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Przyszłość w odpamiętywaniu przeszłości – aktualizacje przyszłości w opowieściach świadków historii (na materiale Archiwum Historii Mówionej)

BERNADETTA CIESEK-ŚLIZOWSKA , KATARZYNA SUJKOWSKA , WIOLETTA WILCZEK

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The article presents ways in which the future is represented in the recollections of eyewitnesses to the W arsaw U prising. T he analytical material comprises a collection of over 4,000 interviews, accessible to a wide audience through the searchable Oral History A rchive website. For the purpose of the research, a corpus comprising 28,356,577 tokens (running words) was created in collaboration with the Polish branch of the European Research Infrastructure CLARIN and tools such as the online KonText search engine were used. T he study employed both quantitative (corpus based) and qualitative methods, with the latter inspired by discourse techniques and deeply rooted in the social sciences. T he analysis of this extensive data set allowed the authors to reconstruct the perception of the future during the challenging times of coercion and threat characteristic of wartime, especially during the W arsaw U prising. T hree key aspects of how the future is reflected in the past were identified, aligning closely with sociological theories about future-oriented thinking. T he first aspect pertains to the distant future, which appears in recollections where the moment of reminiscence is set before the war, and to the short-term future, where wartime events serve as a point of reference. The second aspect is related to the sphere of human life in the context of prospective thinking, including both the future of social life and the future of private life, each marked by a forward-looking orientation. The third case includes expressions of a lack of future, equated with a sense of hopelessness and uncertainty. T his outlook, focused on the here and now, views the future as precarious and threatening.

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CIESEK-ŚLIZOWSKA, B., SUJKOWSKA, K., & WILCZEK, W. (2025). Przyszłość w odpamiętywaniu przeszłości – aktualizacje przyszłości w opowieściach świadków historii (na materiale Archiwum Historii Mówionej). Stylistyka, 34, 303–325. https://doi.org/10.25167/Stylistyka34.2024.15

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