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Urszula Topczewska currently works at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw. Urszula does research in Linguistic Semantics and Pragmatics. Their current project is 'Perlocutions'.
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The communicative-pragmatic turn brought about a resurgence in the researchers' interest in German modal particles. Ever since then, linguists have put most emphasis on the pragmatic functions of this word class, whereas their grammatic features have not attracted much attention of scholars. By examining the research on modal particles from antiqui...
Znaczenia językowe funkcjonują w konkretnej rzeczywistości społecznej. Wiedza o tej rzeczywistości jest – zdaniem Fritza Hermannsa – integralną częścią wiedzy semantycznej, która obejmuje trzy aspekty ludzkich działań językowych: kognicje, emocje i intencje, rozumiane jako kolektywne dyspozycje kognitywne, afektywne i wolitywne. Dyskurs z tej persp...
Kiedy milczenie jest aktem mowy? Illokucje na pograniczu działań językowych Celem artykułu jest ukazanie milczenia jako niewerbalnego pośredniego aktu mowy. Wielorakie funkcje semiotyczne milczenia pozwalają traktować je jako samodzielny segment w ciągu wypowiedzeń, któremu odpowiada działanie odrębne od poprzedzającego i/lub następującego po nim d...
The eleven texts included in the Ideological and Political Conditions of Language Communication address communication in its ideological and political aspect. The relations between politics and ideology, which arouse strong emotions in public discourse, are not the keynote of the presented publication. The authors choose one of the two notions and...
Aggressive speech acts are constituted by an interrelation between the interacting partners who, through their utterances in certain contextual conditions, express (illocution) or stimulate (perlocution) aggression. In this sense, aggression is a social phenomenon, and the present essay tries to pragmalinguistically grasp the socially conditioned...
The essay examines the social functions of media discourse utterances connected with juvenile delinquency. The term "social function" is understood as the function related to identity construction in language interaction (the construction of the images of self and other as well as group images). This function can be fulfilled by means of either int...
The underlying assumption behind the linguistic research on text processing is that the same meaning can be conveyed via different stylistic and textual conventions, with different level of comprehensibility. Contrary to the psychological models of readability, which were based on an empirical examination of the formal features of a text, linguists...
