Faculty of Cultural Studies and Modern Langauges

The volume, inspired by Professor Wełna’s life-long studies in historical linguistics, brings together scholars researching topics in various fields of the history of the English language. Nine chapters devoted to different linguistic disciplines gather articles covering sound and spelling changes, historical word-formation processes, selected semantic domains, and manuscript variants.

In the broader perspective the book addresses the history of linguistic thought with authors incorporating different tools of analysis in historical research.

This paper examines English equivalents for Latin pronouns offered by the gloss translator of the Lindisfarne Gospels. In particular, we are interested in the types of correspondence attested in the glosses, i.e., whether one Latin pronoun
is  glossed  with  the  same  Old  English  equivalent  consistently  throughout  the text, or whether the choice of form is context- or language-structure dependent.
If no such dependence can be identified in the case of numerous OE elements for a Latin form, the analysis focuses on the reasoning behind the scribal inter-pretation.

The present paper discusses the distribution of the two most common Mediaeval English euphemisms of Satan, i.e. fiend and enemy, in religious prose. We focus on the rivalry between the foreign word and the native word, comparing the contexts in which the two words tended to occur, and attempting to determine the semantic status of the French word enemy in relation to the sense originally denoted by fiend. The data come from the Middle English period, when French loanwords began to compete semantically with native words.

The present study aims at discussing the use of the Old English ÆFTER in the glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospels, in order to establish patterns of equivalence between the OE gloss and an array of Latin source terms it renders. We are particularly interested in examining the consistency of such glossing, which would allow us to demonstrate the basic and peripheral senses of ÆFTER as well as its synonyms used in the collection. In an attempt to provide ground for a wider discussion of possible patterns in Old English gloss translation, the study compares the Aldredian employment of æfter and its forms with their use in the Rushworth Gospels, reportedly based on the Lindisfarne collection. The data for the present study come from the Dictionary of Old English Corpus (henceforth DOEC), analyzed with AntConc, a corpus analysis toolkit developed by Laurence Anthony. The findings are further supplemented with a close analysis of the editions by Skeat (1970), as well as the digitalized manu...

Kult przeszłości jest zawsze jednym z elementów ideologii nacjonalistycznej. Jeśli ta przeszłość jest zbyt skromna, nie wystarczająco bohaterska, szlachetna i wzniosła, bojownicy o święte narodowe interesy starają się wykreować jej lepszą, bardziej satysfakcjonującą wersję. Często także, zwłaszcza w sprzyjającej ku temu sytuacji społecznej i politycznej, ich zadanie polega na wprowadzeniu społeczeństwa w stan zbiorowej amnezji, poprzez wykluczenie pewnych elementów przeszłości z przestrzeni publicznego dyskursu.

The essay attempts to reconstruct the picture of Roma people which is included in Andrzej Stasiuk prose, famed and extremely influential Polish writer, whose books are one of the major source of  information – for what is told its audience – about, among other things, Romani population in Central-East Europe. Starting from theory of critical discourse analysis, the author shows that Stasiuk imagination of Gypsy based on dangerous and dominant stereotypes which could be compare to racist and apartheid ideology.

The paper illustrates out three issues subject to discussion. The first refers to particular stages of the modern nation building process by the Macedonian Slavs that continues through the second half of the 20th century until this day. As I attempt to prove, the Macedonian nationalism, aimed at creating new Slavic nation, could not have been successfully conducted unless supported by the socialist Yugoslavia. The proceeding disintegration of Yugoslavia introduced a reconstruction of most essential Macedonian identity discourses. As a result of this process, some sections of political and intellectual elites have been tackling the issue of persuading the Macedonian society that their ancestry derives from antiquity. Just as their communist predecessors, they reconstruct the image of a Macedonian “ideological homeland” by means of architectural memory implants. However, I will attempt to present that their activities could be interpreted as a new and alternative concept of identifying their national community. The contemporary policy of managing the cultural landscape executed by Macedonian authorities is not only an element of nationalist ideology, but also an attempt to create a nation brand that is in favor of international recognizability. Kruševo, "the sacred town" of Macedonian nationalism, is the space in which we can observe how this process works.