The paper presents the dialogue with tradition in selected poems for children. Children’s poetry most frequently resorts to intertextuality in the form of affective continuation, thematic restitution and stylistic ...

The starting point of the article is the assumption that the interpretation of the postcolonial theory in post-1989 Poland is exceptional, very different from the one dominant in the West. The specificity of “the Polish ...

The paper focuses on tradition and those 20th century interpretations of tradition in which it is understood as an essential factor in modern culture and literature. The author’s standpoint is that the concept of ...

The article concerns first names given to the male residents of Miechów in the years 2001– 2010. Miechów’s public register of baptisms records 475 boys with, essentially, 106 different names. The names are presented and ...

In the article, the author discusses words borrowed from English, such as hello, sorry, wow and babe, existing in students’ spoken language. Their usage illustrates changes in modern culture, demonstrates characteristic ...

The paper concerns mutual relations between lexicalization processes and linguistic tradition. The author invokes Polish and foreign works and points to possible ways of understanding lexicalization by illustrating them ...

In the 21st century Polish language, many of the archaic words and expressions of yesteryear still function. In spite of their relative frequency (occurrences in familiar folk or pop songs), they often remain incomprehensible ...

The paper contains philological reflections on the cult of the dead in northeastern Borderlands. The cult has been a source of inspiration for interdisciplinary studies of many Polish scholars – the popularizers of Polish ...

The paper analyzes the language used by drivers on the Citizens’ Band radio (CB radio). The users of the radio communicate only in speech, their communication is highly pragmatic and based on partnership. The utterances ...