The article has one aim: research correlation between Nisbett’s conception of geography of thought and its linguistic confirmations, on the word-formation level. I analysed word-formation categories of Polish noun. Thesis about Western property of Polish derivative system (and polish thought, categorization) take the confirmation.
Recenzja. Yury Fedorushkov, Adaptacja warsztatu leksykograficznego do automatyzacji rozpoznawania frazemów w systemie uczącym się (na przykładzie konstrukcji werbo-nominalnych języka rosyjskiego), Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań 2019, ss. 292
In the article, I discuss the legal aspects of language: using linguistic analyses for the benefit of the courts. I discuss linguists’ court communication situation and the expectations towards them. The starting point is one exemplary court case in which an expert linguist was appointed to issue an opinion on the evidence. The conclusions fall into two categories: linguistics and forensic science. Linguistic conclusions, developed in accordance with traditional methods of lexicographic analysis and lexicological and semantic analysis, are not necessarily (because they would not have to be) innovative for linguists. It was more important to show the situation of a linguist in court, the structure of judicial opinion and the procedures for building the linguistic response to a process inquiry as seen from the forensic perspective.
The present article analyses trigrams – words constructions that have properties of phrasemes. The studied trigrams have been excerpted from task-oriented dialogues (conducted between participants of a linguistic experiment). It turns out that phrasematic trigrams perform different communication and semantic functions: establishing and enhancing contact, feedback positive, “simple adverbiality” and “complex adverbiality”. The article is a follow-up to the author’s previous article on bi-grams: Bi-grams – Repetitive Two-word-structures in Task-oriented Dialogues.
The article discusses the problems associated with segmented into separate sentences the stream of spoken language. There are both: theoretical problems (what is utterance?, what are its boundaries?, what are the theoretical proposals for the segmentation of utterances?), and practical problems (where is the real border between the two utterances in spoken language?, what criteria of segmentation stream of spoken language can be used?). The language material – which is the basis for the research presented in this article – comes from twenty task-oriented dialogue sessions with the participation of forty speakers performing a specific task. As a result of the analysis, based on available positions and theoretical reflection I managed to develop a tool for syntactical segmentation of the stream of spoken language. This tool can be presented in the form of a new (innovative) concept of definition of the utterance.
The work conducted for over ten months at IPI PAN has resulted in the creation of a working (and still further developed) corpus of the 20th-century Polish parliamentarisms. The corpus was created using parliamentary transcripts from the years 1918–2018 and as for now it contains nearly 200 million segments. On this basis, a preliminary analytical work on the language of the Polish parliamentarism of the twentieth century is being conducted. One of the first issues is the preliminary lexicographical and lexicological analysis of the assembled corpus. In order to show the extent of the corpus and its chronological complexity, a lexical and semantic analysis will be subjected to, for example, such lexemes as historia (history) and społeczeństwo (society). The analysis of the usage of these items in the Polish parliamentary discourse has shown that they are high frequency words, and that their meanings are subject to “specific pressures of parliamentarism” and slightly differ (depending on a particular period in history) from the meanings traditionally assigned to them in Polish lexicography.
In this article, I engage in a discussion of the approaches of the normativists postulating the absence of a linguistic norm and assuming the identification of the norm with usus. I have made an attempt to prove the existence of the norm as a level of internal organisation of language, based on linguistic and mathematical-computational considerations. I accept the need for separate models of language: linguistic and mathematical, which serve different purposes and have different properties. I ponder the dual nature of language manifested by its finite infinity, assuming that only the usus is infinite. I postulate the adoption of a theory (formulated by K. Kłosińska) assuming the existence of an invariant norm together with ‘allonorms’. I also propose the introduction of the probabilistic Gaussian model into the codification procedures of the linguistic norm as a method objectifying the procedure and removing the (qualitative and quantitative) arbitrariness of codifiers.
The article discusses the preliminary results of research into the language corpus of the Polish parliamentary transcripts. Emphasis has been placed on a study of the emotional level of randomly selected transcripts. Two important lexemes (concept): niezawisłość and niepodległość have been studied by academics in terms of their use in transcripts. The frequency of these words has been estimated. Moreover, the semantic transformations of these words depending on the use of these lexemes in this discourse have been subjected to an academic study
That is, about phraseologisms with a "language" component that mean obtaining information (based on the Corpus of Parliamentary Discourse from 1918–2021) In the article, I analyzed 3 Polish phraseologisms – someone grabbed / captured / gained the language // caught / grabbed / got the language (ktoś złapał / schwytał / zdobył języka // złapać / schwytać / zdobyć języka); someone inquires / inquires for language // inquires / inquires for language (ktoś zasięga / zasięgnął języka // zasięgać / zasięgnąć języka); someone pulls / pulls someone’s language // pulls / pulls someone’s language (ktoś ciągnie / pociągnął za język kogoś // ciągnąć / pociągnąć kogoś za język) – functioning in the Polish parliamentary discourse. The material comes from the Corpus of parliamentary discourse (CPD) developed at the IPI PAN, containing nearly 700 million segments. I compared CPD data – in the semantic and frequency plan – with the general Polish language (based on corpuses: NKJP, Monco.pl and „Odkrywka”). It turned out that in the case of the analyzed phraseologies, as components of the secondary nomination system, the Polish parliamentary discourse does not perform a specific semantic and turnout ‘distortion’. The analyzed phraseologisms function in CPD just like in general Polish, which is a peculiar difference compared to the research on lexemes and lexical constructions in CPD.
