The goal of the article is twofold. The first one is to provide logics based on positional semantics which will be suitable for the analysis of epistemic modalities such as ‘agent ... knows/beliefs that ...’. The second ...

This paper deals with the history of the development of canon tables in early medieval manuscripts. The author concentrates on the role of the architectural decoration of canon tables. This type of decoration was very ...

Among several domains of everyday life marked by the language taboo we can distinguish the sector of female lingerie which, referring to parts of the human body called shameful, resorts to euphemization to escape the ...

In French comic quoted forms mechanisms of comism connected with taboo can be defined by means of semantic and stylistic analysis, however, the most comprehensive description can be obtained by employing linguistic pragmatics ...

In this article we tried to extend and clarify some aspects of our previous research concerning the linguistic taboo. We selected examples belonging to the political, social or current speech from communist-era Romanian ...

There is no doubt that Shakespeare is “the flagship commodity” in the globalized cultural market. The fact that his works are being studied, performed, and admired, or, adapted and parodied almost all over the world, would ...

W publikacji zaprezentowano sylwetkę Tadeusza Czapczyńskiego, jednego z wybitnych polonistów międzywojnia, działacza oświatowego, autora podręczników i książek dla nauczycieli, badacza literatury i literata. Szczególnie ...