Stylistyka

O idei Słownika biograficznego stylistyki slawistycznej

MARZENA MAKUCHOWSKA — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

František Miko, jeho autentická funkčná štylistika a impulzy pre súčasnú štylistiku

ALENA BOHUNICKÁ — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The article examines the stylistic theory of František Miko, a prominent Slovak thinker of the 20th century. Miko’s expressional conception of style is defined by two methodological attributes: functional and structuralist. Although Miko did not align with the mainstream of functional stylistics, he pioneered an authentic form offunctional structuralism, focusing on the artistic text and style through two pivotal categories: reception and, in a later period, conception. He associated reception with ‘effect’, and conception with ‘attitude’ and ‘modality’, all fundamentally experiential,communicative, and pragmatic categories. This article evaluates Miko’s expressional conception from both contemporaneous and modern perspectives, highlighting the distinctive features of Miko’s functional stylistics in comparison to the classical functional styles established by the Prague School and later developed in Slovak linguistics by J. Mistrík. It also examines the contributions of his original stylistic framework to contemporary stylistic research
aims, particularly within the inclusive stylistics project of the Bratislava team of linguists led by J. Dolník and O. Orgoňová. The inclusive communication style is characterised as a value-oriented approach to language use, grounded in the principles of freedom and equality. However, concerns often arise regarding the authenticity versus stereotyping of inclusive stylisations, referred to as quasi-inclusiveness. This communicative challenge connects closely to Miko’s notion of conception.

Hoffmannová Jana

PETR MAREŠ — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The paper gives an overview of the scientific activities of the eminent Czech linguist Jana Hoffmannová, researcher at the Institute for the Czech Language of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Since the end of the 1970s Jana Hoffmannová has been mainly engaged in text linguistics and the study of verbal communication. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the spoken Czech, the style of spoken texts and the structure of dialogue have become one of the main subjects of her interest. She has published numerous papers on, for example, intertextuality in spoken communication or on the stylization of speech in literary works. Stylistic issues have been dealt with by Jana Hoffmannová in many works. She is the author of the handbook Stylistika a… (Stylistics and..., 1997), in which she describes the relationships between stylistics and other disciplines focused on text and communication. She analyzed the heterogeneity of style in contemporary literature or stylistic tendencies in academic discourse. Electronic communication is another important subject of her research.

Selekčná štylistika Jozefa Mistríka a jej oporné body

MILOŠ HORVÁTH — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The central theme of the presented study is the scientific and theoretical contribution of Professor Jozef Mistrík to functional stylistics, which has been continuously developing in Slovakia since the mid-20th century. The aim of the study is to describe and interpretively evaluate Mistrík’s selective stylistic theory, built on the explication of style-forming factors (objective versus subjective), and to create space for its potential elaboration within the framework of modern, communication-oriented stylistics of an interdisciplinary disposition. The second supporting point of the paper is the concept of the stylemma, through which Mistrík once again demonstrates his structuralist and instrumentalist understanding of the style-forming and text-formingprocess. The stylemma thus acquires the status of the basic structural unit of the text, signaling its prevailing style and functional orientation in communication.

Stylistyka w ujęciu Teresy Skubalanki

MARIA WOJTAK — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article presents, from various perspectives, the achievements of Teresa Skubalanka (1928–2016) in the field of stylistics. Her work falls within the framework of linguistic stylistics, understood as an autonomous discipline (a part of general stylistics),
which differs from literary stylistics primarily in its descriptive categories, scope of research, and methodological perspectives. The result of the scholar’s multifaceted research is an original contribution to several sub-disciplines of stylistics, including
theoretical, historical, descriptive, and practical stylistics. This body of work is characterised, on the one hand, by methodological consistency and a keen awareness of the complexity of stylistic issues, and on the other, by an evolution of views driven by the delineation of new research areas, the stimulation of further inquiry, and the search for optimal methodological approaches.
Skubalanka’s detailed investigations were part of the dominant research trend in the second half of the 20th century, known as functional stylistics. She developed an original concept of functional style and proposed her own typology of language varieties. She enriched her stylistic theory with several operational concepts, including the notions of function, comparison, context, choice, and accommodation.

