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¿Los usuarios de lenguas diferentes entienden y dividen el tiempo cronológico del mismo modo? – el caso del español, francés y polaco

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Brzozowska-Zburzyńska B.

Studia Iberystyczne

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2012

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vol. 11

57-68

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We propose a comparative study on some Spanish, French and Polish, temporary expressions calling different time intervals, to check if the speakers of the three languages make the same divisions and if they perceive time in the same way. The initial hypothesis that we hold is that time is generally perceived in the three languages in a similar way, but if we compare the concrete expressions we can find differences in their function arising from cultural and sociolinguistic otherness between speakers of the three languages.

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The CSR Standards in Small Business: A Comparative Study Between British and Polish Firms

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Lewicka-Strzałecka A.

Prakseologia

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2013

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issue 154

273-293

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The aim of this article is to discern the crux of SME sector social responsibility in developing countries. An attempt is made to identify, empirically, the ethical standards subscribed to by small firms in Poland and to compare them with the standards of small firms in the UK. The methodology of empirical analysis of the ethical standards of Polish entrepreneurs running small businesses was modelled on Laura Spence’s research on the priorities, practices and ethics of small firms in the UK (Spence 2000). This analysis has revealed certain similarities and significant differences in the way CSR is perceived by Polish and British entrepreneurs. British entrepreneurs manifest a higher degree of awareness with regard to the issue of social responsibility and are more strongly motivated by their external environment to take up social responsibility issues than Polish ones.

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Comparison the Psychological Wellbeing of University Students from Hungary and Romania

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Barth A., Nagy I., Kiss J.

Practice and Theory in Systems of Education

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2015

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vol. 10

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issue 2

186-193

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The results obtained in our research of mental distress indicators and results of conflict management strategies are consistent with the results of international studies. Students participating in the study (N=237) reached the highest average results in the field of personal growth, while we measured the lowest value in the fields of autonomy and the dominance of the enviroment. Among the mental distress indicators the students gave the highest scores for the stress. The frequency examination showed the results of the participants to fall to 40.9% of moderate-severe and severe extreme range. While among the genders, women indicate much higher stress levels. In addition, the students preferred the avoiding conflict management strategy in preference to the other four strategies. While we compared the students from the two countries we found a significant difference between the survey field of autonomy and purpose in life. We also found a notable difference among the mental distress indicators. While the students of the University of Debrecen were moderate, the students of the universities of Oradea fell in the “slight” area (in the range of stress). For the usage of conflict management strategies we found no significant differences between the two countries' students. The students from both countries preferred the avoiding strategy. This study similiar to many national and international studies indicates the high level of stress among the students. One of the most important task of a higher education institution should be the protection of the students’ mental health which would lead to an improvement on well-being and that would cause the lowering of the stress level.

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Wydobyte z ciszy – dziecięce narracje o świecie. Polsko-ukraińskie studium porównawcze

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Nowak-Łojewska A., Siegień W.

Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny

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2018

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vol. 63(4(250))

245-262

PL

Brought out of silence is a category used by Smolińska-Theiss to present children’s narrations and dialogues about their everyday matters. They take the form of letters to God, to presidents, albums with children’s drawings, photos, children’s films, graffiti, posts and comments. Originally, they date back to Korczak’s studies. Our text is also an act of letting children speak and appreciating their comments and opinions. It is concerned with children’s understanding of the world. Defining the meaning of life by children is the key category here. We called it “a comparative study” due to the fact that we will present utterances by both Polish and Ukrainian children as the category “a meaning of life” may be interpreted differently in various cultural, political or social contexts. The research carried out both in Poland and abroad indicates that a child is a competent unit capable of making logical utterances with the content which shows deep understanding of the world. This text is based on the following theoretical studies: – thinking about a child originating in a postmodernist childhood paradigm as well as psychological constructivism; – the analysis of research material has been based on Judith Butler’s theory – Frames of War.

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Pragmatic functions of I in academic discourse: linguistic research articles

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Raušová V.

