Maria Adamczyk
Biographic Data
| ID | 289905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Adamczyk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Adamczyk |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMCZYK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jagiellonian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1436-0659 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Do hedges always hedge: On non-canonical multifunctionality of jakby in polish
One of the canonical uses of jakby in Polish is that of the Lakoffian hedge, which modifies the propositional content of an utterance by pointing to its fuzziness, inexactitude or approximation. In conversational speech the word is frequently put to excessive use, which appears to significantly deviate from the prescribed one, and as such deserves closer attention. The aim of the present study, which makes use of corpus linguistics tools to colle…
Functional profile of the lexeme ot in contemporary Polish: A cross-linguistic examination
Forum for the Ugly People - Study of an Imagined Community
This paper asks how sickness, aesthetics and politics intervene when it comes to labelling oneself ugly. My study of an online community named 'Forum for the Ugly People' on the biggest Internet portal in Poland, Gazeta Wyborcza ( www.gazeta.pl ) raises two key questions. What are the self-ascribing criteria for being ugly? Is ugliness treated as a disease, or as a personal fault of the stigma bearer? Treating ugliness as Douglasian 'dirt' - matt…
Scared to death or scared to love? Terror management theory and close relationships seeking
To cope with paralyzing terror awakened by thoughts of their own death people usually use two defense mechanisms: cultural worldview and self-esteem. Recent studies suggest that also close relationships may function as a death anxiety buffer. The present research explores this phenomenon in an experimental paradigm. One hundred sixteen undergraduates completed a self-esteem scale, attachment scale, and a scale tapping ideal mate characteristics. …
Forum for the Ugly People - Study of an Imagined Community
This paper asks how sickness, aesthetics and politics intervene when it comes to labelling oneself ugly. My study of an online community named 'Forum for the Ugly People' on the biggest Internet portal in Poland, Gazeta Wyborcza ( www.gazeta.pl ) raises two key questions. What are the self-ascribing criteria for being ugly? Is ugliness treated as a disease, or as a personal fault of the stigma bearer? Treating ugliness as Douglasian 'dirt' - matt…
Scared to death or scared to love? Terror management theory and close relationships seeking
To cope with paralyzing terror awakened by thoughts of their own death people usually use two defense mechanisms: cultural worldview and self-esteem. Recent studies suggest that also close relationships may function as a death anxiety buffer. The present research explores this phenomenon in an experimental paradigm. One hundred sixteen undergraduates completed a self-esteem scale, attachment scale, and a scale tapping ideal mate characteristics. …
Forum for the Ugly People - Study of an Imagined Community
This paper asks how sickness, aesthetics and politics intervene when it comes to labelling oneself ugly. My study of an online community named 'Forum for the Ugly People' on the biggest Internet portal in Poland, Gazeta Wyborcza ( www.gazeta.pl ) raises two key questions. What are the self-ascribing criteria for being ugly? Is ugliness treated as a disease, or as a personal fault of the stigma bearer? Treating ugliness as Douglasian 'dirt' - matt…
Do hedges always hedge: On non-canonical multifunctionality of jakby in polish
One of the canonical uses of jakby in Polish is that of the Lakoffian hedge, which modifies the propositional content of an utterance by pointing to its fuzziness, inexactitude or approximation. In conversational speech the word is frequently put to excessive use, which appears to significantly deviate from the prescribed one, and as such deserves closer attention. The aim of the present study, which makes use of corpus linguistics tools to colle…
Functional profile of the lexeme ot in contemporary Polish: A cross-linguistic examination
Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)