Wydział Filologiczny

This paper examines the variety of language used by the community of Twitch.tv with the application of descriptive and corpus-based methods. Twitch.tv is one of the world's most visited websites for live broadcasting of video games; the unusual conditions under which the website's users engage in discussions and express themselves gave birth to a language variety which only very remotely resembles any other internet-specific way of communicating. Twitch.tv is a website accessible from all the European, South/North American and East-Asian countries and the main language used by the majority of the site's users is English. The most fascinating aspect of the site from the linguistic point of view is the possibility for all its users to write on the chat. Approximately 400 000 users are logged in at any given time and during major broadcasts more than 100 000 users are often talking simultaneously on the same chat. These factors had an immense impact on the nature and structure of the messages. The huge interlingual gaming community (aged 16-26 on average) developed a very peculiar way to comment on the broadcasts and discuss the games being played. The language used on Twitch.tv chats is abundant in neologisms and meaningful site-specific emoticons. The corpus-based study I conducted indicates that the messages are extremely context-dependent and follow certain syntactic patterns.

In this paper I present a corpus-based study of the interference of the verb say from English source texts into their Polish translations. I compare a sizeable corpus of native Polish fiction with corpora of English-Polish fiction translations and argue that the various forms of the verb say commonly used in the English narration influence the choices made in some (albeit not all) of the Polish translations. In order to exemplify my claims I use parallel corpora to show how two different professional translators working with an identical set of source texts were influenced by the narrative verb distribution.

An analysis of a translated literary text requires a critical approach which should be as objective as possible. Even though quantitative methods (such as corpus analysis) are accurate and provide the researchers with specific data, they do not account for richer pragmatic layer of the literary texts to a satisfactory extent. Qualitative methods which may also be used to discuss pragmatics of a text are, however, greatly based on the analysts’ judgement. In order to achieve acceptable level of objectiveness, the qualitative method of translation’s analysis must therefore be formalized to a certain extent. In my research I intended to create a framework which would make it possible to detach the analyst from the text. In order to achieve this goal, I eventually decided to deconstruct both the translated text and the source text into a set of pragmatic variables, which can be then subject to comparative analysis. In this paper I present my framework and introduce my first attempt to at least partially formalize the pragmatic approach to translation. I also present a number of case studies with the application of this framework.

Aim. The aim of this paper is to present and exemplify a number of basic uses of
corpus-based text analysis tools that can supplement and provide additional insight
for an otherwise qualitative analysis of a text. I attempt to show that nowadays certain
corpus tools are easily accessible to any researcher and can be used to enrich the results
of studies concerned with texts.
Methods. This paper comprises the basics of corpus building, the main types of data
that can be drawn from a simple corpus and a detailed description of four methods that
can aid text analysis: wordlists, concordances, dispersion plots, and keywords. Each
of those four methods is thoroughly described, including a number of examples of its
applications and indicates its possible limitations.
Results. The examples provided suggest that even performing a very simple corpus
analysis of a text might unveil certain trends and phenomena not noticeable through
the classic qualitative text analysis methods (e.g. close reading). The paper argues that
corpus research can hence work as an extension of a quantitative analysis (or be its
starting point) by examining themes and keywords present in a given text and enrich
the results of a qualitative study with a fresh perspective. Finally, the paper claims that
basic corpus analysis can, in fact, be successfully employed by researchers who do not
have any prior experience with statistics or corpora.
Key words: Corpora, text analysis, concordance, wordlist, keyness, dispersion plot,
corpus building

Aim. The aim of this paper is to present and exemplify a number of basic uses of corpus-based text analysis tools that can supplement and provide additional insight for an otherwise qualitative analysis of a text. I attempt to show that nowadays certain corpus tools are easily accessible to any researcher and can be used to enrich the results of studies concerned with texts. Methods. This paper comprises the basics of corpus building, the main types of data that can be drawn from a simple corpus and a detailed description of four methods that can aid text analysis: wordlists, concordances, dispersion plots and keywords. Each of those four methods is thoroughly described, including a number of examples of its applications and indicates its possible limitations. Results. The examples provided suggest that even performing a very simple corpus analysis of a text might unveil certain trends and phenomena not noticeable through the classic qualitative text analysis methods (e.g. close rea...

