“Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław” is a scientific journal that has been present in the scientific world at the Department of German Studies at the University of Wrocław in Poland since 2007. 13 years of editorial activity is documented in the form of 20 volumes of the journal. The journal is an organ that offers researchers from all over the world a scientific discussion platform. So far, 573 scientific articles have been published in 20 volumes of the journal, which are devoted to various questions of linguistics and illustrate the wide variety of research in linguistics. 194 texts come from the researchers from abroad. The authors of the contributions come from 20 countries around the world and 3 continents. The circle of authors is constantly expanding. The editorial team also strives to introduce the highest standards in editorial work. The article provides an overview of the achievements of the editorial team of “Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław” and their authors to date. Mechanisms for quality assurance and strategies for increasing the visibility and recognition of the journal in the scientific world deserve special attention, which can be seen in the fact that “Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław” has become an important publication medium for Germanistic linguists.
Today‘s world, dominated by digital media, also exerts a significant influence on interpersonal communication. Indeed, the digitized world offers one more possibilities than the analog world. These encourage the emergence of new formats and new types of texts in which the technical achievements find their application. Whether the formats occurring in the digitalized media can be regarded as new text types or only as a further development stage of the already known text types is to be examined in the contribution. On the basis of the publication by Anna Hanus and Dorota Kaczmarek: “Sekretne życie gatunków. Komunikacja w przestrzeni medialnej – perspektywa germanistyczna”, published by ATUT in 2022, the following types of texts are discussed: online reviews of literary works, blogs, video tutorials, cooking portals and Wikipedia. The analysis carried out by the authors of the work is contrastive. The investigation concerns the question of the ontological status of the mentioned forms, which is relevant for text linguistics. On the base of the extensive corpora, the characteristic features of the mentioned formats are investigated and comparatively compiled. The analysis has model and exemplary character in every respect, and the methodology employed by the authors can be applied to other text types and corpora. Therefore, the publication is suitable for analyses in the field of textlinguistics, pragmalinguistics and media linguistics.
It goes without saying that the current life is reflected in the lexicographical works and that they therefore have a documentary character of the times in which they were created. This concerns the content, v. a. definitions and examples that come together to form a picture of specific epochs. A special component of this picture are also lemmas that are derived from country names, since information about the respective people can be found in such lemma entries. How extensive are such dictionary articles and what information they contain are the goals of the analysis of adjectives derived from two country names: deutsch/niemiecki and polish/polski in biscopal dictionaries for the German and Polish language pair. Both meanings and examples in the dictionary entries are subject to analysis. The aim is to uncover similarities and differences and to answer the question of whether the adjectives derived from the country names contain information about the respective people in their lexicographical description. The contribution is also an attempt to create templates for the creation of the dictionary entries of the analyzed origin adjectives. The analysis shows that the lemma articles are not particularly developed around the named adjectives of origin and only contain basic information. On the basis of the analysis, therefore, it is argued that such lemma articles should be further developed by, inter alia, adding more information which would better characterize the national character. The analysis can thus make a contribution to the dictionary production – design of the dictionary articles.
Phraseodidactics as such seems to be getting more and more into the interest of foreign language learners and teachers. Solutions for the practical implementation of the theory are sought. These are also the expectations of German learners in Poland. The textbook “Phraseologie des Deutschen im Abriss für polnische Deutschlernende” by Elżbieta Dziurewicz and Joanna Woźniak, in which the phraseological concept for Poles learning German is developed, meets these expectations. It is a clever combination of theory and practice, which is intended for German learners at level B2. The aim is to critically evaluate the concept proposed by the authors in relation to the expectations and needs of the learners. The basis for comparison is provided by phraseological didactic textbooks that were developed for German learners in other languages. On the one hand, the analysis points to the deficiencies in the area of German-Polish phraseological didactics and, on the other hand, it focuses on the advantages that the work offers, which makes it a stimulus for both phraseological didactics and German learners. The rich offer of various exercises and forms of work as well as the complex presentation of the theory are the advantages of the publication that will attract a wide readership. The results of the analysis make a valuable contribution to the design of GFL lessons in Poland.