Linguistica Pragensia

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2018

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vol. 28

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issue 2

168-183

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This study presents comparative research focused on the frequency and usage of the 1st person singular pronoun I in linguistic research articles (RAs) written in English by native speakers of English and native speakers of Czech. Two specialized corpora, together comprising 80 RAs, were compiled for the purposes of this study. The study shows that in comparison to previous research, the use of I gradually increases in RAs of Czech authors but the device is still underused compared to RAs of native English speakers. The underuse is linked to longstanding traditions of Czech academic writing. Moreover, the pragmatic functions of propositions featuring I as an explicit authorial reference in the discourse (Stating opinions and claims, Discourse organisation and guidance, Research process recounting) were linked to the tenets of the Politeness theory, to show benefits and risks of exploiting implications that they carry.

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Transfer at the level of argument structure or morphology: a comparative study of English and Persian unaccusative and unergative verbs

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Dehghan F., Rezvani R.

Topics in Linguistics

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2016

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vol. 17

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issue 1

111-124

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Transitivity alternation refers to the causative/inchoative alternation of some unaccusative verbs. Different languages use different patterns to show transitivity alternation morphologically. While some languages like English use zero or no overt lexical marking, other languages (e.g. Spanish, Turkish, and Japanese) use overt morphological markers to show transitivity. This study aims to investigate the degree to which similarities and/or mismatches between English and Persian influence the use of unaccusative and unergative verbs by Persianspeaking learners of English. Based on different verb types in English and Persian, seven verb categories were identified as the basis for comparison. A forced-choice elicitation test including 48 items was developed based on these seven verb categories. A proficiency test was also used to divide participants (116 undergraduate students of English) into high and low proficiency groups. The results revealed findings more in line with transfer at the morphological rather than the argument structure level (Montrul, 2000). Alternating unaccusatives with similar equivalent structures for transitive/intransitive pairs in Persian and non-alternating unaccusatives with different structures for transitive/intransitive pairs in Persian seem to be the most difficult verb categories for learners. The effect of proficiency level was also significant on the recognition of correct structures.

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Comparative Leisure Physical Activity: A Comparison Between Polish and European Population

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Biernat E., Piątkowska M.

Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research

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2013

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vol. 59

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issue 1

33-41

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Introduction and objective: In Poland, there are only a few studies that refer to the whole society’s participation in sport and recreation and that are based an the international questionnaire thus allowing for comparative analysis with other European reports. The aim of the study was to determine the association between leisure physical activity and socio-demographic variables. Methods: A survey based on CAPI was carried out in Poland from October to November 2012. A random sample of Polish adults (N=1,633) was interviewed using the IPAQ-long form. The data were analyzed using standard statistical procedures. Results: More than 21% of Polish subjects did not undertake any physical activity in their leisure time. Of those who were physically active, over 70% engaged in vigorous physical activity; only one in four respondents performed moderate physical activity or walking. The average leisure physical activity of the Poles was 1,916.9 ± 2,621 MET-min/week. A comparison of the current results and European research findings demonstrated that the median physical activity for the Polish population (MET-min/week) was similar to the median values for Czech subjects and Norwegian males and nearly three times higher than Croats. Conclusions: Insufficient participation in the conscious process of caring for one’s health is a common occurrence among adults living in the EU. In order to encourage the Polish population’s participation in physical activities, it is necessary to raise their awareness of the need of well-balanced, regular exercise. Furthermore, this study suggests that caution is warranted before using the CAPI technique to provide the IPAQ-long form survey.

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Ostensywne vs. stylistyczne funkcje terminów koloru jako centralna dychotomia lingwistyki barwy

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KULPINA W. G.

Stylistyka

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2011

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vol. 20

339-348

PL

The article deals with the terms of colours as a very important component of language picture of the world. The paper focuses upon the specific features of colour terms on the basis of comparative study of chromatic lexemes.