Między przystępnością a nakłanianiem. Wykorzystanie efektu H2H w badaniach komunikacji marek

AGNIESZKA GRAŻUL-LUFT, TOMASZ PIEKOT — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article investigates whether and to what extent the H2H proximisation strategy, commonly used to assess language readability, can also be applied to analyse the persuasive and manipulative functions (conation) of brand communication. The H2H effect refers to the explicit marking of personal deixis in the text, such as sender and receiver references. Analysing these markers could facilitate the identification of distinct interpersonal communication styles. The analysed texts were polish texts from the websites and Facebook pages of the ten brands ranked as the most user-friendly globally (according to the Siegel+Gale Global Simplicity Index). Our mixed-methods approach combined automated analysis of the H2H effect with a qualitative examination of sentences containing explicit sender and receiver markers. The language of the analysed brands meets readability standards related to interpersonal communication. Most brands use a symmetrical H2H style, maintaining a similar balance of sender and receiver markers. However, the qualitative analysis revealed numerous non-prototypical uses of personal deixis, particularly in thecase of sender markers. Recipient markers (such as “you”) tend to exhibit clearerpragmatic roles, while sender markers (“I”, “we”) are more often used in complex,
non-standard contexts. Most brands adopt a balanced, symmetrical relational style. The application of the H2H strategy depends largely on text type and communicative function, especially when language is used for conative purposes. This use of language can complicate readers’ perception of interpersonal relationships in brand communication.

„Kobiecość” jako konstrukt. Tekstowo-dyskursywna analiza stron internetowych męskich i żeńskich świeckich wspólnot katolickich w Polsce

KATARZYNA SKOWRONEK — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

After the Second Vatican Council, the role of the laity in the Catholic Church increased significantly. Some of the laity began engaging more actively in their local congregations by affiliating with various Catholic organizations and communities, whose social influence continues to grow. This article aims to describe and interpret two constructs of femininity through a textual-discursive analysis of online portals run by male and female Catholic lay communities in Poland, with the goal of identifying differences and their social causes. The study analyzed approximately 40 websites of communities whose members are either male or female, along with materials from the Catholic press. It focused on textual references to women, specific female figures, and discursive representations of femininity, drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of the order of discourse and Norman Fairclough’s theory of discursive mechanisms. The comparison reveals significant differences. In texts produced by male communities, femininity is correlated in different ways with stereotypical traits of dominant masculinity. This model is conservative and traditional; femininity is either invisible, generalized, or idealized (through images of Mary). By contrast, texts from women’s communities tend to challenge and reinterpret traditional models, portraying femininity as reflective, evolving and increasingly autonomous.

Nazwy własne związane z deskrypcją przestrzeni w „przewodniku dla turystów mentalnych” Pawła Dunin-Wąsowicza i Andrzeja St. Rodysa. Z zagadnień onomapoetyki utworu

ADAM SIWIEC — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The article discusses names related to descriptions of space in the book Odczapów. Przewodnik dla turystów mentalnych („Randomville: A Guide for Mental Tourists”). Its main aim is to show how these names function within the conventions of a tourist
guide, against the backdrop of stylistic devices associated with its ludic transformation – that is, the parodic modification of the guidebook form. Spatially marked expressions are various toponyms that name objects and, being components of descriptive sentences, define their location. First of all, this role isplayed by those names that identify and distinguish different places of the fictionalerritory described in the guide, while at the same time serving the linguistic and graphic representation of space (in the prose and on maps). Secondly, there are also toponyms that connect the text with the reality they imitate (toponomastic tropes). Those names that determine topofication occupy a prominent position in the literarymessage and constitute an inalienable part of world-centred narration. That is, they contribute to the spatial creation of the world intended in this specific work, naming
and distinguishing its various components.

