Abstract. Fraisse Luc, Le discours aux morts dans « La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu » de
Giraudoux [The Speech to the Dead in Jean Giraudoux's « The Trojan War Will Not Take Place »].
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznań, vol. XXXIII : 2006, pp. 316. ISBN 83-232-1643-6, ISSN 0137-2475.
The "Speech to the Dead" delivered by Hector in Jean Giraudoux's play The Trojan War Will Not Take
Place (1935) exemplifies a cultural adaptation achieved by moving the relevance of the interwar period
into the world of antiquity and the world of Homer. In 1935 Hector's speech expresses the protest of the
whole generation against the First World War. But a closer look at this famous scene will demonstrate
that Giraudoux actually defines the nature of the theatrical word which enables what is absent from the
stage to appear on the stage, and which gets addressed to the unknown, mysterious interlocutors.
Therefore the explication of these two tirades unveils a peculiar theory of the theatrical language.
Abstract. Komacka Barbara, Il mito del paese di Cuccagna e la pubblicità televisiva italiana
[The myth of the land of Cuccagna and Italian television advertisement]. Studia Romanica
Posnaniensia, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznań, vol. XXXIII: 2006, pp. 17-30. ISBN
83-232-1643-6, ISSN 0137-2475.
The article compares medieval and Renaissance literary descriptions of the mythic land of eternal
bliss and prosperity Cuccagna with pictures and texts of Italian television advertisement of the
nineties. The characteristic moments of these descriptions such as, for example, abundance,
satisfying sensual needs, celebrating and feasting as well as the evaluation of the described
phenomena, in these distant texts of culture, are very similar to each other. Italian television
advertisement appears as another contemporary image of the land of bliss Cuccagna.
Abstract. Prosowska Monika, «Le sentiment de la langue » dans l'oeuvre de Richard Millet
["The feeling for language" in Richard Millet's literary work]. Studia Romanica Posnaniensia,
Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznań, vol. XXXIII : 2006, pp. 31-47. ISBN 83-232-16436, ISSN 0137-2475.
A key concept is this work is a term coined by Richard Millet and used in the title of his essay Le
sentiment de la langue ("Feeling for language"). It allows for a broad interpretation of the author's
fiction, in which language experience is in the center of attention. This language experience is
examined on the level of narration techniques, the process of establishing the speaker's voice, on
the ethics of social relations as expressed by language, and on the status of the novel itself.
Through a binary presentation of these issues, Millet does not strive after solutions, but rather
aspires to highlight the dynamism of the phenomena of language and literature.
Abstract. Teklik Joanna, Comment le témoignage devient une œuvre littéraire : Le cas de Robert
Antelme et de Primo Levi [How testimony becomes a literary work: the case of Robert Antelme
and Primo Levi]. Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznań,
vol. XXXIII : 2006, pp. 49-63. ISBN 83-232-1643-6, ISSN 0137-2475.
Can a testimony, a text similar to a document, be a literary work? The answer to this question is
definitely positive in the case of R. Antelme (L'espèce humaine) and P. Levi (Se questo è un
uomo) who relate their experience from a concentration camp. These authors, remaining faithful
to the truth, do not neglect aesthetic requirements, using known narrative techniques and
skillfully maintaining the tension characteristic of literary texts. They use an innovative form of
narration. It is fragmentary and broken, which fully reflects the character of the prisoners' fate.
Finally, a new conception of humanity and a deep reflection on human nature (the titles are
meaningful themselves) prove the literary character of both texts.
Abstract. Wołowski Witold, La sémantique du prototype et les genres (littéraires) [The
semantics of prototype and (literary) genres]. Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, Adam Mickiewicz
University Press, Poznań, vol. XXXIII : 2006, pp. 65-83. ISBN 83-232-1643-6, ISSN 0137-2475.
The proposal of this paper, situated at the meeting point of linguistics and poetics, is to discuss
the applicabilty of same selected prototypical thesis to the research on litterary genres. It
examines the following questions: status and internal structure of generic categorisations
(hierarchical levels, gra-duality), J.-M. Adam's sequential theory, origin of prototypicality
judgements in literature, archetype-prototype relation, difficulties in prototypical analysis of
generic hybridity.
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Abstract. Beszterda Ingeborga, Alcune considerazioni inerenti all'architettura dell'italiano
contemporaneo [Some remarks on the architecture of contemporary Italian]. Studia Romanica
Posna-niensia, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznań, vol. XXXIII : 2006, pp. 85-95. ISBN
83-232-1643-6, ISSN 0137-2475.