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“The First Swallow”: Avian Metaphors in Nikita Khrushchev’s Political Discourse

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Carter E. V.

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne

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2021

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issue 21

75-95

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Birds are a rich source for metaphors in paremias that are known to be a significant rhetorical force in various modes of communication. This article deals with the repertoire of ornithological proverbial texts utilized in the Soviet leader’s public speeches and memoirs, as well as in their English translations. The metaphor human is bird, in which there are various grounds of comparison, is explored. The peculiarities of using avian metaphors in the context of the original and the ways of their translation into English are scrutinized as well. The analysis of the material shows that the main features, shared by the Target (human) and the Source (bird species), are grounded on physiological characteristics and behavioral traits, having a negative slant. The equivalent and literal translations are applied as the main methods of rendition. Of particular interest are the metaphorical “animalistic metamorphoses” found in translation.

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The Use of E-learning Resources by Academic Teachers – a Polish-Czech Comparative Study

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Chmura M., Malach J., Szafrańska A., Ogrodzka-Mazur E.

The New Educational Review

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2017

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vol. 50

169-185

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The article is a result of the collaboration between Polish and Czech scientists who explore the issues of applying resources from the e-learning environment by academic teachers. The presented study was conducted in 2015–2016, within the project IRNet – International research network for study and development of new tools and methods for advanced pedagogical science in the field of ICT instruments, e-learning and intercultural competences. The research was aimed at learning academic teachers’ opinions on their own skills and possibilities of using various resources from the e-learning environment, as well as the ways in which they apply information and communication technologies in the educational process.

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Identity Behaviours of Australian and European Communities of Schools with Polish as the Teaching Language – a Comparative Study

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Ogrodzka-Mazur E.

The New Educational Review

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2018

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vol. 54

29-40

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The study comprises the presentation of an authorial approach to cultural identity, viewed from the perspective of the communities (consisting of children, parents and teachers) of schools with Polish as the teaching language in Australia and some selected European countries (Austria, France, the Czech Republic). In reference to the culturalistic model of identity, the characteristics of the most frequent identity behaviours of these communities were provided in the ethnic, national, integrative and mixed dimension. The author also indicates the contemporary contexts of identity shaping, which are determined by migration processes and multiculturalism. By formulating the most important conclusions resulting from the research, the need is indicated for implementing intercultural education in schools with Polish as the teaching language. Among other things, this will enhance the shaping of a multidimensional feeling of identity.

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Contemporary Polish and Ukrainian Academic Youth: A Portrait Without Ornaments. A comparative Analysis

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Ogrodzka-Mazur E., Saukh P.

The New Educational Review

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2020

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vol. 62

11-23

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In the philosophical-pedagogical analysis of the undertaken issues, some theoretical and methodological conceptualizations have been applied that refer to Paweł Boski’s theory of the cultural identity based on values and practices in bi-or multicultural socialization and Harold J. Noah’s model of the comparison of academic education. The assumption was also made that the research into the quality of life of Polish and Ukrainian university students enables one to learn the way(s) in which students understand themselves, the others and the world - the way(s) anchored in their own experience and culture. The undertaken studies also address the important problem of forming students’ identity in the stage of the so called emerging adulthood. It occurs in the countries where a knowledge-based economy dominates and where the intensive changes both decrease the young’s motivation to engage in adult roles and make the young postpone them.

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The personal life situation versus identity behaviours manifested by university students from cultural borderlands – a socio-pedagogical comparative study

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Ogrodzka-Mazur E.

Edukacja Międzykulturowa

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2022

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vol. 19

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issue 4

51-66

EN

In the pedagogical analysis undertaken in this study, some theoretical and methodological conceptualizations were applied, referring to the model of youth’s quality of life, developed on the basis of qualitative material collected in the course of international comparative studies – Tadeusz Lewowicki’s Theory of Identity Behaviors and Harold J. Noah’s model of comparing the quality of academic education. The basis for outlining the relationship between students’ life satisfaction and their sense of identity in the local, regional, national, European and supra-European dimension was the comparative research conducted in 2019–2021 in the Polish-Czech-Slovak borderland. The analysis and interpretation of the collected empirical material show that – although the neighbouring countries have undergone political changes, they belong to the European Union, and they collaborate in many areas – the living standards, but above all the influences in the educational sphere, the models and social values, as well as in lifestyles, are significantly different.

