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  • Approaches Towards Shame in Contemporary Polish Literature

  • from ON-LINE/ OFF-LINE
  • Edited by Jarosława Płuciennika, Peter Gärdenfors
  • Book:
    On-line/Off-line
    Published by:
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    Published online:
    12 January 2018
    Print publication:
    01 January 2016, pp 75-88

  • Summary

    Abstract

    This article focuses on literary approaches to the emotion of shame. My thesis is that litera-ture can be perceived as a tool for overcoming feelings of shame, as it is capable of express-ing even the most intimate human experiences in aesthetic terms, outside stereotypical moral judgments. From this perspective I discuss exhibitionistic tendencies on the author's part and complementary voyeuristic impulses on the part of the reader. In this context I then consider the phenomenon of literary provocation and its function to then analyse two examples from Polish contemporary literature: Polka by M.Gretkowska – a literary journal of pregnancy – and Lovetown by M. Witkowski. Both, in my opinion, offer interest-ing aesthetic views on intimate but relevant aspects of everyday life.

    Key words: aesthetics, shame, contemporary Polish literature, experience

    In her famous essay Reading for Life Martha Nussbaum proposes a theory stating that reading is an ethical act which holds significant implications for the reader's entire life and functioning within the community.(Nuss-baum 1990) The essay title might therefore be understood as a summons to apply the knowledge and experience gained from reading in order to live a better, fuller, more responsible and conscious life. Another interpre-tation is that Nussbaum places reading on the same level as processes and activities indispensable to maintaining life in its basic, biological form; to paraphrase – that there is no life without reading. Or, at least, no life wor-thy of the name. Undoubtedly, despite distressing reports on the decrease of readership, there still are people for whom this high-minded statement rings true and who indeed cannot imagine a day without reading. For them, reading is a way of life. This phenomenon, or more broadly, readers’ reception of literary works, has been a subject of interest to literary schol-ars – professional readers, who endeavour to explain the phenomenon of reading from a scientific perspective, but still not without certain personal sentiments.

    The scope and range of readership studies illustrates the scale and im-portance of the phenomenon of reading. Writing, as much as it remains a complementary counterpart of reading, seems to be a less egalitarian pur-suit – or, at least, this has been the case until recently.

Media Management
  • A Comparative Analysis of European and American Systems
  • Boguslaw Nierenberg
  • Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    10 January 2018
    Print publication:
    01 January 2016
  • The thesis that the media have become the basic determinant of the modern world is so apparent that we think it is even trivial. However, the banality of this phenomenon does not mean it is commonly known. It does not mean, either, that we are familiar with the rules that are behind it. It seems that things look similar with regard to media management.
    The book entitled Media Management: A Comparative Analysis of European and American Systems is the result of research conducted by the author for many years. Its principal objective is to compare the academic achievements in the scope of media management in American and European media management systems. The two theses by Peter Drucker have become its basis: the first that says "information shall be the basic resource in the 21st c." and the other one that says "the more the information is widespread, the more valuable it is". While the first thesis is fairly widely accepted, the other one is not in line with traditional economic knowledge. This is one of the most essential characteristics of the media industry, for which information is the basic resource, thus the properties of this resource play a decisive role in such importance of media organizations.
    In order to describe the issues related to media management, the authors have adopted systematic methodology, according to which the phenomena under study should be understood as an integrated whole and it contains parts which are directly or indirectly related to each other. Three questions, which are of the key importance for the systemic understanding of the phenomena under study and which were posed by Gerald Weinberg, have been applied in order to describe the phenomena: 1. Why do I see what I see? 2. Why are things as they are? 3. Why do things change? This method of perceiving reality allows one to render the essence of the issue under study.
    The analysis presented in the book has proved that management is not secret knowledge. It can be learnt. The same applies to media management. Managers who desire to direct media organizations should possess such knowledge and competencies.