Mova tradicìjnihì novih ukraïnsʹkih medìaresursìv ulìteraturno-normativnomuì funkcìonalʹno-stilʹovom

TETÂNA A. KOCʹ — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The article traces the trends of the Ukrainian language in two aspects: literarynormative and functional-stylistic, based on the material of modern digital media resources. The relevance of the study is determined by the need for a new linguistic analysis of the systemic impact of information technologies on the dictionary, grammatical structure, and stylistic differentiation of the literary language. The use of receptive-stylistic methods (functional-stylistic, structural, semantic-axiological, semantic-differential, linguistic-cultural) made it possible to establish positive changes and negative tendencies of the language.
It has been established that the mechanisms of the digital space contribute to natural language processes: the return to use of Ukrainian means, the activation of potential opportunities for word formation, the restoration of the semantics of value nominations lost under the influence of external factors. Threats of the digital era are associated with the spread of conscious and unconscious subjective, false information, which causes artificial lexical regulations of the semantics of words, the formation of artificial units for the purpose of information warfare; with uncontrolled functioning of foreign words not adapted to the laws of language; violation of the traditional Cyrillic script; the influence of interactive means on stimulating speech compression; with stylistic diffusion, which destroys the foundations of functional differentiation of the literary language.

Novinové žánry v emigraci (Na základě analýz prvních českých a německých periodik ve Spojených státech amerických)

ALENA JAKLOVÁ — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The paper briefly informs about the mass emigration of Czechs and Germans to the USA that took place in Europe in the 19th century. It then examines the Czech and German immigrant press, especially the first periodicals/newspapers that both ethnicgroups began to publish in the country across the sea. Both Czech and German periodicals were printed only in their mother tongue for almost the entire 19th century. This paper presents a corpus of material that has been analyzed to determine the newspaper genres most commonly found in these early periodicals. It is difficult to assess the types of primarily Czech genres, because at the beginning of the second half of the 19th century many genres were still emerging, not only in the immigrant press, but also in the press at home, in the homeland. Nevertheless, applied analyses have clearly shown that Czech and German periodicals always had a predominantly
news section at the beginning of their existence, i.e. news from home, Europe, the USA and local news. Moreover, the subject matter and content of these reports also document the degree of integration of immigrants into the new society and the degree
of their assimilation with it.

Koncepcja Rozproszonego Korpusu Dyskursu Akademickiego

KAMIL WABNIC — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article aims to present the concept of the Dispersed Corpus of Academic Discourse (Rozproszony Korpus Dyskursu Akademickiego – RKDA), still under construction. The corpus is a research project focused on collecting linguistic data to facilitate multifaceted studies of Polish scholarly, didactic, and popular science texts. Current efforts concentrate on the development of two subcorpora: one consisting of abstracts from academic articles published in 2023 in journals from the official ministerial list, and the other comprising academic lectures. The latter is at a more advanced stage and is expected to be completed in 2025. Ultimately, RKDA will include both written and spoken texts across various genres of academic discourse, ensuring broad applicability for research purposes. Data collection methods are tailored to the type of text, with separate metadata sheets customized for each subcorpus. The corpus includes basic morphosyntactic annotation (Stanza), which is further enriched with additional layers of annotation as analysis progresses. Depending on licensing agreements and author permissions, parts of the corpus will be made available via Korpusomat.eu and the Sketch Engine. RKDA’s main goal is to enable systematic research on academic texts, including stylistic and genological analysis, as well as to support anti-plagiarism and pro-innovation initiatives within the academic community.
The originality of the project lies primarily in its combination of written and spoken data, and in the creation of a partially open, multi-genre resource of academic discourse developed in stages and continually expanded.

Slovenská štylistika v rokoch 1970 – 2020 (premeny štylistického uvažovania)