This article describes certain fundamental issues relates to the current linguistic situation in Italy:
the analysis of reciprocal relations between the national language and the Italian dialects
(diglossia, bilinguism); the internal variants of Italian language depending on geographical
location, social stratification, circumstances of the communication and the communication
channels; the patterns of repertory proposed by famous linguists; some crucial problems
concerning contemporary linguistic situation in Italy as: the importance of the diatopic variation;
the recognition of the tension between Italian standard language derived from literary tradition
and a new common form of the standard language; the recognition of the existence of a
substandard variant - popular Italian.
Abstract. Cychnerski Tomasz, Alternanţele vocalice neregulate din flexiunea verbală
românească [Irregular vocalic alternations in the Romanian verbal inflection]. Studia Romanica
Posnaniensia, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznan, vol. XXXIII: 2006, pp. 97-104. ISBN
83-232-1643-6, ISSN 0137-2475.
This paper, that is part of a bigger research project concerning the morphonology of the standard
contemporary Romanian, concentrates on the irregular vocalic alternations in the Romanian
verbal inflection. Seventeen of the twenty-four possible alternations are irregular. The context in
which the alternant members appear is analysed precisely according to the units that follow and
precede them. The analysis shows that six of all the alternations are only morphologically
conditioned. The e ~ a alternation acquires the categorial function in the structure of three verbs.
Abstract. Domańska-Gruszka Jolanta, Calcul interprétatif métaphorique à l'exemple de la
structure « Le NI est un N2 » [Interpretative metaphoric calculation on the example of the
structure of le NI and un N2]. Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, Adam Mickiewicz University
Press, Poznan, vol. XXXIII : 2006, pp. 105-112. ISBN 83-232-1643-6, ISSN 0137-2475.
In the present paper the author tries to analyze the phenomenon of linguistic metaphor not at the
level of 'langue' but rather as the result of discursive uses. The basic predicative structure le NI est
un N2 in French in metaphorical use is treated not as categorization but as characterization of
subject. The author compares pragma-semantic and discursive approach of the metaphorical
predication and its interpretation - analogy as included in the system and 'conformity judgment' as
a local characterization. The final considerations are about philosophical implications of
metaphorical words uses.
Abstract. Floricic Franck, Remarques sur la négation connexionnelle en occitan languedocien
[Remarks on the connective negation in Languedocian variety of Occitan]. Studia Romanica
Posna-niensia, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznan, vol. XXXIII : 2006, pp. 113-132.
ISBN 83-232-1643-6, ISSN 0137-2475.
The aim of this paper is to offer a description of sentence negation in the Languedocian variety of
Occitan. After a brief overview of the general properties of negation in Occitan, it will be shown,
on the basis of unpublished dialectological data gathered in the 60's and 70's, that in some
localities within the Occitan area the negative marker pas has cliticized. However, gapping
structures show that in the dialects in which pas has acquired clitic status, it is still possible to use
the tonic form, thus pointing to the conclusion that in these dialects sentence negation has two
allomorphs. The last part of the paper deals with cliticization as a general phenomenon, and
questions Witold Manczak's view according to which there is no basis for a distinction between
tonic and atonic forms. The problem of frequency will be discussed, and it will be argued that the
cliticization phenomena presented in this paper should not be analyzed as a consequence of this
factor.
Abstract. Jereczek-Lipinska Joanna, Le bloc-notes en expansion - autre média, autre discours
[The blog expanding - another media, another discourse]. Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, Adam
Mickiewicz University Press, Poznan, vol. XXXIII : 2006, pp. 133-143. ISBN 83-232-1643-6,
ISSN 0137-2475.
This text falls under research of the discursive analysis as in what one qualifies of the blogoscopy
to knowing in the analysis still little developed phenomenon of the blogs. These new media are in
full expansion in France. We thus propose to analyze this advent of the new media while starting
with simple observation of the language which it generates, while passing by its definition,
typology and structure and to arrive finally at the influence and the range that it will be able to
have on the political and media speech.
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Abstract. Fernández Jódar Raúl, Análisis de errores en la producción escrita de los aprendices
polacos de español: las preposiciones [Error analysis on written production of Polish learners of
Spanish: the prepositions]. Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, Adam Mickiewicz University Press,
Poznan, vol. XXXIII : 2006, pp. 145-157. ISBN 83-232-1643-6, ISSN 0137-2475.