  • III - Functions of the Expression проклет да бидам (I'll be damned) in the novel The Great Water by Zhivko Chingo

  • from B - LANGUAGE IN THE DISCOURSE: MACEDONIAN – POLISH
  • Maciej Kawka, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
  • Book:
    Macedonian Discourses
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    12 January 2018
    Print publication:
    01 January 2016, pp 177-197

  • Summary

    “Foreign Speach” in the Novel The Great Water by Zhivko Chingo

    The problem with “foreign speech” in this text structure, and especially in a narrative text, primarily relates to the use of foreign words from foreign languages. But not only that. “Foreign speech” is also “imported speech” where the replica content is preserved and is grammatically integrated in the narrator's text. “Foreign speech” may be “paraphrased speech” in which none of the elements of the speech act itself are preserved except for their content. However, those speeches can be mixed and representatives of foreign speech may equally exist. These are usually graphically emphasized by quotation marks in the narrative text. However, that does not apply to foreign words. As quotes from a foreign language code, they are not enclosed in quotation marks and in this case, the hallmark of the “foreign word” is exclusively, its foreign linguistic form or foreign pronunciation.

    In a literal sense, “foreign speech” is a word that originates from another, nonnative language, for example, English, French, Russian, etc. However, “foreign speech” is not just a foreign word. A text written in a native language but from another author can have a role of foreign speech. It can be a separate word or an entire construction spoken by a character in a novel, by the author or the narrator. An example of “foreign speech,” in its widest sense, also includes such constructions that originate from another plain of the text, which is distinguished from the main text, from the rest of the style, from the language region, from the other personal manner of expression and at the end, from another language, completely different from the native one – that is, a foreign language. The problem of the foreign in contrast to the native narration refers to the relation: the author's text (original): translation text, narrator's expression: character's expression with all variations of the retold text as foreign in the language of the raconteur (author or narrator). And, essentially, they are the intertextual metatextual and metalinguistic relations.

  • People You May Know: Homosexual Men's Identity in the Time of Social Networking Services

  • from ON-LINE/ OFF-LINE
  • Edited by Jarosława Płuciennika, Peter Gärdenfors
  • Book:
    On-line/Off-line
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    12 January 2018
    Print publication:
    01 January 2016, pp 89-114

  • Summary

    Abstract

    In the following article several key points are highlighted from a doctoral thesis enti-tled Gay Men, Social Media and Self-presentation: Managing Identities in Gaydar, Facebook and Beyond written by Elijah M. Cassidy at the University of Technology in Queensland, Australia. The dissertation focuses on the ways in which homosexual men, who use both niche and mainstream Social Network Services (SNS), manage their identities therein. The research uncovers the entanglements of various practices employed in both spaces and presents complex privacy concerns. It also refers to manifold peculiarities of Inter-net-mediated communication and the ambivalent impact of mainstream and niche SNSs on the sense of collectivity of the researched group. Having presented the main ideas of Cassidy's research I determine the connection between his conclusions and those drawn from two Polish studies which recently treaded the relatively uncharted waters of this research area.

    Key words: internet-mediated communication, identity, queer studies, social media

    My interest in how homosexual users of Social Networking Services shape and manage their identities was sparked by a doctoral dissertation enti-tled: “Gay men, social media and self-presentation: managing identities in Gaydar, Facebook and beyond” written in 2013 by Elija M. Cassidy at the University of Technology in Queensland, Australia. In my paper I would like to take a closer look at this research and consider the relevance of an Australian academic's questions in a Polish context. The following abbre-viations will be used in the course of this paper–SNS (Social Networking Service), RL (Real Life, situations which are not Internet-mediated, offline), FB (Facebook) and GD (Gaydar).Having acknowledged the adequacy of the term “research participants” in the case of the Australian qualitative research, due to linguistic aptness I will be using it interchangeably with the term “respondents”.

    The research question raised by Cassidy was supposed to investigate “how do the cultures and practices surrounding identity management on Gaydar, as an example of an existing, community-specific SNS, fit into the broader ecology of its users’ engagements with newer mainstream SNSs, such as Facebook, and their identity management processes in this space” (Cassidy 9).In other words, Cassidy aimed to research how homosexual men between 18–28, living in the city of Brisbane, use two types of SNSs in the process of identity management and what similarities and differences of activities within these two spaces can be observed.

  • Preliminary notes on linguistic documents from the von Celsings’ 18th century Ottoman collection

  • Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Barbara Podolak, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
  • Book:
    Words and Dictionaries
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    18 January 2018
    Print publication:
    01 January 2016, pp 341-352

  • Summary

    Diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Sweden and the Ottoman

    Empire came into being on a regular basis during Charles XII's forced, near five-year stay, in the Ottoman territory, following his defeat at Poltava in 1709. During that time, the Swedish king dreamt of retaliation on a common enemy, the Moscow tsar Peter I, and sought to persuade the Turks to enter into a military alliance and to undertake a joint struggle.

