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contemporary Polish-German relations (1)
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language situation in school education (1)
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Language use of a bilingual child – an analysis of case studies
Ilona Banasiak Magdalena Olpińska-Szkiełko
Keywords bilingual child bilingualism multilingualism
The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of maternal and paternal languages on the development of a bilingual child's language. It is assumed that a mother's language has the greatest influence on a child's language. In addition, maternal language is responsible for the largest part of the variety in the language children understand and use as well as the development of bilingualism. We also believe that fathers influence the language of a home and mothers influence the language of a child. In our analysis, the focus is on the quantity and quality of exposure to the given languages, the pattern of language used by parents, the language of formal instruction and the style of parentchild interaction. Over one hundred and fifty case studies were under examination depicting various language constellations, such as e.g. Polish and English, Polish and Russian, Polish and German, Polish and Ukrainian, Polish and Belarusian, Polish and Italian. Hence, with this paper we hope to be able to better understand cross-linguistic influence on bilingual speakers.
The effect of interlingual and intralingual semantic priming on translating ambiguous words
Józef Maciuszek Tadeusz Unrug
Polish Psychological Bulletin | 2018 | vol. 49 | No 2: Integrated approach to personality and well-being | DOI: 10.24425/119489
Keywords ambiguity semantic priming translating homonyms bilingualism
The two experiments described in this article are focused on semantic priming in the context of lexical ambiguity and hierarchic model of mental lexicon. For both experiments, the verification method was a decision taken in the process of translating a sentence from Polish (L1) to English (L2). The decision was a result of solving dilemma of interpretation of the particular sentence that included homonym. The sentences used in the experiments were prepared in a manner that allowed them to be interpreted in at least two ways – each way being a direct result of interpretation of a ambiguous word meaning included in a sentence. In this study the secondary meanings of the homonyms were primed. In the first experiment the primes were presented in L2 – therefore this part of the study was concentrated on interlingual aspect of semantic priming. The second experiment was focused on intralingual aspect of semantic priming and the primes were presented in L1. The results of both experiments have shown the effect of semantic priming of ambiguous words' meanings when translating from one language to another. Participants used significantly more often (when translating sentences from Polish to English) those English words the meaning of which was primed in the experimental groups during the first phase of the conducted experiments. We discuss the results in the context of the hierarchic model of mental lexicon in the case of bilingualism and we suggest possible paths for future research.
Peculiarities of bilingual language situation in secondary schools of Ukraine (according to the results of a mass survey)
Oksana Danylevska
Keywords sociolinguistics language situation in school education bilingualism diglossia language policy
The article summarizes the results of sociolinguistic study of the language environment of secondary schools in Ukraine, on the basis of which the conclusion about its bilingualism was made. It is proved that the quality of the language environment does not correspond to the declared school status. Changes in the assessment of the language environment of schools from 2006 to 2017 are identified and it is concluded that it is possible to develop recommendations for improving the legal support of the use of languages in the Ukrainian education.
Zapożyczenia z języka polskiego związane z wyglądem zewnętrznym, odzieżą i ozdobami w rosyjskiej gwarze staroobrzędowców z ośrodka suwalsko-augustowskiego
Dorota Paśko-Koneczniak
Slavia Orientalis | 2017 | vol. LXVI | No 4 | 673-685
Keywords Old Believers loan words bilingualism Suwałki-Augustów Region interference
The aim of the article is to present loan vocabulary connected to clothes and ornaments. The Old-Believers' dialect is subject to Polish interference on the lexical level because vocabulary is the linguistic element which is changing most rapidly. The dialect studied is situated in the Polish linguistic environment and thus it is isolated due to its lack of territorial contact with the Russian language. It belongs to the so-called Pskov group – the western Central Great Russian akanie dialects. Since the 1950s, when research into the dialect was initiated by Iryda Grek-Pabisowa and Irena Maryniakowa, the biggest increase in loan words has been noticed in the vocabulary related to health, jobs, clothes and ornaments, and the expressions used to refer to the new reality: the progress of civilisation, education, transport and agriculture. The lexemes borrowed are subject to various adaptation processes, for example, phonetic, stress-pattern, morphological or derivational ones.
German Lexical Items Among Iraqi-Arabic-German Bilinguals: Code-Switches or Borrowings?