OĽGA ORGOŇOVÁ, ALENA BOHUNICKÁ — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Over the past 50 years, Slovak stylistics, has undergone a process of pragmatisation, aligning with broader developments in the social sciences, while maintaining continuity or continuity of structuralist methodology. This evolution is reflected in its adaptation to the communication-pragmatic turn in linguistics. Traditional functional Slovak stylistics (particularly between 1970 and 1990) is grounded in the notion that (standard) language functions as a predefined tool, independent of its users, situational context, cultural-historical anchorage or media. In stylistic research, this manifests itself in an orientation towards a purposeful way
of expression and deliberate handling of language (Mistrík, 3rd edition 1997). An essential aspect of this approach is the overestimation of repeatability and regularity in relation to style and the abstraction of profiling styles as model structures (Findra
2013). However, F. Miko acknowledges a certain degree of variability in the texts produced, in opposition to the theoretical framework of the expression theory of styles. His definition of styles as a “unique or standardized dynamic configuration of expressive properties in text” (Miko 1970) underscores an understanding of stylistic variability and processuality, challenging the rigid schematization associated with reductionist deductive invariants (static models) of style.
Between 1990 and 2010, Slovak stylistics undergoes a shift toward sociolinguistic research, marking a departure from the study of language as a systemic phenomenon in favour of examining its communicative functions. J. Bosák advocates for focusing on the typification of communicative practices based on special sublinguals within the entire national language emphasizing the characteristic expressive material used to facilitate flexible and contextually appropriate speech behaviour (Bosák 1995).
Similarly, D. Slančová conceptualizes style as a distinctive mode of verbal interaction, wherein communicative participants engage with established registers which represent socially conventionalized patterns. (most recently Slančová 2019).
In the digital era of the 21st century, Slovak stylistics has emerged as a highly interdisciplinary and dynamic field that investigates human-mediated interactive speech communications. Under this framework, style is culturally embedded and discursively fluid, lacking prescriptive formulations and existing as a set of recommendations. Contemporary stylistic inquiry is conducted inductively, aiming to identify and analyse communication styles within prototypical spheres of communication. The neofunctionalist approach (Gajda 2006) within this paradigm seeks to observe and interpret the meaning of participant interactions in communicative acts as well as the effects produced by such interactions (Dolník 2013) This conceptualisation of stylism is reflected in the works of V. Patráš, O. Orgoňová or A. Bohunická (cf. Patráš 2019; Orgoňová - Bohunická 2018).

Pragmatizácia slovenskej štylistiky digitálnej éry

OĽGA ORGOŇOVÁ, ALENA BOHUNICKÁ — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In this study, we respond to the fact that the context of the scientific interpretation of the stylistic differentiation in communication is formed by the framework conditions of contemporary communication, characterized by tendencies such as mediatization,
digitalization, and the gradual democratization of social processes. Functional styles are transformed under the influence of new media, which expand communication possibilities and, at the same time, relativize classic style-forming factors, especially
objective ones such as author, environment, addressee, function. The expansion of the communication space of each style into the digital space significantly affects the functions it fulfills, the dynamics of genres (the transformation of traditional genres,
the emergence of new genres and the disappearance of some traditional genres) and the qualitative transformation of styles (the form and stylistic values characteristic of expressions realized in individual spheres of communication change). The present
study aims to clarify the shift in the division and reflection of the communication continuum in the stylistics of the last 50 years. This is achieved using the support of traditionally divided communication spheres: the sphere of ordinary communication,
the sphere of professional communication, the sphere of institutional contact, the sphere of mass media communication, the commercial sphere, and the sphere of artistic creation. Furthermore, the study specifically addresses the spheres of rhetoric,
which affect the entire communication continuum.