Gerald Gutek (2003: 15) definiuje szkołę jako wyspecjalizowaną instytucję społeczną, której głównym zadaniem jest nauczanie młodych ludzi potrzebnych umiejętności, przekazywanie im wiedzy i wpajanie określonych wartości. Jednym z głównych elementów, stanowiących podstawę tego procesu, jest pedagogika, którą -poprzez nawiązanie do greckiej etymologii tego słowa, terminów pais i ago -można rozumieć jako "prowadzenie ku". Tym tropem podąża Mariusz Dębiński, proponując, aby pedagogikę postrzegać w kategoriach czynności, dzięki której dochodzi się do celu, lecz która sama w sobie celu nie stanowi. Jest to perspektywa interesująca, tym bardziej że stara się on udowodnić, że pedagogika może być jednym z najważniejszych -wręcz podstawowych -czynników, które wpłynęły na ukształtowanie się pierwszych ludzi europejskiej cywilizacji. Konstatuje on, że […] pedagogika nie powinna być sprowadzana do działań realizujących zamiary, jej idea powinna bardziej koncentrować się na tworzeniu podstaw, dzięki którym dopełnia się możliwość realizacji celów (Dębiński 2010: 35).

Mianem najważniejszego zasobu ekonomicznego współczesnej gospodarki Joseph E. Stiglitz, jeden z klasyków myśli ekonomicznej i laureat Nagrody Nobla z 2001 roku, określił i n f o r m a c j ę. Opinia taka mogła pojawić się dzięki zmianom cywilizacyjnym, jakie pociągnęła za sobą rewolucja technologiczna, prowadząca do bezprecedensowego zwielokrotnienia zasobów cyfrowych i prędkości ich przetwarzania. Niniejsze studium sytuuje się właśnie na pograniczu ekonomii i nauki o informacji. Jego przedmiotem jest atrakcyjność oferty edukacyjnej uczelni wyższych Dolnego Śląska i Polski dla studentów zagranicznych. Pozycjonowanie takiej oferty dokonuje się w przestrzeni informacyjnej, określanej jako infosfera. Stąd liczne odwołania do zasobów internetowych, z których korzystają potencjalni kandydaci, a także terminologia i pojęcia nauki o marketingu i public relations. Praca nie zawiera osobnego rozdziału poświęconego stanowi badań, ponieważ proces "utowarowienia edukacji" w zasadzie nie pojawiał się dotąd jako przedmiot systematycznej refleksji naukowej. Autor kieruje w tym miejscu podziękowania pod adresem Urzędu Marszałkowskiego Dolnego Śląska, który niniejsze badania finansował, a także profesora Jerzego Kalety z Politechniki Wrocławskiej, który od lat, w ramach różnych projektów badawczych, występuje w roli organizatora i lidera badań konkurencyjności innowacyjnej i edukacyjnej Dolnego Śląska 1. Adam Pawłowski 1 Prof. Jerzy Kaleta kierował czterema projektami, poświęconymi badaniom innowacyjności technologicznej w regionie dolnośląskim. Dwa najważniejsze to "Dolnośląskie Centrum Studiów Regionalnych" (http://www.dcsr.wroc.pl/) oraz "Makroregion innowacyjny. Foresight technologiczny dla województwa dolnośląskiego do 2020 r." (http://www.foresight.wroc.pl/).

Linguistic landscape of contemporary Poland: back to the future? The situation of the Polish language, approached from the perspective of the today’s language policy, is stable. New phenomena include emancipation of dialects (particularly Silesian ones) and large-scale appearance of languages used by immigrants from the East: Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarusian (including their vernaculars: Surzhyk, Prostorieche, Trasianka). Perhaps the Polish language as realised by such immigrants, that is similar to old varieties of Borderland Polish, will become an integral part of the linguistic landscape of Poland.

The objective of the experiment described in the article was the evaluation of Polish digital resources searchable by the engine Europeana. Queries were created so as to represent proportional shares of common names, named entities and their combinations. They were manually enriched by students, experienced professionals and humanities-oriented educated persons. The system responses were then evaluated according to their Mean Average Precision. The average efficiency of information retrieval for Polish monolingual queries was weak: there were only 26.6% of highly relevant responses and as much as 73.5% of queries produced unsatisfactory results. MAP produced the best results for the automatic search (0,314), while enriched files contained less relevant results: for the expert users MAP value was 0,1795, for the educated users it was 0,1529 and for students 0,1279. The overall results proved that the IR process concerning Polish resources searchable by Europeana require significant i...