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Comparative Discourse Analysis of Moral Dilemmas of Students Attending Hungarian Schools of Three Models

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Mátyás T.

The New Educational Review

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2023

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vol. 71

216-226

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The culture of inquiry in moral thought had already introduced the method of eliciting judgement about images and stories through open-ended questions in the first third of the 20th century. In our research, we investigated the moral reasoning of students. We sought to answer how pupils in public, Catholic, and Waldorf schools judge moral dilemmas in fictional stories. Students’ (N=1144) responses to single-choice selective closed-ended (yes or no?) and open-ended (why?) questions about the reason for their choice were used to judge the decisions of the characters in three realistic, believable, age-appropriate stories. In the first story, taking unlawful advantage was accepted most by public school students and least by Catholic school students. In the second story, the actors’ solution method was rejected mainly by Waldorf students, with social justification. In the third story, there was no significant difference between the perceptions of the school models’ pupils, with a similar pattern of rejection. The results are only valid for Hungary.

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A comparative study of deaf children’s family resilience

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Shenglin L., Potměšíl M.

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Psychologica

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2012

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vol. 5

28-43

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This study compares families’ adaptation to childhood deafness in China and the Czech Republic. A sample of 160 families with deaf children were studied; 107 from China, 53 from the Czech Republic. The results showed that (1) overall, both family groups demonstrated resilience when facing the risk of childhood deafness by accepting the children’s deafness, functioning normally, and expecting a good future for their children; (2) Chinese families and Czech families did not demonstrate significant differences in the overall outcome of positive adaptation but displayed apparent differences in adaptiv patterns; (3) Chinese families were impacted more severely than Czech families by childhood deafness due to the lack of adequate social support, but cohesive family relationships and more positive changes in family belief such as optimism, altruism and tolerance toward differences might mediate the adverse impact caused by children’s deafness.

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Tekstowy wszechświat Leśmiana

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Winiecka E.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka

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2016

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issue 27

309-322

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The article discusses Żaneta Nalewajk’s book Leśmian międzynarodowy. It presents the Leśmian’s work read in the context of the work of Poe, Ukrainian folklore, Ruthenian perennials as well as French and Russian symbolism. The author takes note of the numerous qualities of the dissertation. She is pointing at several advantages of this work; its analytical reliability and the methodological consequence. The author shows also on the important position of the publication in the research on the poetry of Bolesław Leśmian. She notices one essential lack which is an omission of important continuations of Leśmian’s poetics in Polish modern poetry.

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Przekład wobec oryginału. Różne czasy, różne style

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SŁAWKOWA E.

Stylistyka

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2007

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vol. 16

221-234

PL

Postulating the necessity of introducing translatological reflection into modem stylisti- cs, the article - bearing upon the work of Polish translators of Charles Baudelaire’s poems - demonstrates a diversity of stylistics strategies in particular translations. The texts cho- sen for the study Correspondences, De Profundis Clamavi, and Les Plaintes d’un Icare have been rendered into Polish by both older (Stanisław Korab-Brzozowski, Miriam, and Antoni Lange), and modem (Tadeusz Bocheński, Maria Leśniewska, Andrzej Nowak) translators. A comparative study of the French originals and their Polish equivalents car- ried out with the help of cognitive grammar analysis allows us to conclude that neither the very time nor the style of translation determine its value in the target language culture. This awareness becomes important particularly in the light of a discussion conceming ca- nons of French and European literatures.

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A Comparative Study on the Conformity of Goods under the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and Ukrainian Sales Law

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Savanets L., Stakhyra H.

