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Zdzisław Wąsik (born 1947) is a Polish linguist, semiotician and communicologist. Having departed from Germanic, comparative Indo-European, and general linguistics, he specializes recently in metascientific epistemology, mundane phenomenology, and philosophy of cosmology. At present he is employed as Professor at the WSB Merito University in Wrocław and acts as President of the Scientific Council of the Discipline “Linguistics” iin the Research Federation of WSB–DSW Merito Universities in Poland
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September 2020 - present
WSB University Merito in Wrocław
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- Professor (Full)
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- President of the Scientific Council of the Discipline Linguistics (category A) in the Research Federation of WSB–DSW Merito Universities, Gdańsk Laureate Fellow, Member of the Bureau, and Director of Regional Coordinators for Europe of the International Communicology Institute, Washington, DC; Member of the International Advisory Board of the Academy of Cultural Heritages, Helsinki/Athens. ORCID: 0000-0003-2556-8228
Education
February 1999 - December 2017
February 1999 - December 2017
October 1966 - February 1999
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Wąsik, Z. Semiotic cosmology as a transmedial
cartography of worldview, on pp. 456 - 484, in Suárez-Puerta B., Merkoulova I. (eds.). Reflections on Paths, Scenarios and Semiotic Methodology Routes. IASS-AIS, FELS, ASC, GAUGN and International Center for Semiotics and Intercultural Dialogue; 2021. 503 p.
The principal object of this study is constituted by two epistemologically distinct models of Ferdinand de Saussure’s depictions of the linguistic sign. The first model pertains to a bilateral conception of the sign as an inseparable unity of two sides that evoke each other in the mind of individuals during their speaking and understanding activiti...
Against the background of deliberations about the conception of worldhood as developed in existential semiotics on the basis of linguistic modality acts, this paper proposes merging mundane and transcendentalist phenomenology with epistemology as a theory of knowledge, in general, that alludes to pragmatic sources of human knowledge about the world...
This chapter presents an overview of the conceptions of semiotic universes of meaning opposed, as surrounding environments of animals, to livedthrough environments of humans. Its subject matter constitutes the epistemological deconstruction of the concept of worldhood put forward by philosophers dealing with subjective experience. Regarding its inv...
The subject matter of this paper constitutes a historical-evolutionary approach to language as an individual property of its speakers and learners. Language, here, is viewed from the perspective of its ‘becoming’ in ecologically determined speech communities. The notion of becoming is referred to as the continuous changeability of language through...
This paper is an attempt at evaluating the advancement of the conceptual and methodological framework of semiotics across its neighboring disciplines as launched and promoted by Thomas Albert Sebeok on a worldwide scale. Writing in a first-person account, the author describes, firstly, his own road to the semiotic study of linguistics, owing to the...
Abstract of "The current state of semiotics in Azerbaijan"
“Have you ever heard the term “Semiotics” before?”, “Have you ever read anything dealing with signs before?” and “Have you ever read anything on Semiotics?” are the survey questions due to which an overview of the current state of semiotics in Azerbaijan is displayed.
The survey results s...
Colaborações especiais: Dominique Maingueneau (Paris IV-Sorbonne), Jacques Fontanille (Université de Limoges), Diana Luz Pessoa de Barros (USP / Mackenzie), Per Aage Brandt (Case Western Reserve University), Marcia Tiburi (Université Paris 8), embaixador Rubens Ricupero (ex-Ministro e Diplomata), Sara Lagi (Universidade de Turim), Zdzisław Wasik (P...
At the outset, I discuss selected conceptions of world images put forward by philosophers pertaining to human experience and the social construction of reality. Herewith, I am trying to clarify distinctions between appearances and experiences of things in the world and the abilities of humans to construe worlds beyond words, along with their being-...
A report on the conference “Ecosemiotic Paradigm for Nature and Culture”
Natural and cultural layers of communicating selves in the discursive becoming of language
Departing from estimations of existential universes of animals (umwelt) and humans (Lebenswelt and Dasein), this paper observes a number of views on the subjective experience, or modelling systems of reality, developed in the philosophy of nature and culture. The first part examines how the semantic relationships of nonhuman and human organisms wit...
p>This article aims at a confrontation of two approaches to epistemology in order to answer the question posed in its title whether the theory of knowledge should focus on static or dynamic aspects of human cognition. In the first part, the author presents a metascientific understanding of epistemology defined in his own works as an ordered set of...
The aim of this paper is, in general, to put forward the idea of epistemological equivalence to be achieved in translational practice, and its focus of interest concentrates, in particular, around the question of how the translations of sign-related terms selected from the students" and editors" lectures Cours de linguistique gän4rale( CLG) of Ferd...
The subject matter of the following paper constitutes the inquiry into the essence of meaning realized in the behavior and products of cultural subjects as participants of intersubjective communication. Accordingly, several philosophical and linguistic approaches to the object-related concepts of sign and meaning will be juxtaposed with the subject...
Zdzisław Wąsik, born in Kłopotów near Lubin (Poland) on May 3, 1947, graduated from the Wrocław University with an M.A. in German (1971) and a Ph.D. (1976) in Indo-European. He got his D.Litt. in general linguistics at Poznań (1986). Subsequently, in 1997, he was named Professor Titular. Between 1984 and 1999 he acted as head of the General Linguis...
Zdzisław Wąsik was born in Kłopotów near Lubin (Poland) on May 3, 1947. He graduated from the Wrocław University with an M.A. (1971) in German and a Ph.D. (1976) in Indo-European, and got his D.Litt. in general linguistics at Poznań (1986). Subsequently, in 1997, he was named professor titular. Between 1984 and 1999 he acted as head of the General...
Zdzisław Wąsik, born in Kłopotów near Lubin (Poland) on May 3, 1947, graduated from the Wrocław University with an M.A. in German (1971) and a Ph.D. (1976) in Indo–European; he got his D.Litt. in General Linguistics at Poznań (1986). Subsequently, in 1997, he was named professor titular. Between 1984 and 1999, he acted as head of the General Lingui...
Bibliogr. na konci kapitol. - Angl., něm. souhrny na konci kapitol
A logical-philosophical approach to the meaning-carriers or meaning-processes is juxtaposed with the anthropological-biological concepts of subjective significance uniting both for the semiotics of culture and the semiotics of nature. It is assumed that certain objects, which are identifiable in the universe of man and in the world surrounding all...
Apart from the names of Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845–1929), Mikołaj Kruszewski (1851–1887), and, later, Jerzy Kuryłowicz (1895–1978), Polish linguists and Polish linguistics generally have been little known in the West. The first two were mentioned with approval by Saussure in an unpublished paper, and this reference was picked up by Roman Jakob...
This essay offers an overview of the contribution of Polish linguists to the development of general linguistics covering the period of the late 1860s - late 1960s. It analyzes, withinan epistemological perspective, the heritage of academic teachers of the period who developed their own proposals to the theory of language against the scientific lega...
Bibliogr. s. 156-162. - Angl. souhrn
Bibliogr. na konci kapitol. - Angl., hol. souhrny na konci kapitol
