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Subjective structure of academic textsIn the paper I make an attempt to determine the subjective structure of scientific texts based on research of the textual category of impersonality. The category of impersonality is understood here as such a choice of means from different levels of the linguistic system (morphological, lexical, syntactical, textual) which allows to degrade or remove the semantic...
Propaganda as a scientific term for Polish political linguisticsThe purpose of the article is to provide definitions of the concept propaganda and to explain the reasons for its controversial status as a scientific term describing contemporary political texts. In lexicographic works and in the literature in the field of political linguistics, propaganda is not understood unambiguously. Polish researchers...
Expression of possessiveness in derivative substantive vocabulary of the Bulgarian and Czech languagesThe article is dedicated to researching the manifestations of possessiveness in some nouns of the Bulgarian and Czech languages. We start from the definition of possessiveness as a relation between the objects of extralinguistic reality, whereby one is the possessed object (possessum), the other one...
Semantic dictionary of kinship denominations in the Bulgarian languageThe article is a presentation of Semantic dictionary of kinship denominations in the Bulgarian language, which is integral part of my monograph Kinship and kinship denominations in the Bulgarian language (semantics and lexicographic presentation). The dictionary is organized according to digital codes (ideal terms), then a metalanguage...
“It’s too late to drink borjomi,” or Russian cultural vocabulary in the modern language spaceThis article uses the example of the Russian cultural word боржоми [“borjomi”] to demonstrate how a connotative component is formed within the lexical semantic structure of a Russian cultural word through the incorporation of parts of the historically variable background knowledge of the average native speaker...
Wortbildung und Internet / Словообразование и интернет / Tvorba riječi i internet [Word-Formation and the Internet] (Institut für Slawistik der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, 22–25.03.2016). 17th International Conference of the Word-Formation Commission of the International Committee of SlavistsThe article is a report of the 17th International Conference held on March 22–25, 2016, at the Institute...
Review: Ľubor Králik, Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny, VEDA, vydavateľstvo SAV – Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra SAV, Bratislava 2015, 700 pp.The article is a review of Ľubor Králik’s etymological dictionary, the first one of this kind devoted entirely to the Slovak language. Rec.: Ľubor Králik, Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny, VEDA, vydavateľstvo SAV – Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta...
The phenomenon of syntactic semioimplicationSemioimplicative meaning is a “derived,” secondary meaning. The typical example of a semioimplicative meaning in syntax is the use of the positive constructions in the meaning of the negative ones and vice versa (converted meaning). The semioimplicative sentence interpretation scarcely has logical limitations. Most sentences, given the right intonation,...
On the equivalents of the Greek ὁ ναόϛ, ἡ ἐκκλησία, τό ἁγίασμα, τό ἁγιαστήριον and ἡ ἁγιωσύνη in CS Psalter redactionsThe paper refers to the lexical variety of translations reflected in CS redactions of the Book of Psalms. It is focused on semantic and quantitative analysis of the use of Slavonic equivalents of the Greek ὁ ναόϛ, ἡ ἐκκλησία, τό ἁγίασμα, τό ἁγιαστήριον and ἡ ἁγιωσύνη (i.e., of vocabulary...
Annalistic oikonymy as a source for reconstruction of the Old Russian vocabularyAmong about 1,000 place names mentioned in the Old Russian chronicles (within the borders of contemporary Russia), there are 19 ones that are derived from stems non-attested as apellatives in the Old Russian written sources. The vast majority of them can be reconstructed by comparison with words of modern East Slavic languages...
Some remarks about the development of secondary spatial prepositionsThe literature devoted to spatial prepositions is quite abundant. The present article constitutes a recapitulation of the historical research which has heretofore been done on the subject. It is also an attempt at presenting the general characteristics of the evolution undergone by the class of units being described. This class is...
To the memory of Professor Violetta KoseskaThis paper is devoted to an outstanding scholar. Violetta Koseska was a professor of synchronic linguistics and the author and co-author of many major theories in contrastive analysis. One only needs to mention theoretical contrastive analysis with mediating semantic language, which plays a key role in equivalent simultaneous description of multiple languages,...
Review: Jana Marková, Religiöse Konzepte im tschechischen nationalen Diskurs (1860–1885), Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim – Zürich – New York 2016, 371 pp.The article reviews a book, which analyzes a portion of Czech national discourse of the second half of the 19th century, looking into the vocabulary it used to express concepts characteristic of the discourse of religion. The research material is...
Slavic equivalents to the English term sustainabilityThe paper examines the issue of how the term sustainable development (sustainability), coined exactly 30 years ago by the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development, has been reproduced in the Slavic languages. The history of the primary English term’s first use as well as its source have been discussed, with special consideration...
Valency of Russian verba sentiendi in the light of explicative syntaxThe subject of this article are syntactic (distributional) properties of Russian sentimental verbs (denoting emotions, moods, affects, passions etc.) in a synchronistic view. 319 units of modern Russian language are studied using a theoretical model of explicative syntax, i.e., representation of the propositional structure at the...
Taronyms in linguistic humour in Dorota Masłowska’s Snow white and Russian red and their translation into RussianErroneous mixing of linguistic units is one of the most common departures from the norm in novels. This linguistic device has two functions: 1) it presents the characters in the novel, 2) it constitutes a great source of puns and linguistic humour. Such misused words are known as taronyms...
Microtoponyms as a way of creating folk cultural places – the approach of linguistic anthropologyThe paper deals with selected issues of linguistic anthropology with the purpose to examine a few theoretical assumptions of its methodology, taking into account Keith H. Basso’s study on the creation of cultural places as a result of linguistic activity. The research is based on the empirical material...
Review: Maciej Rak, Kazimierz Sikora (eds.), Słowiańska frazeologia gwarowa, Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2016, 277 pp.The article is a review of a collective volume devoted to various aspects of Slavic dialectal phraseology and paremiology. The work, edited by M. Rak and K. Sikora, contains both general theoretical studies and results of more detailed research. Rec.: Maciej Rak, Kazimierz Sikora...
The Grammar of the Kashubian Language – recognition and description of the structure of the contemporary Kashubian. Response to criticismThe article is a response to criticism of Hanna Makurat’s book titled The Grammar of the Kashubian Language; the book, published in 2016, is the first normative description of contemporary Kashubian. The Kashubian newspaper Skra has published a review which questioned...
Imaging the events of the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity (based on the anthology Mystets’kyĭ Barbakan: Trykutnyk 92: Antolohiia)The source of the analysed material is the anthology Mystets’kyĭ Barbakan, only 300 copies of which have been printed. It is a collection of works of literature, journalism, and art from the period of the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity (the so-called Maĭdan) of 2013–2014...
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