w świadomości poznańskich kleryków

Based on a questionnaire survey conducted in a group of 100 students from the two Poznań seminaries, the authors of the article are trying to reconstruct the language awareness of young clergy in the field of polite linguistic habits. The responses show that for the vast majority of clerics language politeness is perceived as an action focused on interpretation (as an individual and socially), that they well understand its importance for communication, that they consider both a lack of politeness and exaggerated, artificial politeness as improper. Some respondents use the vocabulary associated with religion (e.g. bliźni, brat, chrześcijański), and they also indicate a kind of compulsion to be polite – the need to respect the rules of political correctness. Clerics recognize the differences between the politeness of language in their dealings with their peers and with older people, especially with the larger distance in relation to the elderly. In addition, they take into account, although less frequently, age, dependence on the environment, education, level of maturity.Na podstawie badania ankietowego przeprowadzonego w grupie 100 kleryków z dwu poznańskich seminariów Autorki artykułu próbują zrekonstruować świadomość językową młodych osób duchownych w zakresie grzecznościowych zwyczajów językowych. Z odpowiedzi wynika, że zdecydowana większość kleryków postrzega grzeczność językową jako działanie nastawione na interpretację (tak indywidualną, jak i społeczną), dobrze rozumie jej wagę w komunikacji, za rażące uważa zarówno brak grzeczności, jak i grzeczność przesadną, sztuczną. Niektórzy ankietowani używają przy tym leksyki związanej z religią (np. bliźni, brat, chrześcijański), wskazują też swego rodzaju przymus grzecznościowy – konieczność respektowania zasad poprawności politycznej. Klerycy dostrzegają różnice między grzecznością językową w swoich kontaktach z rówieśnikami a z osobami starszymi zwłaszcza w większym dystansie w stosunku do starszych. Poza wiekiem uwzględniają oni, choć rzadziej, zależność od środowiska, wychowania, poziomu dojrzałości

Poznań regional vocabulary according to Richard E. Nisbett's concept of thinking geography

This article is an attempt to use the Richard Nisbett’s observations (the differences in the structure of parts of speech in the languages of East and West) to the Polish language and Poznań regional vocabulary. The analysis applies only to the lexical system, rather than the structure of words in texts. Studies confirm that the Polish language lexical system - both general and regional - is close to the languages of the West.This article is an attempt to use the Richard Nisbett’s observations (the differences in the structure of parts of speech in the languages of East and West) to the Polish language and Poznań regional vocabulary. The analysis applies only to the lexical system, rather than the structure of words in texts. Studies confirm that the Polish language lexical system - both general and regional - is close to the languages of the West

On the Colloquial Poznań Onyms Pomnik*, Adaś** and Krzyże***

The article deals with several urbanonyms existing in the urban Polish language of Poznań and connected with Adam Mickiewicz Square and the two monuments located there: of Adam Mickiewicz and of the Poznań 1956 Protests. The material has been collected by means of a survey which was conducted among 100 Polish language students and 120 older persons (at the age of 35–85 years). The results of studies enabled scholars to observe a great onymic inventiveness of Poznań residents, constantly creating new, distinctly motivated ur­banonyms, as well as a significant liveliness and an important role of those names in everyday linguistic communication of the city’s residents, and, consequently – in the regional variety of the Polish language.The article deals with several urbanonyms existing in the urban Polish language of Poznań and connected with Adam Mickiewicz Square and the two monuments located there: of Adam Mickiewicz and of the Poznań 1956 Protests. The material has been collected by means of a survey which was conducted among 100 Polish language students and 120 older persons (at the age of 35–85 years). The results of studies enabled scholars to observe a great onymic inventiveness of Poznań residents, constantly creating new, distinctly motivated ur­banonyms, as well as a significant liveliness and an important role of those names in everyday linguistic communication of the city’s residents, and, consequently – in the regional variety of the Polish language

Maciej Rak, Jan Karłowicz w świetle materiałów archiwalnych. Dialektologia, etnolingwistyka i lituanistyka, Wydawnictwo Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2021, ss. 265

Recenzja: Maciej Rak, Jan Karłowicz w świetle materiałów archiwalnych. Dialektologia, etnolingwistyka i lituanistyka, Wydawnictwo Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2021, ss. 26

Psychological support for patients following myocardial infarction

The paper presents the principal psychological problems in patients following myocardial infarction. Particular emphasis has been placed on anxiety and depression following myocardial infarction and behavioural patterns adversely affecting health. A proposal of actions during cardiac rehabilitation has been presented in accordance with the severity of psychological problems encountered in the patients. (Cardiol J 2010; 17, 3: 319-324

