The Anatomy Of Polish Offensive Words

Author : Łukasz Zarzycki
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027247308

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The Anatomy of Polish Offensive Words by Łukasz Zarzycki Pdf

Swearing plays an important role in everyday language. We swear in the streets, at school, universities, at work and at home, on the means of transport, with family and friends. People have used swear words for centuries and they will continue to use them. The Anatomy of Polish Offensive Words examines offensive and vulgar language of young Poles in their everyday life including its forms, uses, manifestations and the ways in which people censor their words and sentences. The book presents a novel viewpoint on people’s psyche since we observe how society reacts to other humans so as to impose taboos by censoring Polish language. This book is the first book written in English on Polish swearing intended for the international reader (both linguists and non-linguists) who can benefit from it. It offers an intriguing look into Polish swear words, their classification in terms of offensiveness both from the perspective of quantitative and qualitative research but also from the AI (Artificial Intelligence) viewpoint. Mixed methods research, i.e., a questionnaire-based study and a corpus-based study, makes the research original. The findings deepen our understanding of swearing and its role in language.

Author : Adrian Tien,Lorna Carson,Ning Jiang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030634759

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An Anatomy of Chinese Offensive Words by Adrian Tien,Lorna Carson,Ning Jiang Pdf

This book offers a precise and rigorous analysis of the meanings of offensive words in Chinese. Adopting a semantic and cultural approach, the authors demonstrate how offensive words can and should be systematically researched, documented and accounted for as a valid aspect of any language. The book will be of interest to academics, practitioners and students of sociolinguistics, language and culture, linguistic taboo, Chinese studies and Chinese linguistics.

Author : Omer Bartov
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789207194

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Voices on War and Genocide by Omer Bartov Pdf

Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov’s acclaimed Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together previously unknown accounts by three individuals from Buczacz. These rare narratives give personal glimpses into daily life in unsettled times: a Polish headmaster during World War I, a Ukrainian teacher and witness to both Soviet and German rule, and a Jewish radio technician, genocide survivor, and member of the Polish resistance. Together, they offer a prismatic perspective on a world remote from our own that nonetheless helps us understand how people not unlike ourselves responded to mass violence and destruction.

Author : Frances Millard
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015029119982

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The Anatomy of the New Poland by Frances Millard Pdf

Poland is significant not only because events there triggered the downfall of Communism throughout the region, but also because of the bold economic experiments of the new Polish leadership.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2812571

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The Polish Review and East European Affairs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Roman Laba
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400861552

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The Roots of Solidarity by Roman Laba Pdf

In July 1980, two weeks before the Gdansk shipyard strikes, Roman Laba arrived in Poland as an American graduate student. He stayed there for almost two and a half years before he was arrested and expelled from the country for "activities noxious to the interests of the Polish state." Laba had set himself the ambitious task of documenting the history of Poland's free trade union. Martial law was in force for the last year of his stay, but even during that time he continued his rescue of the unique historical materials that contribute so much to Roots of Solidarity. The book uses this hard-earned information to challenge the commonly accepted view of the Polish intelligentsia as the driving force behind Solidarity and to demonstrate that the roots of the movement go back a decade earlier than the 1980 strikes. Laba presents compelling evidence that Solidarity emerged directly from the activities of workers in the 1970s along the Baltic coast. It was not the intellectual elite but these workers, independent of and unknown to the rest of Poland, who created three crucial strategies for struggle against oppression: the sit-down strike, the interfactory strike committee, and the demand for free trade unions independent of the party state. This concise and provocative work is divided into two parts. The first is a narrative of the creation of Solidarity. The second shows how workers' resistance to the Leninist state gradually generated new forms of democratic organizations and politics. Laba criticizes elitist ways of understanding social movements and also presents an unusual analysis of Solidarity's ritual symbolism. In addition, new evidence transforms our understanding of the role of the police and the army in a one-party state. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : David Ives
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Polish Americans
ISBN : 0822219565

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Polish Joke by David Ives Pdf

THE STORY: A comedy about ethnic identity and the eternal American search for roots. Jasiu (thirtyish) is a Polish-American who has been taught not to value his own roots, so he decides to make his own roots, reinventing himself first as a sort o

Author : Elizabeth Leake
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802092793

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After Words by Elizabeth Leake Pdf

After Words investigates how the suicide of an author informs critical interpretations of the author's works. Suicide itself is a form of authorship as well as a revision, both on the part of the author, who has written his or her final scene and revised the `natural' course of his or her life, and on the part of the reader, who must make sense of this final act of writing. Elizabeth Leake focuses on twentieth-century Italian writers Guido Mor-selli, Amelia Rosselli, Cesare Pavese, and Primo Levi, examining personal correspondence, diaries, and obituaries along with popular and academic commemorative writings to elucidate the ramifications of the authors' suicides for their readership. She argues that authorial suicide points to the limitations of those critical stances that exclude the author from the practice of reading. In this innovative and accessible assessment of some of the key issues of authorship, Leake shows that in the aftermath of suicide, an author's life and death themselves become texts to be read.