The occurrence and use of phraseologisms in technical languages is often the subject of scientific research. One analyzes phraseologisms whose use is typical for the respective language or diagnoses their use in technical texts. This also applies to the use of the so-called legal phraseologisms in legal technical language and their occurrence in legal technical texts. In phraseology research, the focus has so far been on the terminological aspects and the delimitation of legal phraseologisms from the other phraseological units. In Małgorzata Płomińska’s monograph “Juristische Fachphraseologie – zwischen Konvention und Routine”, published in 2019 by Peter Lang Verlag, one finds an exemplary connection between theory and practice. The author analyzes the occurrence and functions of legal phraseologisms in the German and Polish law books and creates a very successful analysis model. The research results achieved by Płomińska are the subject of the contribution. At the same time, the current state of research on legal linguistic specialist phraseology is discussed. The characteristics of the analysis results also make it possible to display certain desiderata in this research area. a lack of complex research into legal phraseology for both German and Polish, as well as of a comparative character.
In the article, the phenomenon of semantically double compound in German is addressed. They are the focus of Georg Schuppener‘s monograph, published in 2019. The work is the first systematic description of this phenomenon and, in theory, offers a compact compendium on the phenomenon it deals with. The theoretical considerations are supported by numerous examples.
Politeness is a phenomenon that has recently been linguistically studied. These are linguistic forms and formulas that can be used in certain communication situations. The so-called pragmatic component plays an important role here. This is particularly evident in the case of interspecific confrontation. This can be helped by bilingual lexicographical works, which can be of great help to all a foreign language learner. The article discusses the advantages of the recently published lexicographical works of Małgorzata Marcjanik, Silvia Bonacchi, and Agnieszka Frączek: Polsko-niemiecki słownik etykiety językowej.
The aim of a refusal letter as an answer to a job application is to communicate negative information to the person who is trying to obtain a job. For the reason of the necessity to save face as well as an inconvenience of the situation, authors of refusal letters apply various strategies aiming at mitigation of the formulated refusal. The objective of the article is to present structural elements of refusal letters containing complimenting phrases, as well as an analysis of language means used in such phrases.
The article provides an overview of scientific activities at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Wrocław, which are organized as part of the “Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław”. These are conferences and publications. The first conference (2006), which was conceived as a platform for scientific exchange, initiated a cycle of linguistic activities, the result of which are cyclical conferences and publications. In the article, 13 years of this activity are discussed and forecasts for future development are made.
The situation in the job market and specific expectations of job applicants lie at the heart of a peculiar “career” that has recently been experienced in refusal letters. Additional elements influencing their form and content are German law regulations. Aperitif-Briefe, Eisschreiben, and refusal letters proper are the three main variants of this text genre which has undergone noticeable evolution in the investigated period of 2001–2012. The aim of this article is to indicate the development stages of this text genre, paying special attention to the aids offered to refusal letter authors by developing technology, especially by media.
The end of taboo? – Linguistic and functional view on the Arsch / dupa lexeme in German and Polish phraseology The analysis center includes idiomatic expressions in German and Polish with the Arsch / dupa component. The aim of the analysis is to indicate the catalog of functions that are expressed with this type of idioms and to answer the question whether the analyzed component of idiomatic expressions still exhibits features of vulgarism and is covered with language taboo. Due to the richness of the material and the multiplicity of functions of the lexeme in question which can be pointed out, one can formulate a thesis about a progressive process of taboo removal.
„Space speaks“ – Research Basics within Linguistic Landscape on Selected German and Polish Examples The linguistic landscape in which we live is shaped by various kinds of texts. Such determined frames of a given space have an invariable influence on the kind and type of communication, and the space itself influences the functions of texts that are in it. The aim of the article is to indicate the assumptions and research possibilities within the Linguistic Landscape. They will be discussed on German and Polish examples of real space co-formed by texts in both cultures.
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In dem Beitrag wird auf die Grundlagen der sich seit einiger Zeit etablierten linguistischen Disziplin – Raumlinguistik eingegangen. Es werden mögliche Vorgehensweisen bei der sprachlichen Raumbetrachtung und Betextung des Raumes diskutiert. Die theoretischen Erwägungen werden mit einigen Beispielen aus dem deutschen und polnischen Sprachraum illustriert.
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