Qasim Hassan
Folia Orientalia | 2018 | vol. LV | 143-159 | DOI: 10.24425/for.2018.124682
Keywords Iraqi-Arabic German borrowing code-switches language contact bilingualism
The question of what is the difference between borrowing and code-switching has attracted the attention of scholars far and wide and gave at the same time rise to a plethora of publications in order to draw a boundary between these two terms. In the most recent of these publications (Grosjean 1982, Poplack & Meechan 1995 & 1998; to name but a few), it has been often argued that borrowings are donor-language items that are integrated in the grammar of the recipient language at a community level, while code-switches take place at individual level and they retain the grammar of the language from which they derive. However, the current political and economic uncertainties in various regions of the world have been found to cause mass refugee movements to conflict-free places, where contact between newcomers and locals usually lead to some kind of linguistic interinfluencing. The current study discusses the contactinduced German-origin lone lexical items used by Iraqi-Arabic-speaking refugees in Germany. It is the aim of this study to show whether or not these lexical items can be considered as code-switches or established borrowings. The data I am analyzing come from spontaneous and elicited conversations of the first and second wave of Iraqi- Arabic-speaking refugees and asylum seekers to Germany as well as from online- and paper-pencil-questionnaires.
Dialog. Magazyn Polsko-Niemiecki: 30th Anniversary of a bilingual magazine (a monographic study)
Paulina Olechowska
Rocznik Historii Prasy Polskiej | 2018 | t.21 | z.4 | 45-67
Keywords contemporary Polish-German relations bilingual print media Polish-German cultural relations
This article presents a media-studies profile of the bilingual periodical Dialog. Magazyn Polsko-Niemiecki / Dialog. Deutsch-Polnisches Magazin, which is the biggest project of this kind in Europe. In spite of occasional problems with funding, it has been around without a break since 1987. Committed to the goal of building a better understanding between two nations torn apart by war and strife, the editors have opened their magazine to all aspects — political, cultural and economic — of Polish-German relations.
Studying bilingual and multilingual language identities: natural settings versus formal instruction
Danuta Gabryś-Barker
LINGUISTICA SILESIANA | 2019 | vol. 40 | 341-359 | DOI: 10.24425/linsi.2019.129417
Keywords language identity bilingualism multilingualism metaphoric perceptions natural settings formal instruction immersion
Becoming more and more a multidisciplinary domain of study, the development of research in second language acquisition, and even more visibly in multilingualism, has moved away from its sole focus on cognitive aspects to social-affective dimensions. Consequently, research in these areas makes more extensive use of research methodology characteristic of social sciences. The focus on identity brings together issues of social context and the construction of one's identity through negotiation of who we are, how we relate to the outside world and how we position ourselves in relation to others (Pavlenko 2001). Language is the main tool in this construction/ negotiation through the acquisition/learning and use of multiple languages. In relation to the development of one's multilingual identity, the major distinction has to be made between acquiring a language in its natural context (the case of one's mother tongue or immigration) and learning it in formal contexts. Block (2014) believes that the issue of identity can only be studied in a natural environment of language acquisition, and not in a formal instruction context. This article aims to confi rm or reject the above belief, based on evidence from various studies of bi- and multiple language users and how they perceive their identities and their relation to the languages in their possession. It includes a pilot study of trilingual language learners and their understanding of how the individual languages they know (L1, L2, L3) build their identities and the way they enrich, impoverish or challenge who they see themselves to have been by birth (Gabryś-Barker 2018). The issues discussed relate to external (other people, situations, contexts) and internal identity-building factors (individual affectivity, personality features).
О СПЕЦИФИКЕ СЛАВЯНСКОЙ ЯЗЫКОВОЙ ЛИЧНОСТИ В ПУНКТАХ СМЕШАННОГО ПРОЖИВАНИЯ ДОНСКИХ КАЗАКОВИ УКРАИНЦЕВ НА ТЕРРИТОРИЯХ ПОЗДНЕГО ЗАСЕЛЕНИЯ
Natalia Tupikowa
Slavia Orientalis | 2018 | vol. LXVII | No 1
Keywords Slavic language personality bilingualism vocabulary of dialect users Don and Ukrainian dialects Podonje (area between the Volga and the Don)