Author : Emery Reves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : International cooperation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005169474

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The Anatomy of Peace by Emery Reves Pdf

The Dallas Symphony Association is proud to publish this special edition of "The Anatomy of Peace" in memory of its author Emery Reves. The book's basic tenant is that the only condition required for peaceful human relations is the creation of a World Federation governed by one set of international laws. The "one law" concept is predicated on the interdependence of humankind and is built on a concern for the common good. Mr. Reves contends that separateness is the manifestation of differences, yet there is a connection among all people which must be recognized and nurtured. -- From publisher's description.

Author : Robin Higham,Stephen J. Harris
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813167619

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Why Air Forces Fail by Robin Higham,Stephen J. Harris Pdf

Includes two new chapters! “One of the more interesting and better books on military aviation to appear in the last few years.”—Journal of Military History Since the publication of the first edition of Why Air Forces Fail, the debate over airpower’s role in military operations has only intensified. Here, eminent historians Robin Higham and Stephen J. Harris assemble a team of experts to add essential new details to their cautionary tale for current practitioners of aerial warfare. Together, the contributors examine the complex, often deep-seated, reasons for the catastrophic failures of the Russian, Polish, French, British, Italian, German, Argentine, and American air services. Complemented by reading lists and suggestions for further research, this seminal study with two new chapters provides an essential and detailed analysis of defeat. “Contains many interesting insights and interpretations . . . an excellent introduction to the study of military failure in general and air forces in particular.”—Journal of America’s Military Past “I recommend this book to those who are interested in air forces and air power, whether amateur or professional, past, present and future.”—Richard Cobbold, Bryanston: The Yearbook “Provides an excellent analysis of the root causes of failure; this engaging study goes far beyond the aerial battlefield to examine the circumstances leading to defeat.”—Dennis Drew, Colonel, USAF (Ret.)

Author : Kirsten Bell
Publisher : Caw Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781399936330

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Silent but Deadly by Kirsten Bell Pdf

'A fabulous read' - Gillian Tett, author of Anthro-Vision: How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life 'Learned but witty' - Nigel Barley, author of The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut An entertaining anthropological tour through the big answers to life’s little questions. Why do farts evoke laughter and disgust? Is the aversion to the left hand universal? Are dogs really humankind’s best friend? Why do we tip wait staff but not teachers? In Silent but Deadly: The Underlying Cultural Patterns of Everyday Behaviour, Kirsten Bell, an anthropologist who has lived in five countries on four continents—and learned about cultural gaffes by constantly committing them—places our everyday behaviours under the microscope. Boldly going where no anthropologist has gone before, no topic is too small or insignificant for Bell’s attention, whether it’s washing machines in kitchens, buying rounds at the pub, toilet paper, or searing. The kind of book Jared Diamond might write if he was more concerned with the meanings of bodily emissions than the collapse of civilizations, Silent but Deadly deciphers the cultural patterns that underlie our everyday quirks, foibles, and habits.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D01713847R

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Tatler by Anonim Pdf

Author : Olga Tokarczuk
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525534211

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Flights by Olga Tokarczuk Pdf

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx) "A magnificent writer." — Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time "A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." — Washington Post From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082989669

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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edwin Battistella
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199883837

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Bad Language by Edwin Battistella Pdf

Is today's language at an all-time low? Are pronunciations like cawfee and chawklit bad English? Is slang like my bad or hook up improper? Is it incorrect to mix English and Spanish, as in Yo quiero Taco Bell? Can you write Who do you trust? rather than Whom do you trust? Linguist Edwin Battistella takes a hard look at traditional notions of bad language, arguing that they are often based in sterile conventionality. Examining grammar and style, cursing, slang, and political correctness, regional and ethnic dialects, and foreign accents and language mixing, Battistella discusses the strong feelings evoked by language variation, from objections to the pronunciation NU-cu-lar to complaints about bilingual education. He explains the natural desire for uniformity in writing and speaking and traces the association of mainstream norms to ideas about refinement, intelligence, education, character, national unity and political values. Battistella argues that none of these qualities is inherently connected to language. It is tempting but wrong, Battistella argues, to think of slang, dialects and nonstandard grammar as simply breaking the rules of good English. Instead, we should view language as made up of alternative forms of orderliness adopted by speakers depending on their purpose. Thus we can study the structure and context of nonstandard language in order to illuminate and enrich traditional forms of language, and make policy decisions based on an informed engagement. Re-examining longstanding and heated debates, Bad Language will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers engaged and interested in the debate over what constitutes proper language.