    One of Charles XII's messengers to Ahmed III's court in Constantinople was Gustaf Celsing (1679–1743), who enhanced, previously occasional, diplomatic relations with the Ottoman Porte. Celsing was fascinated by Ottoman culture; he learned Turkish and began to collect books and works of art. His two sons, Gustaf Junior (1723–1789) and Ulric (1731–1805), with his encouragement and support, followed in the footsteps of their father. Both received a thorough education in the humanities including Oriental languages at the University of Uppsala. Later they were to master the Turkish-Ottoman language, in both speech and writing, at the Swedish legation in Constantinople.

    Gustaf went to Constantinople in 1745 and stayed there, aside from occasional travels to Sweden, until 1775. After holding different diplomatic positions he was appointed in 1750 Swedish envoyé. During his stay in Constantinople, the Kingdom of Sweden, one of the former great powers in Europe, acquired an official residence in Pera. Gustaf continued to collect various art objects and engage artists to decorate with paintings both the legation and his future home in Sweden. He also amassed an impressive library, containing some six hundreds volumes on such subjects as Oriental languages, history and geography, as well as Oriental manuscripts. Gustaf's younger brother Ulric left for Constantinople in 1755. He had a similar career path to his older brother,and became his successor as the Swedish envoyé in 1770. Ulric shared his fatherand brother's interest in the study of Turkish folklore and language. He acquired several Turkish manuscripts of various content and added them to the collection of his older brother. Ulric Celsing's Turkish manuscripts were donated to the Uppsala University Library through his testamentary disposition.

    Initially, the library and the collection of more than one hundred paintings and works of art was housed in Stockholm, at Gustav Adolf Square, and later moved to a wooden mansion in Biby, Södermanland, an estate bought by the brothers in 1781.

  • Towards a Generic Analysis of the Microblog (Based on a Study of Twitter)

  • from LITERATURE AND CONVERGENCE
  • Edited by Jarosława Płuciennika, Peter Gärdenfors
  • Book:
    On-line/Off-line
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    12 January 2018
    Print publication:
    01 January 2016, pp 209-236

  • Summary

    Abstract

    This article is an attempt to determine the place of microblogs, posted on Twitter, on the Internet or, more broadly in the multimedia genealogy.

    First, the service itself is presented and mechanisms of its functioning are described. Then its importance for society is mentioned. Furthermore, some crucial issues related to the theory of genres are presented and they constitute an essential introduction to the re-search methodology. The “guides” on the path of reflection and on the characteristics of microblogs are the “older siblings” of this form of expression: the Internet, journalistic and other genres, whose determinants have already been described. Such an order is matched against another one – the tradition of genres’ description in four aspects: structural, prag-matic, cognitive and stylistic.

    Key words: microblog, new genres, multimedia genealogy, theory of genres, Twitter

    Introduction

    The goal of this article is to establish a preliminary definition of the place of microblogs, published on the Twitter website, in the Internet – or more broadly, multimedia – genealogy. It will be accompanied by reflection on genealogy itself, since–making this goal an especially interesting research challenge–the current state of research on the genres of all linguistic texts does not give any ready answers to the questions concerning them that are asked by linguists and literary critics, as well as by media studies schol-ars and scholars of culture in general. The analysis presented below is not a synthesis of long-term studies on the issues connected with Internet communication and its genealogy, but an “exploratory” record of contact with them. Thus it is also not motivated by the idea of presenting a defini-tive solution, but of showing the points that give rise to further questions. Such an approach allows one to look at a relatively new1 phenomenon with the curiosity of an “explorer”.

    First of all the service itself and the way it works will be presented, and next its meaning in society. After as brief a presentation as possible of Twitter, I will go on to the core issues tied to the theory of genres, which are an essential introduction to the study's methodology. As “guides” on the path of reflection about the genealogical description of microblogs I have chosen the “older siblings” of this form of expression: Internet genres, press genres and other speech genres whose characteristics have already been described.

