Karol Janicki
Biographic Data
| ID | 1537655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karol Janicki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karol |
| FAMILY NAME | Janicki |
| SIGNATURE | JANICKI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What is conflict? What is aggression? Are these challenging questions
This paper takes up the question of definitions in general and definitions as related to research on language and conflict in particular. I anchor my discussion in the proceedings of the panel ‘Researching and Understanding the Language of Aggression and Conflict’ held at the recent IPrA conference (Antwerp, July 2015). However, I also refer to a selection of articles in the Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict (JLAC) and books on language…
Connecting the linguist to industry and public institutions
This study aimed at disclosing language‐related problems lay people may have in a selection of professional contexts. The study also measured the level of concern over these problems and inquired about solutions to them. Eleven N orwegian companies/institutions participated in the study. This study has used ‘structured interview’ as the method. Interviews with two representatives of the management and two lower level employees of the same company…
Communication and understanding
This article consists of two sections: in the first one, I discuss one of the most prevalent lay myths in the Western world with respect to communication and understanding, namely, the view that meaning resides in words and that it is transmitted from one language user to another in a conduit, as it were. In the second section, I refer to my own research illustrating the prevalence of the myth in question in a variety of domains, for instance, in…
Lay people's language problems
This paper takes up the question of what lay language users conceive of as language‐related problems. A total of 1,076 subjects were recruited for the study. The data were collected from native speakers of English (American and Canadian), Norwegian, Lithuanian, Polish, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish (Chilean), German, Cantonese, and Mandarin. The subjects were asked questions intended to disclose what language‐related problems they thought the…
A hindrance to communication
This paper gives a brief theoretical background to and reports on three empirical studies carried out within the theoretical framework of folk linguistics, using questionnaire data. The paper is concerned with the layperson’s reactions to the use of difficult and incomprehensible language. In study 1, subjects from Norway, Poland, Germany, and the USA were asked to indicate which professional groups exhibit the use of difficult language. They wer…
The function of the Standard variety
Article The function of the Standard variety: a contrastive study of Norwegian and Polish was published on January 1, 1995 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1995, issue 115)
Applying linguistics for peace education
This paper is in three sections. The first one — conceptual essentialism—discusses the philosophical question of essentialism and offers a brief criticism of it. Essentialism is understood here as involving the view that meaning resides in words rather than having it assigned to them by human beings (as is the case with non‐essentialism). The second section — essentialism and politics — attempts to show how essentialism leads to, among other thin…
A rebuttal of essentialist sociolinguistics
The function of the Standard variety
Article The function of the Standard variety: a contrastive study of Norwegian and Polish was published on January 1, 1995 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1995, issue 115)
Lay people's language problems
This paper takes up the question of what lay language users conceive of as language‐related problems. A total of 1,076 subjects were recruited for the study. The data were collected from native speakers of English (American and Canadian), Norwegian, Lithuanian, Polish, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish (Chilean), German, Cantonese, and Mandarin. The subjects were asked questions intended to disclose what language‐related problems they thought the…
A rebuttal of essentialist sociolinguistics
Applying linguistics for peace education
This paper is in three sections. The first one — conceptual essentialism—discusses the philosophical question of essentialism and offers a brief criticism of it. Essentialism is understood here as involving the view that meaning resides in words rather than having it assigned to them by human beings (as is the case with non‐essentialism). The second section — essentialism and politics — attempts to show how essentialism leads to, among other thin…
The function of the Standard variety
Article The function of the Standard variety: a contrastive study of Norwegian and Polish was published on January 1, 1995 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1995, issue 115)
A hindrance to communication
This paper gives a brief theoretical background to and reports on three empirical studies carried out within the theoretical framework of folk linguistics, using questionnaire data. The paper is concerned with the layperson’s reactions to the use of difficult and incomprehensible language. In study 1, subjects from Norway, Poland, Germany, and the USA were asked to indicate which professional groups exhibit the use of difficult language. They wer…
Lay people's language problems
This paper takes up the question of what lay language users conceive of as language‐related problems. A total of 1,076 subjects were recruited for the study. The data were collected from native speakers of English (American and Canadian), Norwegian, Lithuanian, Polish, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish (Chilean), German, Cantonese, and Mandarin. The subjects were asked questions intended to disclose what language‐related problems they thought the…
Communication and understanding
This article consists of two sections: in the first one, I discuss one of the most prevalent lay myths in the Western world with respect to communication and understanding, namely, the view that meaning resides in words and that it is transmitted from one language user to another in a conduit, as it were. In the second section, I refer to my own research illustrating the prevalence of the myth in question in a variety of domains, for instance, in…
Connecting the linguist to industry and public institutions
This study aimed at disclosing language‐related problems lay people may have in a selection of professional contexts. The study also measured the level of concern over these problems and inquired about solutions to them. Eleven N orwegian companies/institutions participated in the study. This study has used ‘structured interview’ as the method. Interviews with two representatives of the management and two lower level employees of the same company…
What is conflict? What is aggression? Are these challenging questions
This paper takes up the question of definitions in general and definitions as related to research on language and conflict in particular. I anchor my discussion in the proceedings of the panel ‘Researching and Understanding the Language of Aggression and Conflict’ held at the recent IPrA conference (Antwerp, July 2015). However, I also refer to a selection of articles in the Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict (JLAC) and books on language…
Linguistics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works)