Česká stylistika 1970–2020

JANA HOFFMANNOVÁ, PETR MAREŠ — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The first part of the chapter presents an overview of the development of Czech stylistics after 1970. It draws attention to the important work of three Czech researchers: K. Hausenblas, M. Jelínek and A. Stich. It also mentions the reflection of the issue
of style by literature scholars (M. Červenka, M. Jankovič, Z. Kožmín). Concerning the period after 1989, attention is devoted to the rising number of synthetic works, the authors of which are J. V. Bečka, the collective of J. Chloupek, M. Čechová, M. Krčmová and E. Minářová, and the group led by J. Hoffmannová (J. Homoláč, E. Chvalovská, P. Kaderka, L. Jílková, P. Mareš, K. Mrázková). J. Hoffmannová’s
book Stylistika a…[Stylistics and…] (1997) was focused on searching for the position of stylistics in the interdisciplinary context, above all in relation to newer fields and approaches. As for the prominent features of stylistic research, among others, there is mention of the re-evaluation of the concept of functional styles (e.g. in favor of communicative spheres) and style-forming factors, turning the attention to the style characteristics of dialogues and spoken expression, the research on conversationalization and colloquialization in public communication and the growing heterogeneity of texts accompanying the development of electronic communication.
The chapter then devotes further attention to the individual spheres of communication. The sphere of everyday communication is characterized in relation to older concepts such as colloquial style, conversational style, colloquial Czech, and others. Emphasis is placed on the relationships between texts which are spoken (mainly dialogical ones) and those which are written (internet, social networks), which are currently increasing in number. – The sphere of institutional communication was previously associated above all with administrative style. Administrative texts havea close relationship to texts from the scholarly and advertising spheres; their form
is strikingly influenced by the asymmetry in the participant roles (especially in communication between institutions and citizens). – The sphere of expert communication is further differentiated into scholarly communication and practical specialized communication. Scholarly texts are characterized by the gradual transition from traditional forms of expression to Anglo-Saxon conventions. At the same time, the proportion of spoken characteristics and multimodality is increasing. – The sphere of media communication, spoken and written, is significantly influenced by the new affordances of the internet. This gains in importance due to the requirement of quick reactions to current events and the activity of the recipients, who obtain access to the media space (commentaries, discussions). An attempt to keep texts brief and transparent is being asserted, and colloquialization is utilized in their linguistic component. – For
texts from the sphere of advertising communication, informality, entertainment and multimodality are at the forefront; everything here is subordinate to the persuasive function, the attempt to gain and engage the interest of the addressees; politeness is integrated into manipulative strategies. – In the sphere of literary communication, observations are made regarding the extraordinary variation of expression, influenced, among others, by the relations between intratextual subjects: the use of various narrative means, the use of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd persons; the stylization of spoken language with various profiles (colloquialization); the intersection of literary
and electronic communication (blog novels, instapoetry and the like).

Daniela Slančová, Stanislava Spáčilová, Michal Bočák, Martina Bodnárová, Miroslava Gavurová, Jana Kičura Sokolová, Jana Klingová, Jozef Mergeš, Anna Timková Lazurová, Úvod do štúdia interaktívnej štylistiky I, II

JANA HOFFMANNOVÁ — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Waldemar Czachur, Artur Rejter, Marta Wójcicka (Red.), Lingwistyczne Badania Nad Dyskursem. Kompendium, Kraków: Universitas, 2024, 922 s.

EWA MALINOWSKA — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Jiří Homoláč, Petr Mareš, Jana Hoffmannová, Lucie Jílková, Jakub Kopecký, Kamila Mrázková, Míšení žánrů, stylů a diskurzů v internetové komunikaci

MONIKA KRZEMPEK — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Mirosława Siuciak, Komunikacja urzędowa na Górnym Śląsku w okresie XVII–XVIII wieku. Ujęcie dyskursologiczne, Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2024, 314 S.

EWA WOŹNIAK — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Danuta Lech-Kirstein, Anna Tabisz (red.), Onomastyka kulturowa

ARTUR ŻOŁĄDŹ — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Refleksja stylistyczna w Polsce w latach 1945–1959

KRZYSZTOF MAĆKOWIAK — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article discusses an important, though still insufficiently discussed, stage in the history of Polish stylistic thought. It spans the period from the revival of scientific life after World War II to the publication of Stylistyka polska (1959), a monograph co-authored by Halina Kurkowska and Stanisław Skorupka, which remains the first published synthesis of linguistic stylistics in Poland. The article aims, firstly, to describe the dynamics of stylistic debates between 1945 and 1959, and secondly, to outline the intellectual circles engaged in these polemics. The lively discussions about the status of the discipline at that time led to a kind of institutionalization
of research on style. Several scholarly teams emerged, notably in Warsaw, Kraków, Toruń, Łódź, and Lublin. The author also highlights the main directions of stylistic inquiry into 16th-century literature, including the growing interest in the functional
varieties of the Polish language.

