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Emotive-Evaluative Acts in the Online Discourse - on the Example of Comments on Allegro

Dobosiewicz, Joanna · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

This paper investigates comments left by users of Allegro - an on-line auction website. With the use of pragmalinguistics, author treats the e-commerce site comments as emotive-evaluative act directed towards both speci…

Emotions in Public Discourse

Laskowska, Elżbieta · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

In political discourse, the recipient is collective and intentional. Being a part of public discourse, political discourse abounds in speech acts that have emotive-evaluative function. In the prezent paper, the Author d…

"Who is Crazy in this Country?" Verbalizing Emotions in Political Discourse

Palašić, Nikolina · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

In the center of our interest is the use of emotion-marked linguistic resources in the public discourse, and more specifically in the Croatian political public sphere. As politics is traditionally considered a place fro…

Expressive Illocutionary Acts in a Political Talk Show

Rašová, Dominika · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

This article focuses on the pragmatic dimension of language phenomena with respect to the expressive and emotional aspect of Slovak and German. The aim is to monitor the use of language and the relationship to language…

The Therapeutic Function of Metaphor: the Case of Emotions in the Croatian Public Discourse

Stanojević, Mateusz-Milan, Čičin-Šain, Višnja · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

In this paper we (re-)examine the role of deliberate metaphors in the public discourse. Based on an analysis of metaphorical comments to the articles reporting on a dispute between the Croatian Prime Minister and Minist…

Exponents of Emotions in Father's Blogs [a Contribution to Linguistic and Cultural Research on the Modern Image of a Man]

Suska, Dorota · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The aim of the presented analysis is to show the exponents of excitement in the online genre - father's blogs. Men's parenting blogs reflect changes in the field of parenting, where father begins to appear - as an activ…

Means of Expressing and Implying Emotions and Impoliteness in Croatian and Montenegrin Public Discourse

Šarić, Ljiljana, Radanović Felberg, Tatjana · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

This article addresses means of expressing and implying emotions (Langlotz, Locher 2012) in realizations of impoliteness in written discourse thematizing language and identity in Croatian and Montenegrin media in 2010 a…

Gender Variation in the Emotional Construal of Russian Journalistic Non-fiction

Šipka, Danko · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The author analyzes gender differences in the Russian journalistic discourse using the example of the lexical field related to the concept of грусть 'sorrowʼ. The more frequent use of these words is indicative of a high…

Morphological Indicators of Positive Emotions in "Przewodnik Katolicki" in the Years 1895-2005

Wiatrowski, Przemysław · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The object of the linguistic analysis are articles published in the years 1895-2005 in „Przewodnik Katolicki" - one of the oldest Polish periodicals and the oldest Catholic weekly in Poland, chich to a large extent has…

On Linguistic Emotivity with Bronisław Malinowski in the Background

Barański, Janusz · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

One of the ways of understanding linguistic emotivity is taking into account an anthropological approach. The first anthropologist who recognized the emotive aspect of language was the founding father of social anthropo…

Searching the Language of Hurted Creatures. About Joanna Bator's Novel Darkness, Almost Night

Czyżak, Agnieszka · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The aim of the article is to present an interpretation of one of literary visions of traumatic experiences. Suffering a wrongs in childhood is, by the author, the main cause of many problems In grown people's life. Thos…

Nostalgia as [Un]Serious Emotion: Games and Toys in Everyday Narrative Practices about Childhood

Dimkov, Marijana, Marković, Jelena · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

This paper analyzes the contemporary context of nostalgia, recollection and narration of childhood events on the basis of field notes collected by means of different methodological techniques. The narrative quest for th…

Destined to Melancholy. Emotions in Contemporary Women's Croatian Poetry

Gawałkiewicz, Zuzanna · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The aim of the study is to answer the question what the postmodern melancholy is and how it manifests itself through emotions in contemporary works of selected Croatian poets: Božica Zoko, Marijana Radmilović and Tea Gi…

Beyond Literal Understanding of Emotions

Jasielska, Aleksandra · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The meaning of emotions and the meaning of words- emotions' labels are described in studiem about emotions. Although there are some differences between these two domains, most studies about understanding emotions use le…

Representation of Love in Andrić's Novel The Bridge on the Drina

Katušić, Bernarda · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

Starting with Erich Fromm's thesis on love from his seminal work The Art of Loving (1956), the paper tries to show the way in which Fromm's psycho-biological concept of love is represented differently in different histo…

Semantic Development of the Noun "Humor" in Polish Language. Lexicographic Overview

Korpysz, Tomasz · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

In the past fifteen years, the Polish linguistics faced a significant increase of interest in research into positive emotions: their naming, the ways in which they are expressed and manifested in the texts. The largest…

On Gender-Sensitive Language

Kuna, Branko, Nujić, Damira · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

This paper focuses on changes in Croatian language that either have happened or are possible to happen in order that male dominance in language and gender inequality are reduced. The research concentrates on the use of…

Emotion as a Message

Łosiak, Władysław · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

Emotion may be treated as a special sort of message considering that communicative function is one of the basic functions of emotion. Moreover emotion serves as a message in two ways. In one way facial expression of emo…

Thematic and Agentive Construction of strah [Fear] in Croatian Derived from the Conceptualization of Spatial Relations Coded by Preposition u [in]

Perak, Benedikt · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

This article presents an emergent model of the conceptualization of strah (Fear) in Croatian with focus on the constructions derived from the container image schema coded by preposition u (in). the semantic and syntacti…

Love, Sexuality and Punishment in Macedonian Traditional Culture

Петреска, Весна · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The love, sexuality and the punishment in the Macedonian traditional culture is considered on the basic of the ethnological-anthropological analyze. The analyze is based on the oral stories, ritual practices and oral po…

Communicating and Expressing Emotions in Polish Medieval Texts on the Basis of The Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish

Sieradzka-Baziur, Bożena · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The linguistic ways of presenting emotions such as communicating and expressing emotions in Polish medieval texts have not been the subject of linguistic analysis. The majority of the oldest linguistic relics are mostly…

Translator, Emotions and Translation

Tokarz, Bożena · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

A translator, recreating the original, creatively stimulates her/his intellect, knowledge, senses and emotions. At the same time, s/he remains in agreement with the emotions presented in the original by assuming with re…

Emotiveness of Contemporary Bulgarian Religious Texts. An Example of Zographsky Edition of Bulgarian Hagiography

Walczak-Mikołajczakowa, Mariola · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

Usage of the word 'contemporary' in the title of this article persuades to think of issues which were undertaken by editors of this volume: is emotiveness belong only to texts published by contemporary media, or do we h…

The Verbal Expression of Anger in Croatian Comedy Films

Vlašić Duić, Jelena · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The purpose of this paper was to examine the verbal expression of anger in Croatian comedy films and also to find textual and prosodic elements that provoke the viewer's exhilaration. On the textual level analysis inclu…

Deconstruction of Emotional Discourse in the Novel Gullo Gullo by Miodrag Bulatović

Đurišić-Bečanović, Tatjana · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The paper deals with a detailed analysis of the characteristics of emotional discourse, organized in a literary text, specifically in the novel Gullo Gullo by Miodrag Bulatovic. Since expressing of emotions can be verba…