Krytyka Prawa. Niezależne studia nad prawem

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2022

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vol. 13

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issue 2

143-162

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The conformity of goods is a central concept underpinning the CISG and is based, broadly speaking, on breach of contract. However, questions arise whether the concept of conformity under the CISG has found its place in Ukrainian sales law, especially due to the lack of comparative research on this topic. This article, therefore, seeks to answer key questions and close gaps in legal research. In particular, the article highlights the differences between the CISG and the Ukrainian sales law and indicates where the latter requires improvements.

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The Social and Cultural Tendencies in the Environment of Contemporary Youth. A Polish-Ukrainian Comparative Study of the Structure of Axiological Reality

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Ogrodzka-Mazur E., Saukh P.

The New Educational Review

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2019

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vol. 57

63-74

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The theoretical and methodological framework of the undertaken issue is indicated by basic notional categories - culture, value and valuing orientations. While analyzing the philosophical and educational context, assumptions of social and cultural anthropology were applied (with a special focus on its anthropocentric-cultural current), (phenomenologically orientated) axiology and cognitive psychology (with the use of its cognitive-developmental theories). Assumption was also made concerning the exploration of youth’s image of the axiological world and the valuing orientations manifested by them, that make it possible to learn the way(s) rooted in culture and experience, in which learners understand themselves, Others and the world.

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European Union Terminology Unification - Directions for the Contrastive Study of Two Slavic and Two Non-Slavic Languages (Bulgarian, Polish, Modern Greek and English)

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Genew-Puhalewa I.

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2011

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vol. 9

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issue 1

69-79

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This study attempts to characterize terminology unification in the European Union legislation, regarding both content and form. It analyzes terms related to the thematic field of environmental law in four official EU languages: two Slavic (Bulgarian and Polish) and two non-Slavic (Modern Greek and English). Different types of relations between the languages under comparison suggest possible directions for further comparative study. The comparison aims to identify differences and similarities in the componential structure, formal-grammatical structure, word formation structure, form variantivity, origin and formal status. The study may also testify to the presence of linguistic convergence processes in the multilingual European Union.

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¿Los usuarios de lenguas diferentes entienden y dividen el tiempo cronológico del mismo modo? – el caso del español, francés y polaco

The CSR Standards in Small Business: A Comparative Study Between British and Polish Firms

Comparison the Psychological Wellbeing of University Students from Hungary and Romania

Wydobyte z ciszy – dziecięce narracje o świecie. Polsko-ukraińskie studium porównawcze

Pragmatic functions of I in academic discourse: linguistic research articles

Transfer at the level of argument structure or morphology: a comparative study of English and Persian unaccusative and unergative verbs

Comparative Leisure Physical Activity: A Comparison Between Polish and European Population

Ostensywne vs. stylistyczne funkcje terminów koloru jako centralna dychotomia lingwistyki barwy

“The First Swallow”: Avian Metaphors in Nikita Khrushchev’s Political Discourse

The Use of E-learning Resources by Academic Teachers – a Polish-Czech Comparative Study

Identity Behaviours of Australian and European Communities of Schools with Polish as the Teaching Language – a Comparative Study

Contemporary Polish and Ukrainian Academic Youth: A Portrait Without Ornaments. A comparative Analysis

The personal life situation versus identity behaviours manifested by university students from cultural borderlands – a socio-pedagogical comparative study

Comparative Discourse Analysis of Moral Dilemmas of Students Attending Hungarian Schools of Three Models

A comparative study of deaf children’s family resilience

Tekstowy wszechświat Leśmiana

Przekład wobec oryginału. Różne czasy, różne style

A Comparative Study on the Conformity of Goods under the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and Ukrainian Sales Law

The Social and Cultural Tendencies in the Environment of Contemporary Youth. A Polish-Ukrainian Comparative Study of the Structure of Axiological Reality

European Union Terminology Unification - Directions for the Contrastive Study of Two Slavic and Two Non-Slavic Languages (Bulgarian, Polish, Modern Greek and English)