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Papers by Ewa Komorowska
Beyond Philology, Sep 15, 2023
University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences eBooks, Dec 31, 2021
Beyond Philology An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching, 2021
The aims of this paper are the following: defining gratitude as a speech act and placing it in th... more The aims of this paper are the following: defining gratitude as a speech act and placing it in the group of other speech acts as well as presenting the specificity of its functioning in terms of pragmalinguistic methodology. The analyzed material includes contexts of the speech act of gratitude, with examples coming from contemporary Polish.
Tradycja i nowoczesność. Z zagadnień języka i literatury Słowian Wschodnich 2, 2020
The paper deals with the phenomenon of approximate, taking into consideration Polish and Russian.... more The paper deals with the phenomenon of approximate, taking into consideration Polish and Russian. Approximate is understood as sound similarity of words which have different meanings. The research material consists of approximate nouns excerpted from two dictionaries: Rosyjsko-polski słownik paraleli leksykalnych [The Russian-Polish dictionary of lexical parallels] by W. Dubiczyński (in preparation) and Rosyjsko-polski słownik homonimów międzyjęzykowych [The Russian-Polish dictionary of interlingual homonyms] by K. Kusal. Approximate may be divided into two basic groups: complete approximate, which have identical graphic notation and sound almost identical, but differ in meaning, and incomplete approximate, which have different degrees of graphic similarity and sound similar, but differ in meaning. Complete approximate are, for example, УРÓК ‘lesson’ – UROK ‘spell, charm, grace’, and incomplete homonyms include, for example, ДИВÁН ‘sofa’ – DYWAN ‘carpet’. Approximate are subjected t...
A broad spectrum, 2014
The aim of this paper is to investigate axiological attributes of Polish colour terms. We pose th... more The aim of this paper is to investigate axiological attributes of Polish colour terms. We pose the following questions: Which colours are evaluated mostly positively, negatively and neutrally? Are there objects which are provided as both positive and negative associations of a single colour? Are the same associations evoked by different colours? We carried out a questionnaire among fifty Polish speakers. The results point to colours which are perceived most positively (green, blue and orange), negatively (grey and black), neutrally (brown), and ambivalently (red). Moreover, an association may be classified as positive, neutral or negative (e.g. blood associated with red). One association may also be provided for two colours, e.g. death as a negative association with black and white.
Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski
The aim of the paper is to present the results of a study of psychological salience of colour ter... more The aim of the paper is to present the results of a study of psychological salience of colour terms for women and men who are native speakers of Russian. In our study, we employed the elicitation list task which is a five-minute psychological test designed to determine which and to what degree colour terms are psychologically important to language users. There were 26 Russian speakers – 13 women and 13 men – who participated in the test. The test results provide us with adequate material to be used to analyze both quantitative and qualitative differences between the female and male colour lexicons, and additionally, to estimate the scope of these differences. The study confirms the observations made by other researchers, as well as the popular opinion that women have a richer selection of colour words at their disposal and that they actually know many more metonymic colour terms than men.
Czas w kulturze rosyjskiej
Životinje u frazeološkom ruhu
Roczniki Humanistyczne, 2003
This article refers to problems which have not been addressed so far and which concern the origin... more This article refers to problems which have not been addressed so far and which concern the origin, frame and structure of titles and sub-titles in Polish editions of the Bible. It also explains and orders terminological issues. Titles had appeared for the first time in nineteenth-century Polish translations of the Bible whereas their regular occurrence started in 1945. There are two purposes of the Bible titles: practical and interpretative ones thanks to which readers can easily find easy and interpret a given fragment of the Bible. Professing traditions makes titles to be repetitive forms built on the same basis to a great extent. That is why Bible titles are characterized by the lack of individuality, rare use of metaphors and the use of firm word-connections (often in the form of idiomatic combinations). Apart from that, titles are used: 1.strictly with reference to Bible tales, 2. to summarize the content of stories, 3. in quotation forms. Nominal forms - in the form of sentence equivalents - dominate in grammatical structures of the titles. Verbal forms - in the form of single or complex sentences - are used rarely. The Bible titles are present in common consciousness of each human being. The symbolics of the Bible nomenclature is very often exploited in art, a fact which proves the popularity of the Bible titles.
Beyond Philology An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching
The aim of the article is a pragmatic analysis of various linguistic communication situations in ... more The aim of the article is a pragmatic analysis of various linguistic communication situations in the light of Grice’s principle of cooperation (1975). The analysis shows that language strategies involve a deliberate flouting of the cooperative principle using various pragmatic functions. The presented communication strategies in English, German, Polish and Russian show similarities in their occurrence. The sender may convey intentions not directly, but by hidden means of expression which often become an exponent of an apparent question, a change in the argumentative direction, the use of ambiguous words, irony or even silence. Hence, we can talk about the implementation of the pragmatic functions of “language avoidance”, “counter-argumentation”, “counter-proposal”, “irony” etc.
Beyond Philology An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching
The aim of the paper is to identify the linguistic exponents of Russian compliments. The examples... more The aim of the paper is to identify the linguistic exponents of Russian compliments. The examples which will be analyzed come from contemporary Russian. We will consider direct and indirect compliments, paying attention to such phenomena as presupposition and implicature as well as to the pragmatic functions of utterances. An analysis of communication strategies will allow us to present the specific features and role of compliments in linguistic communication in Russia.
