Marta Falkowska

University of Warsaw | UW · Institute of Polish Language

Artykuł dotyczy polaryzacji stanowisk w dyskursie o pandemii, odzwierciedlającej się w wykorzystaniu strategii nominacyjnych mających na celu dyskredytację ideowych przeciwników. Zgromadzony na potrzeby analizy materiał, zawierający użycia derywatu covidianin, pochodzi przede wszystkim z wypowiedzi internautów. Konteksty zostały wyekscerpowane za p...

This paper provides insights into the semantic relations between the concepts empatia (“empathy”) and poprawność polityczna (“political correctness”) in present-day Polish. The author analyzed internet comments pertaining to the expert opinion formulated in August 2020 by a member of the Council for the Polish Language concerning the usage of the w...

Artykuł przedstawia przegląd wybranych problemów badawczych związanych z analizą nazw allocentrycznych stanów emocjonalnych i postaw we współczesnej polszczyźnie, tj. m.in. rzeczowników empatia, współczucie, współodczuwanie, litość, miłosierdzie. Porównanie sposobów używania tych jednostek wskazuje, że zarówno zakres semantyczny rzeczownika empatia...

The paper provides a corpus-based semantic analysis of patients’ opinions on doctors published on the ZnanyLekarz.pl web portal. The analysis is aimed at depicting the medical professionals’ traits and behaviours that patients interpret as expressions of empathy. The fi ndings suggest that while patients value the doctor’s empathy, they perceive it...

This paper examines metaphors in perfume reviews in four languages, namely Polish, English, Russian, and French. Some typical features of the perfumery discourse, similar across the four languages, have been highlighted, such as clustering, extension, and mixing metaphors. The authors also discuss the most typical schemata used in the conceptualiza...

Celem artykułu jest wskazanie środków językowych, za pomocą których w wybranych opowiadaniach obozowych Tadeusza Borowskiego z tomu "Pożegnanie z Marią" (1947) konstruowany jest dystans emocjonalny, m.in. narratora-bohatera względem innych ludzi. W pracy wykorzystujemy instrumentarium badawcze językoznawstwa kognitywnego, w tym kognitywnie ukierunk...

Full text: https://journal.tertium.edu.pl/index.php/JaK/article/view/104/184 "My heart and thoughts are with you." Communicating Empathy in Discourse (a Case Study) The article is a part of a more extensive linguistic project exploring the concept of ‘empathy’ and its exponents in the present-day Polish (Falkowska 2012, 2017, 2018). The analysis...

This paper presents various types of metaphors within the emergent wine discourse in Polish. The analysis is corpus-based and it employs examples excerpted from Synamet – a semantically and morphosyntactically annotated corpus of Polish synesthetic metaphors. Polish wine discourse is juxtaposed against other thematic types of discourse included in...

All my sour-sweet days I will lament and love – a comparative analysis of metaphors with the basic taste adjectives in Polish and English This paper provides a comparative analysis of verbal synesthetic metaphors with the basic taste adjectives in Polish and English: słodki/sweet, gorzki/bitter, kwaśny/sour, słony/salty. Since taste seems to be an...

Falkowska, M. (2017). Sposoby konstruowania empatycznego punktu widzenia (na przykładzie wybranych tekstów prasowych o problemie uchodźców i imigrantów), Prace Filologiczne LXXI, 139-150.

This paper of fers the use of figurative language found in online blogs and used as source material for the research project Synamet, the aim of which is to create a semantically and grammatically annotated corpus of synaesthetic metaphors for Polish. A particular emphasis of the proposed article is laid upon the verbal synaes- thesia found in the...

Referential strategies in discourse and the category of empathy. As exemplified by selected Polish newspaper articles on the European migrant crisis. Abstract: The paper aims at demonstrating the referential strategies employed to identify refugees and immigrants in recent Polish media discourse. The author assumes critical discourse analysis per...

Although wine culture is quite a new phenomenon in Poland, Polish wine blogs on the Internet are nu- merous, and a specific wine language is rapidly emerging. The Polish lexical field of taste is rather poor compared to other perceptual fields. It is obvious that the limited lexical repertoire does not suffice to describe such a multidi- mensional...

Abstract: The paper focuses on empathy understood as a specific viewing arrangement, i.e. along the lines set by S. Kuno (1987:206): " Empathy is the speaker's identification, which may vary in degree, with a person/thing that participates in the event or state that he describes in a sentence. " The analysis aims at answering the question whether w...

Ze wstępu: „Niniejszy tom jest kolejną już publikacją, której zasadniczy trzon stanowią wyniki badań prowadzonych równolegle przez pracowników i doktorantów Wydziału Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego oraz pracowników i doktorantów Katedry Bohemistyki Uniwersytetu Karola w Pradze. Poprzednia pozycja z tej serii, zatytułowana Odkrywanie znaczeń...

The paper outlines the various contradictory interpretations of the grammatical status of the Polish word wokół ‘all around’ (as well as other words posing the same classification problem, e.g. blisko ‘near, close to’; dookoła ‘around’; obok ‘by’; nieopodal ‘nearby’ etc.) formulated by Polish linguists and lexicographers. Central to the whole discu...

My paper discusses the ways in which the word "empatia" «empathy» is used by the contemporary Polish language speakers. The analysis is based predominantly on data excerpted from the National Corpus of Polish. Polish language dictionaries tend to describe the noun "empatia" as a specialist term. It seems, however, that the analyzed lexeme has foun...

My dissertation is devoted to the analysis of the lexical field associated with the notion of ‘wina’ (‘fault’ / 'guilt'). The lexemes belonging to the field constitute a major part of ethical vocabulary. However, it seems that the notion of ‘wina’ has not been given proper attention in the Polish linguistics. The aim of my dissertation is to bridge...