  • Chapter I - The main literature on Justiniana Prima

  • Stanisław Turlej, Jagiellonian University
  • Book:
    Justiniana Prima
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    10 January 2018
    Print publication:
    01 January 2016, pp 23-46

  • Summary

    Although Justiniana Prima was destroyed and forgotten as a city, the memory of its Church's tremendous importance endured in the tradition and titulature of the Archbishops of Ohrid, playing a significant prestigious role. Establishing the location of this centre became a subject of keen interest only in the early 1530s, when Procopius’ work De aedificiis was popularised as a result of printed editions being published. Issues related not directly to Justiniana Prima but more generally to the native country of Emperors Justin and Justinian were also included in discussions on problems concerning their origins. Modern academic research devoted either directly or indirectly to Justiniana Prima only sporadically refers to the older literature, mainly to the 18th-century works about the history of the Church in Illyricum. In discussions about the origin and history of this centre, the actual point of reference is usually the research from the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. Its present value is mainly due to the fact that it attempted to interpret issues practically unresolved until today and that it has a good opinion. The older literature should also sometimes be used in order to correctly understand theories which appeared in later works. This concerns not only surprising statements suggesting the existence of unknown sources or descriptions of events that supposedly took place in the history of Justiniana Prima, but most importantly misunderstandings which stem from a lack of historical analysis of the main accounts without which it is impossible to understand the historical role of this centre. As a result of this approach an artificial and distorted picture of the city and its significance was created and has been functioning since. If works do not contain any footnotes or precise references, then without a thorough analysis of the sources and literature it is difficult to get a grasp on the actual state of the research, and no names of outstanding historians guarantee that the information is reliable. In such situations the shortage of historiographical works on collecting and analysing studies about Justiniana Prima is particularly conspicuous. If they existed, such works would perhaps allow us to leave behind very old and, more importantly, outdated or erroneous beliefs.

  • Quelques notes lexicales sur le Vocabulaire de la langue turque de Joseph von Preindl

  • Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Barbara Podolak, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
  • Book:
    Words and Dictionaries
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    18 January 2018
    Print publication:
    01 January 2016, pp 265-274

  • Summary

    Sur la vie de l'1uteur autrichien Joseph von Preindl (en version francisée Joseph de Preindl) nous n'1vons réussi à trouver presque aucune information, malgré nos recherches ; en fait, ce que l'1n peut en dire, on ne le tire que de son oeuvre même. Il vécut au 18ème siècle, étudia les langues orientales à Vienne (comme on lit dans l’Avertissement placé en guise d'1ntroduction au début de sa Grammaire) et approfondit sa connaissance du turc en voyageant longtemps dans les territoires de l'1mpire Ottoman, ainsi qu'1n peut le déduire des nombreuses descriptions des us et coutumes turcs dont son oeuvre est parsemée et qui, de toute évidence, se fondent sur leur observation directe. Ensuite il entra comme interprète au service de la cour de Prusse: sa Grammaire est dédiée « à Sa Majesté le Roi de Prusse Frederic Guillaume II le bien aimé », dont l'1uteur se professe « le plus humble, le plus obeissant, & le plus fidelle serviteur ». Au cours de son existence il écrivit un Essai d'1ne Grammaire Turque (Schleswig 1787), réélaborée plus tard comme Grammaire turque d'1ne toute nouvelle methode d'1pprendre cette langue en peu de semaines avec unvocabulaire enrichi d'1necdotes utiles et agreables (Berlin 1789), avec deux réimpressions immédiates et sous le même titre, toujours à Berlin, dans les années successives (1790 et 1791).

    Si maintenant nous examinons brièvement en détail l'1euvre de Preindl, sur la base de l’édition de 1790, nous voyons qu'1lle est ainsi structurée: la véritable exposition grammaticale subdivisée en sept chapitres (pp. 1–109) ; trois autres chapitres qui contiennent respectivement des « Dialogues » (pp. 110–154), des « Proverbes Turques » (pp. 155–162), des « Fables » (pp. 163–172), suivis de l'1raison Dominicale (pp. 172–173) ; enfin, un dictionnaire français-turc en ordre alphabétique (” Vocabulaire de la Langue Turque », pp. 177–588). Comme le montre les quatre cents pages qu'1l compte, ce dictionnaire constitue de loin, la partie la plus importante de tout le travail de Preindl – le nombre d'1ntrée turques qu'1l contient s’élève à plusieurs milliers – ce qui en fait donc le troisième grand répertoire lexical turc-ottoman apparu en Europe vers la fin du 18ème siècle, à côté de ceux de Pianzola et Viguier.

