Browsing Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica T. 58 (2020) nr 3 by Title
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Bez sensu as an act of communication
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The article presents a communication-based analysis of the function of the ‘bez sensu’ [meaningless/ pointless/makes no sense etc.] phraseme. The author discusses the conversational and discursive opportunities for using ... -
The category of aspect vs. meaning
Habrajska, Grazyna
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)
The article offers an analysis of the perfective aspect within the approach of communicational grammar. The author provided an overview of selected verbs with a communication-based analysis of those which consist of ... -
The City of Man and the critique of fascism: The perspective of Hermann Broch
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The City of Man initiative, with a conscious reference to Saint Augustine’s De civitate Dei, wanted to build a system after the First World War that would ensure free and unfettered human development. This initiative was ... -
A comparison between the concept of Newspeak in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel and the way of thinking about language in C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The aim of the article is to investigate some of the possible sources of inspiration for Orwell’s concept of the artificial language called Newspeak, which, in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, is shown as an effective tool ... -
Contemporary communication and ratiomorphization of meaning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)In the article, I attempted to indicate that in modern communication, i.e. also in social life, ratiomorphism has been appearing. I define it as an unconscious, innate, genetically determined and teleonomically survival-driven ... -
Culture in the service of politics. The German question and relations between the German Democratic Republic and the Polish People’s Republic
Ostrowski, Marek (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)
The politics of memory and culture of the Polish People’s Republic alludes to Ideologiekritik in its idiosyncratic way characterized by Marxist utopianism. In reality, this leads to reversing this theory. The causes of ... -
The (d)evolution of political communication in Italy: Beppe Grillo’s case
Berezowski, Łukasz Jan; (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)
The article aims at analyzing the case of Beppe Grillo and his Five Stars Movement in terms of social, cultural and linguistic phenomenon that – initially as a virtual party without a structured organization – seems to ... -
Deception in negotiations. Creating the vision of desired states
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The article offers an analysis of the topic of negotiations, from the most concreto area (finances) to the most abstract (status and feelings), and then an analysis of the many meanings of the term profit, which in ... -
Does standard interpretation exist? Empirical verification of selected assumptions of communicational grammar
Filipczak-Białkowska, Anita (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)
The article poses a major study question: “Does standard interpretation exist?” In the methodology of communicational grammar, to which the author refers, standard interpretation is defined as a generalised pattern of the ... -
Henryk Sienkiewicz’s output and literary censorship in the DDR
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)Works by Henryk Sienkiewicz, a Polish writer and the winner of the 1905 Nobel Prize for Literature, were subjected to verification by the DDR’s censorship apparatus several times. Censors considered his novellas which ... -
Hidden meaning in art
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The author discusses the notion of the interpretation of a work of art. Starting with the assumption that the expression “Art’s hidden meaning” should be understood as a search for narrative plots that can be detected ... -
The impact of a YouTuber’s lively gesticulation on his image. The case of Wojtek Drewniak and his Historia bez cenzury
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The aim of the article is to verify the importance of gesticulation on one’s image in the popular science discourse based on YouTube videos by Wojciech Drewniak, a historian. The study employed the formula of an experiment ... -
In search of linguistic meaning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The aim of the article is to define the relationship between the meaning included in an utterance and its formal shape. The author based his discussion on the study of natural communication. The notion of meaning is in the ... -
Introduction
Ostrowski, Marek Włodzimierz; Filipczak-Białkowska, Anita (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)
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The meaning of activities in Okolice Sztuki – much went on at Strych
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The text is a commentary to the phenomena in Polish modern art in the final years of the 20th century. It constitutes a “first-hand” account by a participant of the events and the host of the location. The location was the ... -
Meaning. Are the tools of rhetoric useful in studying the matter?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The discussion centres around two issues: the issue of meaning, and the question whether the tools of rhetoric viewed as the basic tool in interpersonal communication (be it everyday or specialist communication) can be ... -
Narration as the production of sense using the example of a music video of the song All by Myself by Celine Dion
Ostrowski, Marek (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)
The narration in the music video to Celine Dion’s song All By Myself is a linearly organised construct or composition equipped with features of logicality, which organises specific linguistic or image-based material. It ... -
On the fairness of understanding a communicated message
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The author assumed that a fair understanding of communication is such a reception which is close to the content, intent and mode assigned to it by the sender. That reception depends on the extent of the knowledge of a ... -
Philosophy modules on journalism courses at Polish higher education establishments and the search for meaning. A few remarks for discussion
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The article refers to the issue of journalism education at university, in terms of the philosophical categories of meaning and truth. The author analyses the curricula of selected Polish higher education institutions in ... -
Political communication of Germany as a state of mature democracy in the context of the migrant crisis of the 2010s
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The aim of the article is the media and political analysis of the political discourse of German Chancellor Angela Merkel regarding refugees, launched by the famous slogan Wir schaffen das! The time study covers the period ...