Influence of aerobic training on neurohormonal and hemodynamic responses to head-up tilt test and on autonomic nervous activity at rest and after exercise in patients after bypass surgery

Background: Little is known about the influence of aerobic training on the neurohormonal and hemodynamic responses to head-up tilt (HUT) and on autonomic balance at rest and after exercise in optimally treated, low risk post-coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) patients. Methods: One hundred male patients, mean age 56 ± 6 years, 3 months after CABG, were randomized to either 6-week training on cycloergometer, 3 times a week, at 70–80% of max tolerated heart rate (HR) (training group, n = 50) or to a control group (n = 50). At baseline and at the end of the study, all patients underwent: (1) cardiopulmonary exercise test with HR recovery (HRR) assessment; (2) 60% HUT during which HR, blood pressure (BP), stroke volume (SV by impedance cardiography) were monitored and blood samples were taken for determination of plasma catecholamines and ANP levels, and plasma renin activity; (3) assessment of HR variability (HRV) in the time and frequency domains at rest. Results: During the final tests, HUT-induced changes in HR, BP, SV, cardiac output, total peripheral resistance, and noradrenaline were significantly lower in training group than in controls. In addition, after training faster post-exercise HRR, increased SDNN and a tendency towards an increase in the high frequency HRV power spectrum were found. Conclusions: Aerobic training improved neurohormonal and hemodynamic responses to head-up tilt test and favorably modified sympatho-vagal balance in low risk post-CABG patients

Nazwy osób (ze względu na cechy psychiczne) w polszczyźnie miejskiej Poznania

The article presents the regional names of persons from Poznań, considering their psychic features attributed to denotations. The repertoire of features reflected in personal names of the urban dialect of Poznań (differentiated here only from the point of view of psychic features) confirms the conclusion drawn from the analysis of quotations illustrating individual entries of Słownik gwary miejskiej Poznania (“Dictionary of the Urban Dialect of Poznań”) edited by Monika Gruchmanowa and Bogdan Walczak (and published in an earlier article), that the stereotype and autostereotype of a resident of Poznań finds no reflection in those features. The characteristics regarded as typical for poznańska pyra* (*a negative designation of Poznań residents) constitute a meaningful core for just few names (e.g. avarice in regional lexemes gryzinera // gryzinyra or nyrol), whereas more numerous are the designations connoting ordinary vices (such as: excessive agility, dishonesty, cheekiness, roguery and hooliganism, infantilism and plaintiveness, mental heaviness, stupidity, clumsiness, untidiness, talkativeness, gossipiness, querulousness, gloominess and taciturnity, wickedness, vulgarity, arrogance etc.), characteristic for people in general, regardless of their place of residence

Leksem patchwork we współczesnej polszczyźnie

The article is devoted to the semantic evolution of the word patchwork, which has become frequent in contemporary Polish. This appropriate borrowing from English was registered in Polish lexicography for the first time in 1995. In the twenty years since then, it showed its new meanings different from the original ‘artistic handicraft technique, consisting in stitching together pieces of material of different colours and shapes’, ‘composition resulting from the use of this technique’ and ‘product formed in this manner, for example bedspread, tapestry, clothes’. Nowadays, this lexeme can refer to any term referring to a particular or abstract designatum which ‘creates a coherent whole, but consists of various elements’ and also – as a derivatives of phraseology the patchwork family – means ‘a family founded by parents, at least one of whom has had a previous unsuccessful relationship or marriage involving their common children, their children from previous relationships, and sometimes also former partners and their relatives’.The article is devoted to the semantic evolution of the word patchwork, which has become frequent in contemporary Polish. This appropriate borrowing from English was registered in Polish lexicography for the first time in 1995. In the twenty years since then, it showed its new meanings different from the original ‘artistic handicraft technique, consisting in stitching together pieces of material of different colours and shapes’, ‘composition resulting from the use of this technique’ and ‘product formed in this manner, for example bedspread, tapestry, clothes’. Nowadays, this lexeme can refer to any term referring to a particular or abstract designatum which ‘creates a coherent whole, but consists of various elements’ and also – as a derivatives of phraseology the patchwork family – means ‘a family founded by parents, at least one of whom has had a previous unsuccessful relationship or marriage involving their common children, their children from previous relationships, and sometimes also former partners and their relatives’