  • Chapter Five - Prometheism in reverse: Ukrainian irredentism and Polish-Soviet relations

  • Jan Jacek Bruski, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
  • Book:
    Between Prometheism and Realpolitik
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    12 January 2018
    Print publication:
    01 January 2016, pp 189-266

  • Summary

    Before March 1923: The first trial of strength

    The Bolsheviks were well aware of the potential latent in the nationality issue and the possibility to use it against Poland. The creation of Soviet “buffer” republics, with the right to self-determination confirmed in the Treaty of Riga, was an outcome of Moscow's need to satisfy Ukrainian and Belarusian aspirations, but from the very outset it also had a dimension which transcended the field of domestic affairs, and this was perhaps its most important aspect. The republics bordering on Poland were to become political and cultural magnets attracting the Slavic minorities living in Poland, and the anti-Polish sentiments prevalent in them were to be consistently nursed and nurtured from Kharkiv and Minsk, in the hope of destabilising the domestic situation of their western neighbour.

    One of the first to notice the potential for such action was Emmanuil Kviring, the delegate of Soviet Ukraine to the Riga peace negotiations. In a memorandum dated 30th November 1920 he wrote, “The severance of a large part of Volhynia with a population of several million and the incorporation of Eastern Galicia in Poland confronts our Party and government with a new challenge – to take over the ideological leadership and the organisation of the revolutionary movement which will inevitably arise in those territories as a consequence of Polish occupation.” He suggested the launch and propagation of an insurrectionary propaganda campaign exploiting the national issue among the Ukrainian peasantry. “The movement's slogans should be formulated in a simple manner and linked inextricably with the national awareness of the peasant masses: ‘against the Polish lords,’ ‘land for the Ukrainian peasant,’ and ‘power for the soviets’ viz. for the Ukrainian peasantry.” The aim of the forthcoming uprising was to be the incorporation of Volhynia and the Chełm region in Soviet Ukraine and the creation of an independent Galician SSR, which would mean a return to the concept that could not be accomplished during the campaign against the “White Poles” in the summer of 1920. Kviring realised there would be problems with seizing control of the peasant movement and argued that appropriate measures should be undertaken as soon as possible to “prevent the chauvinists, who must already be very busy in these regions, from outrunning us.”

  • Conclusion

  • Stanisław Turlej, Jagiellonian University
  • Book:
    Justiniana Prima
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    10 January 2018
    Print publication:
    01 January 2016, pp 205-210

  • Summary

    Justiniana Prima is the name of a city built by Emperor Justinian I (527–565) to honour the place of his birth, whose momentous significance was decided when its Church was granted the rank of an independent archbishopric with its own province. Although a relatively large amount of written sources, confirming the existence of this city from 535 to the early 7th century, have survived, almost nothing is known about the city itself. This is equally true of the origins of Justiniana Prima, which are difficult to reconstruct, its functioning as a city, and its mysterious end. It is accepted in the literature on the subject that, when Byzantium lost its reign over a considerable part of the Balkans as a result of invasions and wars against the Avars and the Slavs during the rule of Heraclius (610–641), the city was probably abandoned and destroyed. Until the present day, it has been impossible to establish the undisputable location of the city, which is why everything that is known for certain comes from the written sources, the most significant of which are Emperor Justinian's Novels XI and CXXXI and Procopius of Caesarea's De aedificiis, in the part devoted to Emperor Justinian's native country.

    The starting point for reconstructing the unknown aspects of Justinian's religious policy, which consisted in introducing changes in the ecclesiastical organisation by promoting cities where prefects resided, is an interpretation of Novel XI. The novel's very existence in the legal reality of the time clearly revealed the Emperor's goal of introducing changes in the ecclesiastical organisation on the highest level, concerning the jurisdiction of patriarchs; the establishment of the Archbishopric of Justiniana Prima is a trace of those changes. The uniqueness of Novel XI consists in:

  • the unprecedented scale of changes in the ecclesiastical organisation introduced by this constitution,

  • the achievement of Justinian's goal by means of state law,

  • the use of such a sophisticated legal text by the Emperor.

    • The last issue is important but so far it has been completely overlooked. It is worth using the surviving summaries of Novel XI as a background in order to show how jurists at the time understood the essence of the change in the ecclesiastical organisation which this constitution introduced.

