DOŚWIADCZENIE PRZESTRZENI W PAMIĘCI O HOLOCAUŚCIE

This paper analyzes different experiences of space by which memory of Holocaust could be passed on. The Memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin gives visitors the feeling of insecurity and overwhelms them with monumentality. For that reason it is criticized as reflecting the other side of German memory: The Third Reich’s megalomania and dream about power. The Hamburger memorial against fascism designed in 1986 by conceptual artists Jochen and Esther Gerz offers quite an opposite experience of space. A twelve-meter-high pillar has been established for visitors to sign on it. Once the area was covered by signature it was lowered into the ground till it completely disappeared. The intention of the artists was to put memory not into the monument but into people. Pozdrowienia z Alej Jerozolimskich (Greetings from the Jerusalem Avenue, 2002) by Joanna Rajkowska – a fifteen-meter tall artificial palm tree installed in the centre of Warsaw – is an attempt to infuse with Israel's scenery a Warsaw's street whose name and history sends the observer to the history of the Jews in Poland. In another work called Dotleniacz (Oxygenator, 2007) Rajkowska created an artificial lake with oxygen concentrators, gold fish, flowers and banks. Again, the installation was placed in a very meaningful place – Grzybowski Square – which is strongly connected with Jewish life in Poland as well as Polish anti-Semitism. The synagogue in Poznan was transformed during the Nazi occupation into a swimming pool which it has remained until the present day. This fact ( just like the building) seems to be invisible for most citizens. In 2003 Rafał Jakubowicz changed the fact by projecting a Hebrew inscription הייחש-תכירב (swimming pool) on the façade of the former synagogue. In Berek (The Game of Tag, 1999) by Artur Żmijewski a group of naked men and women of various age play tag. The artist filmed them in two rooms: in a symbolically neutral space and in a gas chamber of a former Nazi death camp. The film is an attempt at breaking the spell of this horrifying and paralysing space.

Zintegrowane podejście dyskursywne do rozwijania sprawności mownych; przedstawienie celów i założeń projektu badawczego

Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie projektu o charakterze badawczo-wdrożeniowym dotyczącego doskonalenia obcojęzycznych kompetencji mownych (wypowiadanie się i rozumienie wypowiedzi ustnych) na poziomie zaawansowanym i przygotowywanym w Instytucie Filologii Romańskiej UAM. Niniejszy projekt zakłada, że istnieją spore możliwości podniesienia skuteczności i ekonomii kształcenia kompetencji mownych, poprzez zintegrowane podejście do celów kształcenia, a także poprzez wykorzystanie narzędzi internetowych. Podejście to zasadza się na integracji trzech zakresów kształcenia, a mianowicie: (1) doskonalenia umiejętności interakcyjnych w zakresie komunikacji półpublicznej, (2) rozwoju kompetencji medialnej oraz (3) rozwoju wiedzy dot. aktualnej, szeroko pojmowanej problematyki społeczno-kulturowej i krytycznego, zobiektywizowanego myślenia w stosunku do prezentowanych ujęć i naświetleń tej problematyki. W niniejszym omówieniu główny nacisk położony zostanie na uargumentowanie zasadności postulowanego zintegrowanego podejścia dyskursywnego, a także na wykazanie wartości dydaktycznej wybranych audycji medialnych. Zaprezentowane zostaną również główne kierunki pracy dydaktycznej oraz wyniki badania pilotażowego.

Angewandte Literaturwissenschaft – Überlegungen zu Perspektiven einer Germanistik der Zukunft

Recently there is a big discussion about the sense and nonsense of what we called the former philology, especially in the field of German studies. The author tries to focus his consideration of German literature on the importance of studying German literature in future and what this subject can get a special use for certain sustainability and facilities. He points out some ways in which we can deal with that in future as students, but as teachers too.

Le développement de la compétence argumentative et l'initiation au discours académique

The aim of the paper is to present the specificity of oral argumentative competence in a foreign language and to propose a tentative model of task-based learning of argumentative discourse. It is assumed in the paper that the communicative situation tasks proposed during classes of French as a foreign language in the French Philology Department should contribute to the academic discourse learning. In the paper we present an analysis of two fragments of argumentative situations; the first one concerns the so-called everyday argumentative situation and another one illustrates an argumentative orientation of academic discourse.

La traduction en polonais des textes d'ancien français: une compétence spécifique

This paper is relating a practical experience of teaching Romance philology students the translation from ancient French into Polish. The main scope is a restitution of an ancient text respecting not only the equivalence at the Iexical and syntactical level, but also the discourse structures, such as the linear sequence of events and events related from different points of view: some examples of solving particular problems are discussed. The whole procedure resembles that of translating from Latin, rather than a translation from one modern language to another.

Zastosowanie podcastów w rozwijaniu sprawności słuchania ze zrozumieniem w języku obcym na przykładzie studentów germanistyki i lingwistyki stosowanej w Polsce

Wydział Neofilologii

O interdyscyplinarności komparatystyki

For the past fifty years, the interest in issues beyond pure philology has been a watchword in comparative literary studies. Comparative studies, which by default employ a variety of methods, run the major risk – as the experience of American comparative literature shows – of descending into dangerous ‘everythingism’ or losing its identity. However, it performs well when literature remains one of the segments of comparison. In such instances, it proves efficacious in exploring the ‘correspondences of arts’, the problems of identity and multiculturalism as well as contributes to the research into the transfer of ideas. Hence, it delves into phenomena which exist on the borderlines of literature, fine arts and other fields of humanities, employing strategies of interpretation which are typical for each of those fields. This means that in the process there emerges a “borderline methodology”, whose distinctive feature is heterogeneity of conducting research. This, in turn, requires the scholar to be both ingenious and creative while selecting topics as well as to possess competence in literary studies and the related field.