The author of the article presents the current state of discourse studies conducted by Polish language scholars. The starting point is an assumption whereby the conceptualisation of the discourse category and the nature of its analyses have been influenced mainly by two research traditions: text linguistics and functional stylistics as well as concepts of text and style developed by them. The pragmatic definition of a unit of text and the anthropological-cultural definition of style, both deeply rooted in Polish linguistics, have determined a specific — at least in some respects — approach to the category of discourse. The author notices this specificity in the conceptualisation of discourse (considering this category to be a unit from the idealisation plan, modelling specific interactions), in the research tradition (rooting discourse studies in the structuralist paradigm of functional stylistics), in the strong link to the methodology of contemporary, communication-oriented stylistics, the close association with the Polish concept of ethnocognitive linguistics, references to the conclusions of Polish linguistic genre studies, relations with sociolinguistics and, more broadly, public communication studies, finally — in references to contemporary schools and branches of international discourse studies. These links make it possible to carry out a multi-aspect review of discourse and include the perspective of Polish language studies in research in other disciplines of the humanities.
This article explores the linguistic worldview of a Ukrainian poet – postmodernist Yuriy Andrukhovytch – realized through the concept of “Christian sacred symbols” analyzed from the perspective of anthropological and cognitive aspects of lingual and cultural studies. It defines the essence and the ways of implementing the concept in the spatio-temporal continuum of poetry collection “India” as well as highlights the role of man in the poet’s imaginary world through the archetypes of the world culture and decodes symbolic meaning of cultural context of the author’s works. Contrary to a generally accepted view that the earth is round, spatial reality for the author turns out to be a planet which resembles a cake, a fl at surface, a desert, a kingdom and a bridge. The sky is seven crystal hemispheres, out lining the heavenly space with stars and planets fixed at each level. The space is represented by such geographical notions as East Asia, India, China, the river Nile. The author of the article supposes that India becomes for the writer the embodiment of our civilization at all times of mankind, another way to present man in the space of eternity, and a kind of life philosophy. The synthesis of pagan, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim and Christian ideas about man’s place in the world and his moral peace, happiness and overall love is represented by such symbols as angels, harpes, gehennr hell hrifony, dragons, percale books, lilies, honey, pythons, fl ags, birds, reptiles, saints, timpani, newts, tulips, furies, devils, Yuri’s sword, Yasmin and others.
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