  • Part Two - Under pressure of Constantinople

  • Krzysztof Stopka, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
  • Book:
    Armenia Christiana
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    12 January 2018
    Print publication:
    01 January 2016, pp 77-142

  • Summary

    The Armenian Church and the Empire of the East (6th to 9th century)

    After the Synod of Dvin only the Churches of Iberia and Albania, and some of the Syrian Monophysites adhering to the Aphthartodocetic doctrine were still formally in communion with the Armenians of Persarmenia. But rifts were already beginning to show. When Catholicos John II (558–574) demanded Abas, Catholicos of Albania, insert the addition “you who were crucified for us” in the Trishagion, the latter refused, saying that it was against the position taken by his predecessors. Moreover, there were similar problems with the Bishop of Syunik, who must have shared the views of the head of the Albanian Church, and perhaps also with the Catholicos of Iberia. Chalcedonianism had set down firm roots with the Armenian subjects of the Roman Empire as well. The 6th-century Armenian monks who said the liturgical office in their native language in the monastery founded by St. Saba in Palestine, most certainly embraced the Chalcedonian Christology. Many Armenians followed it because they were convinced of its truth, not only for fear of imperial repressive measures or due to the intrigues of ambitious individuals. After the fall of the uprising against the Persians Catholicos John II and Armenian church leaders went into exile in Constantinople, and there he is said to have embraced Chalcedonianism, despite the threats sent to him in many letters from Persarmenia. The Catholicos died in exile in 574, and his companions settled in Pergamon, where there was still a large colony of Armenian Chalcedonians in the 7th century. The Armenian “schism” was limited only to Persarmenia and the Sassanid Empire.

    From this time on all changes whatsoever in the Armenian Church depended on the way the political situation between the two countries developed. Shah Khosrow II Parviz (591–628), who owed his throne to Emperor Maurice (582–602), was not averse to the Christians of both countries maintaining Relations. In this period a substantial part of Persarmenia and Iberia lay within the borders of the Empire of the East, with only two Armenian provinces, Vaspurakan and Syunik, left outside. In this situation the Emperor tried to pressure all the Armenians into embracing Chalcedonian orthodoxy. In 591 he ordered a synod summoned to Karin-Theodosiopolis, to which all the Armenian hierarchs and vardapets were invited.

  • II - На тие зборои… (On those words…) – Place and Function of Prepositions in Folk Tales by Marko K. Cepenkov

  • from C - FOLKLORE
  • Maciej Kawka, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
  • Book:
    Macedonian Discourses
    Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    12 January 2018
    Print publication:
    01 January 2016, pp 239-249

  • Summary

    The preposition together with language elements accompanying it – the verb that substantively specifies the noun, which, in turn, dominates the preposition, in accordance with classical theory of word group, can, usually acting before the noun (only in some languages after it) fulfill grammatical or actual (spatial etc.) function.

  • •In current researches of preposition's behavior in language, attention is paid to their semantic function, with acceptance or negation of Jerzy Kuryłowicz's well-known thesis that the preposition is the main sub-morpheme of case.

    • Different semantic criteria primarily related to object localization or localization of events in place and time, are used for classification and determination of prepositions’ actual (semantic) functions. In addition, different prepositions can express causative, purposeful meanings or can be just indicators of temporal and spatial relations.

    By accepting, primarily, the semantic criteria, more or less correct or sometimes only approximate classifications of all possible semantic relations and meanings of prepositions (prepositional expression) are determined.

    In addition, preposition functions are often considered exclusively in the range of their closest contextual connections, but never in broader sense than their function of connecting the verb with the preposition and the noun or just the preposition with the noun. Such manner of analysis is sometimes prone to formulating insufficiently motivated theses on the semantic independence of prepositions. Thereto, all possible semantic fillings used in poetic language are excluded.

    In elaborating the problem concerning prepositions, several criteria which serve to determine the said meanings of prepositions dominate. The type of prepositional construction meaning is decided by:

  • •Nominal context (type of connection with the noun),

  • •Verbal context (type of connection of the preposition with the verb),

  • •Both contexts together,

  • •Standpoint according to which, prepositions have semantic independence.

    • Most importantly, the preposition is placed in a sentence and together with independent (meaningful) expressions takes part in its construction. Accordingly, prepositions, similarly to case suffixes, take part in determination and establishment of the relations between expressions, parts of the sentence. However, majority of prepositions do not determine spatial and other relations existing in the real world totally unambiguously since a given relation can be built from several deferent prepositions or their combination.

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