INFORMALITY AS A VALUE IN THE PRESENT-DAY CULTURE

• Authors: Witosz B.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The authoress discusses the problem of the axiological marking of the determinants of informality, analyzed in the article as a stylistic category (simultaneously treating the style as an anthropological-cultural category). She is interested in positive valorization of colloquialism in the discourse that belongs to the so-called high culture, carried out from the point of view of an intellectual, a scientist and an artist. The evidence of positive valorization is found in the texts of contemporary humanities: philosophy, linguistics, anthropology of culture, theory of literature, literary criticism and contemporary literature and art. The found examples of valorization portray its varied shades, which are influenced by the context: philosophy looks for the sense of human existence in daily causal activities, literary criticism discovers the source of aesthetic contemplation in the everyday living, literature and art attempt to notice the signs of authenticity of our existence in the trivial pictures of ordinary nature and colloquial language. Besides, the scientific discourse positively evaluates the common-sense knowledge and the 'colloquial' attitude towards the world. In the texts of the present day humanities, such parameters of colloquialism as closeness, privacy, individuality, symmetrical ness of the interlocutors' status, advantage of co-operation over competition are also positively assessed. Axiologically positive marking of the determinants of colloquialism enables many of them to penetrate the scientific discourse, shaping the new forms of the expression of the subjectivity and forming the relationship with the reader.

Keywords

EN

COLLOQUIALISM; DISCOURSE; INFORMALITY; STYLISTIC CATEGORY; VALORISATION

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Instytut Polonistyki i Kulturoznawstwa Uniwersytetu Opolskiego
• Journal: Stylistyka
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 15
• Pages: 37-48
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Witosz B.

• B. Witosz, Uniwersytet Slaski, Instytut Jezyka Polskiego, pl. Sejmu Slaskiego 1, 40-032 Katowice, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA01853956