Tabula : periodicus Facultatis philosophicae Polensis; rivista della Facoltà di lettere e filosofia; Journal od the Faculty of Humanities
American Behavioral Scientist, Oct 1, 2001
Beyond Philology, Sep 15, 2023
University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences eBooks, Dec 31, 2021
Beyond Philology An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching, 2021
The aims of this paper are the following: defining gratitude as a speech act and placing it in th... more The aims of this paper are the following: defining gratitude as a speech act and placing it in the group of other speech acts as well as presenting the specificity of its functioning in terms of pragmalinguistic methodology. The analyzed material includes contexts of the speech act of gratitude, with examples coming from contemporary Polish.
Tradycja i nowoczesność. Z zagadnień języka i literatury Słowian Wschodnich 2, 2020
The paper deals with the phenomenon of approximate, taking into consideration Polish and Russian.... more The paper deals with the phenomenon of approximate, taking into consideration Polish and Russian. Approximate is understood as sound similarity of words which have different meanings. The research material consists of approximate nouns excerpted from two dictionaries: Rosyjsko-polski słownik paraleli leksykalnych [The Russian-Polish dictionary of lexical parallels] by W. Dubiczyński (in preparation) and Rosyjsko-polski słownik homonimów międzyjęzykowych [The Russian-Polish dictionary of interlingual homonyms] by K. Kusal. Approximate may be divided into two basic groups: complete approximate, which have identical graphic notation and sound almost identical, but differ in meaning, and incomplete approximate, which have different degrees of graphic similarity and sound similar, but differ in meaning. Complete approximate are, for example, УРÓК ‘lesson’ – UROK ‘spell, charm, grace’, and incomplete homonyms include, for example, ДИВÁН ‘sofa’ – DYWAN ‘carpet’. Approximate are subjected t...
A broad spectrum, 2014
The aim of this paper is to investigate axiological attributes of Polish colour terms. We pose th... more The aim of this paper is to investigate axiological attributes of Polish colour terms. We pose the following questions: Which colours are evaluated mostly positively, negatively and neutrally? Are there objects which are provided as both positive and negative associations of a single colour? Are the same associations evoked by different colours? We carried out a questionnaire among fifty Polish speakers. The results point to colours which are perceived most positively (green, blue and orange), negatively (grey and black), neutrally (brown), and ambivalently (red). Moreover, an association may be classified as positive, neutral or negative (e.g. blood associated with red). One association may also be provided for two colours, e.g. death as a negative association with black and white.
Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski
The aim of the paper is to present the results of a study of psychological salience of colour ter... more The aim of the paper is to present the results of a study of psychological salience of colour terms for women and men who are native speakers of Russian. In our study, we employed the elicitation list task which is a five-minute psychological test designed to determine which and to what degree colour terms are psychologically important to language users. There were 26 Russian speakers – 13 women and 13 men – who participated in the test. The test results provide us with adequate material to be used to analyze both quantitative and qualitative differences between the female and male colour lexicons, and additionally, to estimate the scope of these differences. The study confirms the observations made by other researchers, as well as the popular opinion that women have a richer selection of colour words at their disposal and that they actually know many more metonymic colour terms than men.
Czas w kulturze rosyjskiej
Životinje u frazeološkom ruhu
Roczniki Humanistyczne, 2003
This article refers to problems which have not been addressed so far and which concern the origin... more This article refers to problems which have not been addressed so far and which concern the origin, frame and structure of titles and sub-titles in Polish editions of the Bible. It also explains and orders terminological issues. Titles had appeared for the first time in nineteenth-century Polish translations of the Bible whereas their regular occurrence started in 1945. There are two purposes of the Bible titles: practical and interpretative ones thanks to which readers can easily find easy and interpret a given fragment of the Bible. Professing traditions makes titles to be repetitive forms built on the same basis to a great extent. That is why Bible titles are characterized by the lack of individuality, rare use of metaphors and the use of firm word-connections (often in the form of idiomatic combinations). Apart from that, titles are used: 1.strictly with reference to Bible tales, 2. to summarize the content of stories, 3. in quotation forms. Nominal forms - in the form of sentence equivalents - dominate in grammatical structures of the titles. Verbal forms - in the form of single or complex sentences - are used rarely. The Bible titles are present in common consciousness of each human being. The symbolics of the Bible nomenclature is very often exploited in art, a fact which proves the popularity of the Bible titles.
Beyond Philology An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching
The aim of the article is a pragmatic analysis of various linguistic communication situations in ... more The aim of the article is a pragmatic analysis of various linguistic communication situations in the light of Grice’s principle of cooperation (1975). The analysis shows that language strategies involve a deliberate flouting of the cooperative principle using various pragmatic functions. The presented communication strategies in English, German, Polish and Russian show similarities in their occurrence. The sender may convey intentions not directly, but by hidden means of expression which often become an exponent of an apparent question, a change in the argumentative direction, the use of ambiguous words, irony or even silence. Hence, we can talk about the implementation of the pragmatic functions of “language avoidance”, “counter-argumentation”, “counter-proposal”, “irony” etc.
Beyond Philology An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching
The aim of the paper is to identify the linguistic exponents of Russian compliments. The examples... more The aim of the paper is to identify the linguistic exponents of Russian compliments. The examples which will be analyzed come from contemporary Russian. We will consider direct and indirect compliments, paying attention to such phenomena as presupposition and implicature as well as to the pragmatic functions of utterances. An analysis of communication strategies will allow us to present the specific features and role of compliments in linguistic communication in Russia.
Tabula : periodicus Facultatis philosophicae Polensis; rivista della Facoltà di lettere e filosofia; Journal od the Faculty of Humanities
American Behavioral Scientist, Oct 1, 2001