The article analyses the prepositional system of Polish learners of Spanish interlanguage at three
different levels. The author's intention is to show that in spite of wide prepositional system the
errors in the use of prepositions are few. For this reason its teaching in Spanish as a foreign
language classes should not create problems.
Abstract. Lisowska Monika, Chat: ¿ "conversación escrita" o "texto escrito oralizado"? [Chat:
"written conversation" or "oral written text"?]. Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, Adam Mickiewicz
University Press, Poznan, vol. XXXIII : 2006, pp. 159-167. ISBN 83-232-1643-6, ISSN 01372475.
The aim of this paper is to show the discursive duality of the online conversation, also known as
online chat. Although this kind of communication seems to be similar to face-to-face chat, it
cannot be ignored that chatroom discourse is text-based. The author describes the online chat as a
mixture of features from spoken and written discourse, wanting to answer whether it is closer to
the one or to the other kind of discourse.
Abstract. Nkollo Mikołaj, Le passif et les converses de relation [Converse Relations and Passivel
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznan, vol. XXXIII • 2006
pp. 169-180. ISBN 83-232-1643-6, ISSN 0137-2475.
Verbs in the passive voice along with their active counterparts have been frequently associated
with couples of converse relations. The present paper disclaims, on historical and inflectional
grounds, the existence of equivalence between them. Although similar, each of these types of
expressions exhibits a significant number of peculiar traits. The main argument put forward states
that formal differences between active and passive forms are a main hindrance to treat them
analogously to converse relations
Abstract. Pirogowska Ewa, L'oralità dans la communication asynchrone via Internet sur les
exemples du discours du cyberespace français et italien [Orality in the asynchronous
communication via Internet on the examples of discourse in the French and Italian cyberspace].
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznan, vol. XXXIII : 2006,
pp. 181-197. ISBN 83-232-1643-6, ISSN 0137-2475.
The aim of the article (based on the ffragments of the doctoral dissertation) was the analysis of
the spoken language functioning in the Italian and French cyberspace as a communication system
secondary to the oral skills (orality) of the first human groups. The thesis is the following: in the
electronic communication the two language uses, the written and the spoken, cannot be treated
separately, as a dichotomy, as they coexist and are connected by one common code, "work"
language, Computer Mediated Communication. The communication presented is devoted to the
conversational analysis of discourse in the asynchronous communication, the dialogue exchange
on forums and discussion groups. The notion-keys are as follows: asynchrony of dialogue
microspace, inter-subjective space, sequential implicativness, conversational strategy.
Abstract. Sikora-Pouivet Dorota, Pourquoi revient-on à ses moutons ? Un regard croisé sur la
valeur sémantique du retour en français et en polonais [Why "revient-on à ses moutons"? A cross
look at the semantic value of the concept of "retour" in French and in Polish]. Studia Romanica
Posnaniensia, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznan, vol. XXXIII : 2006, pp. 199-218.
ISBN 83-232-1643-6, ISSN 0137-2475.
French verbs revenir, rentrer, retourner refer to the same kind of location situations as their
Polish « doubles » wrócić/wracać. This paper analyzes their meanings through examples
presented with their contextual data. Revenir and rentrer are morphologically analysable as
complex lexemes derived from the corresponding venir and entrer by adding the prefix RE-. REderivation provides a semantic feature of iterativeness to these complex items. From a synchronic
point of view, retourner, in the sense investigated in this article, cannot be considered anymore as
RE- derived, but it lexicalizes similar values. Wracać/wrócić share some of them. Some
differences in the lexical meaning of all these verbs are explained, especially by showing how
they are used as pragmatic indexes inside the relation between the speaker and a reference to a
location.
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Abstract. Beszterda Ingeborga, Szpingier Beata, Eufemismo in italiano: interdizione verbale nel
lessico legato alla sessualità femminile [Euphemism in Italian: linguistic interdiction in the
vocabulary concerning the feminine sexuality]. Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, Adam Mickiewicz
University Press, Poznan, vol. XXXIII: 2006, pp. 219-226. ISBN 83-232-1643-6, ISSN 01372475.
The objective of this analysis is a description of euphemism in the onomastics referring to a
woman through the lexicology of erotica found in everyday circulation. The description is not
merely confined to lexemes referring to a women but also contains words describing parts of her
body, physiological functions and sexual activity. Sexuality belongs to those domain which
constitute a basis for a linguistics ban, indubitably, repression too. Studies of language prove that
linguistic denial is inseparably tied with and present in interhuman communication.
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