Stylistyka polska drugiej połowy XX wieku i początków XXI wieku

MARIA WOJTAK — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The cognitive situation in Polish stylistics during the period under review changed fundamentally. From a linguistic sub-discipline integrating textual research, stylistics transformed into a trans-discipline, and in fact, almost blended with such disciplines as textology, genology, and discourse studies. A characteristic feature of stylistics is the disproportion in the scope of research covering its various divisions. Studies and dissertations in the field of theoretical stylistics dominate, especially those concerning the basic concepts of the discipline, above all, the concept of style. There is also a significant number of studies on the concept of the discipline itself and its relations with related and neighbouring disciplines. Moreover, studies in the field of descriptive stylistics stand out in termsof quantity, especially those concerning the stylistic varieties of the Polish language: first artistic style, followed by colloquial, scientific, official, and religious styles. This body of work (including syntheses) is further enriched by stylistic descriptions of speech genres and analyses conducted from a discursive perspective. Historical stylistics has received considerably less attention, although methodological discussions and variously configured analyses form a substantial collection of monographs, dissertations, and scholarly articles on the history of Polish language varieties, selected speech genres, or individual texts from past centuries. The largest research gaps are found in the areas of practical (applied) and comparative stylistics. Researchers interested in stylistic issues therefore face ambitious tasks, developing theoretical foundations for the discipline and preparing a research programme to reorient the directions of stylistic development.

Odmiana potoczna

JOLANTA NOCOŃ — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The colloquial style of Polish is not monolithic; rather, it is characterised by a complex communicative structure and a range of pragmatic conditions, which account for its internal differentiation. As one of the variants of the national language, colloquial
Polish is primarily spoken and marked by situationality, interactivity and visuality. Polish stylistics distinguishes between two conceptions of colloquialism rooted in different approaches to style: the functional-communicative and the anthropological-
-cultural. The former treats colloquial style as a set of functionally motivated stylistic and linguistic means, and the variety is considered to serve all domains of everyday life. The latter, by contrast, views colloquial style as a way of conceptualising
the world, which involves a specific linguistic worldview, experiential framing and a cultural attitude. The colloquial style is positioned as the stylistic core of the Polish language, from which other functional styles evolve. One of the major issues explored in the 21st century is a shift of colloquial forms into official communication, linked to the transformation of modern culture. Numerous extralinguistic and intralinguistic factors contributing to the shift have been identified. Reactions to the spread of colloquialism vary widely, but it is usually regarded either as a process of refreshing modernization of the language or a sign of its degradation, particularly in digital and media contexts.

Styl urzędowy

EWA MALINOWSKA — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Three variants of the official style can be distinguished: the official-legal, the office-documentary, and the rhetorical style. Researchers have so far concentrated primarilyon legal texts, which aim to create model legal situations and regulate the behaviour of a given community’s members. Fewer studies have addressed the office-documentary variety, which includes numerousspeech genres,ranging from simple acts (such as summonses, invitations, and reminders) to more complex forms (such as business letters, minutes, and reports). In these cases, the primary focus has been on textual correctness. Genres within the rhetorical sub-variety, especially those involving negotiation and mediation, remain largely undescribed from a linguistic perspective. Another important issue requiring further study is how the model of institutional communication is changing with the rise of electronic documents (e-government). Researchers of official Polish agree that its basic features are directive, impersonal, precise, and standardized. These characteristics are closely interrelated, mutuallyconditioned, and interpenetrating, making it difficult to establish a clear hierarchy
among them. Their intensity is gradable, being highest in official-legal genres and lower in clerical texts.

Styl naukowy

JOLANTA NOCOŃ — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The scientific variety of the Polish language is highly differentiated, which results from a broad definition of science as a sphere of human activity that is not only oriented towards the acquisition of new knowledge about the world, but also towards
application, educational, and popularisation activities related to a range of contextual factors. Throughout the 20th century, numerous attempts were made to systematise its sub-varieties. While stylistic research in the 20th and 21st centuries has focused
on specific problems and areas within the variety, there is a lack of synthetic and comprehensive studies. In the 20th century, scholars studied mainly stylistic features such as objectivity, logical coherence, precision, and abstractness, alongside their linguistic
exponents (e.g. terminology, syntax and text structure of scientific texts, and genre conventions). The changing relationship between science and culture in the 21st century, however, has enabled Polish researchers to approach the scientific variety in
a different way. A new type of “doing” science, departing from traditional approaches, has now been practiced in the humanities. The language of science has become less formalised, more figurative, and marked by rhetorisation and metaphorisation. Scholarly
interest in it stems also from the domination of communication by pop culture and the Internet, and such processes as the mediatisation of science, the erosion of clear boundaries between the scientific and other varieties of Polish, the rise of edutainment, and what may be termed democratization of scientific discourse.