In this article I present the results of corpus and lexicographic analyses of the bigram black sea. I conduct frequency, semantic, emotional and pragmalinguistic analyses of this proper name – Black Sea. I extracted these contexts from the corpora of Polish: Corpus of Parliamentary Discourse, NKJP and Monco.pl. As a result of my analysis, I obtained a linguistic picture of the Black Sea in the Polish communicative community. In parliament – in the texts of which this onim appears – the dominant negative emotion accompanying the basic theme, i.e. (current) politics, for the purpose of which, among other things, the mechanism of post-truth and post-memory are constructed using this name as elements of so-called historical politics. In general, the concept expressed by the bigram Black Sea is located on the periphery of the Polish linguistic worldview; does not constitute a prototype of “maritimeness”. The analyzed structure sends users of modern Polish to spatially, historically and mentally distant areas of Central Europe, to its southern part.
In this article, I discuss a linguometric method/procedure that I am developing myself, with which it will be possible to forecast upcoming changes in the extra-linguistic reality. Econometric analyses are a model for this procedure. Underlying the proposed linguometric method, I made a cognitive assumption related to the linguistic picture of the world (or more precisely here: textual worldview) of a some kind of communicative community (here: Polish communicative community) and conducted corpus-based frequency-lexical analyses with reference to three exemplary historical events: a) the global economic crisis of 2008–2009; b) the outbreak of World War II in 1939; c) the Russian aggression against Ukraine in 2022. In the corpus‑based linguistic data, I tracked the frequency-lexical symptoms of the coming of the mentioned events. It was possible to establish by means of statistical data (frequency and textual frequency of synonymic words from the thematic fields CRISIS and WAR) that language ‘foretells’ an imminent change in reality 2 to 4 years before it occurs (it is therefore possible to predict future events on the basis of linguistic data). It seems, therefore, that the proposed linguometric procedure can be complementary to econometric, political science, sociological, and many other analyses. I also think that the method developed can be implemented into a digital linguometric tool operating on language corpora, which – for the purposes of linguometrics – should be continuously developed. Such a linguometric tool could be developed in the information and linguistics team.
In this text, an analysis of the lexical material obtained from the recordings of Polish task-oriented dialogues is presented. Some findings regarding quasi- and non-lexical units are also mentioned. The dialogue task involved the reconstruction of a figure made of paper. It was carried out in two settings: Mutual visibility and limited visibility. The analyses of the vocabulary are focused on finding its specific features and the differences between the structures of the vocabularies of instruction givers and instruction followers in the two settings. Frequency lists as well as most frequent bigrams extracted from the material are discussed in terms of their relatedness to the settings, the roles of the speakers and some other factors.
The article presents the results of the analyses of the material collected by means of questionnaires, in which the informants are asked to complete a specific meaning of a real lexeme (excerpted from the lexicographical studies into modern Polish) with a linguistic form, which-in the opinion of the respondents-is supposed to be a carrier of a particular meaning. Our aim has been to describe new language signs for traditional meanings of linguistic units. Word-formative structures underwent observation; the analyses were also conducted on the lexical level by probing into the semantic connotations revealed in the answers of the informants. In the answers proposed by the respondents one can notice a marked divergence with regard to both form and semantics. On the level of word formation, the proposals of the respondents often go beyond the semantic boundary-defined by a derivative being an original form-of word formation category. Word-formative formal analysis revealed a multitude of elements by means of which these word formation variants were created (there exists a relationship: the more precise the meaning of the original form, the more word formation variants). Moreover, the lexical analysis demonstrated that the semantic divergence of variants was influenced by the fact that the respondents disposed only of the real meanings of the original forms. The respondents sometimes made an attempt (not very successful) at interpretation of the original definition, taking advantage of, for example, the phenomenon of connotation and association: when an evaluating lexeme appeared in a definition, in the process of categorizing variants there dominated an axiological factor over the semantic one. Additionally, it has been observed that in the case of an imprecise or syntactically complex definition or the one determining a poorly known designate, the phenomenon of structural suggestion is observed: a language user proposed a variant derived from one of the words included in definiendum. The completed observations allow scholars to formulate the following hypothesis: the traditional meanings, known from lexicographical studies, are either not understood or mistakenly interpreted, or, cannot be seen as a point of departure for the study of the semantic and formal structure of the Polish language. Thus, the so-called ordinary users of language may not think about the relationship between reality and its intellectual categorization and a linguistic sign being the culmination of a cognitive processes, and this, in turn, illustrates the standard of their knowledge-a common knowledge.
In the present paper, the experimental procedure, the details of sound and video recording set-up as well as the system for speech and gesture transciption and coding used in the Polish Cartoon Narration Corpus (PCNC) project are described. The audio-visual data come from a cartoon narration task performed by both children and adults. The recordings are transcribed orthographically and phonemically, and labelled for selected phenomena on a number of levels, including gesture, lexicon, prosody, and dialogue acts.
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