Odmiana medialna

MARIA WOJTAK — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In Polish stylistics, the linguistic variety associated with the media, initially limited to the press, was described using the terms style, language, or discourse. The choice of terminology depended on the prevailing cognitive perspective within stylistic research.
Descriptions framed in terms of style (particularly journalistic style) tended to emphasise the connections between media language and other functional styles – artistic, colloquial, and official – thereby suggesting a lack of clearly distinctive features. Over time, however, Stanisław Gajda’s influential proposal to conceptualise media language as a stylistic melting pot gained widespread acceptance. The term media language (or language in the media) initially implied a focus on linguistic correctness in media discourse. Gradually, however, it came to encompass the study of communication practices specific to individual media platforms. This shift marked a transition toward a discursive research perspective. Strictly stylistic approaches may be either differential or descriptive. The melting pot metaphor highlights the chaotic blending of diverse stylistic elements. The descriptive approach, by contrast, situates style at a lower level of concretisation, linking it to the categories of discourse and genre. It acknowledges the antinomic nature of
stylistic features and the open-ended repertoire of linguistic markers, focusing not on the origin of linguistic means, but on their communicative function.

Styl religijny

MARZENA MAKUCHOWSKA — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article presents the main directions and achievements of Polish linguistic research on religious style from 1970 to 2024. The author outlines the institutional background of this research including academic centres, conferences, publishing series, journals,
and the Religious Language Team at the Polish Academy of Sciences and then lists the various terms used to define the subject of study.
In describing the methodological perspectives, the article highlights the significance of the shift from structuralism to an anthropological-semiotic conception of style. This shift enabled the inclusion of extra-linguistic features reflected in the
language of texts as stylistic properties. The next section discusses the main issues addressed by researchers: the functions of religious style; its genres (prayers, hymns, sermons, etc.); the nature of its various substyles (including liturgical, preaching, catechetical, mystical, theological, biblical, media, and artistic); religious lexis; linguistic images of selected elements of the sacred world and religious concepts; axiological and emotional characterisation of texts; the personal styles of religious figures (such
as preachers, including John Paul II, and poets); the transformation of religious style; and general characteristics of the style.
The review reveals strong scholarly interest in religious style in Poland, with particular attention given to its contemporary state, though its historical development has also been explored. The genres through which this style is expressed, especially
liturgical genres, have been thoroughly analysed, primarily due to the work of Maria Wojtak. As for the features of religious style, research shows that a certain traditional and characteristic set of features is associated with genres performed during liturgy, whereas outside the liturgy, religious style tends to approach contemporary colloquial language.

Style literatury

BOŻENA WITOSZ — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The stylistics of the literature of the last half-century is methodologically and thematically diverse. The conception of literary style has changed; stylistic features are now treated as culturally shaped, extending beyond the purely linguistic means. In describing the styles of historical literary periods and genres, scholars increasingly emphasize the historical, social, and cultural contexts in which texts were created. Polish stylistics has comprehensively examined both the past epochs (e.g. the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque) and post-1945 literature. The stylistic view of an artistic text is prospective in nature and depends on methodological aproaches, including text theory, pragmatics, communication theory, semantics, discursology, and cognitive science. It also reflects civilisational changes, particularly literature’s associations with new media, the cultural context, and the interplay between stylistics and other fields in the humanities. Unsurprisingly, contemporary linguists integrate different dimensions of literary works such as linguistic structure, semantic content, cognitive layer, worldview and axiological stance, highlighting the communicative aspect of the works and their intertextual, intersemiotic, and intermedial qualities.

Stylistyka

O idei Słownika biograficznego stylistyki slawistycznej

František Miko, jeho autentická funkčná štylistika a impulzy pre súčasnú štylistiku

Hoffmannová Jana

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