Przeobrażenia demograficzne z jednej strony, a z drugiej realizacja w praktyce koncepcji zdrowego starzenia się, w znacznym stopniu kształtują rynek pracy i popyt na przedstawicieli określonych zawodów. Dotyczy to nie tylko zawodów świadczących usługi medyczne i opiekuńcze, ale też związanych ze świadczeniem usług dotyczących rekreacji i aktywności osób starszych. Popyt na takie zawody jest już teraz generowany m.in. poprzez konieczność realizacji założeń polityki senioralnej rządu, tj. wydłu...

This article presents a lexical analysis of vocabulary related to plants used in the Polish-Belarusian borderland. Source material comes from A Dictionary of the Local Dialect of the Bielsk Podlaski Region (Słownik gwary bielsko-podlaszskiej / Slovnik hovu͡оrki b’el’sko-pudl’ashskuĭ) by Mikołaj Wróblewski. The method of semantic fields applied in the study made it possible to identify the following groups: (1) trees and shrubs (јалу͡овец’, кл’у́ква, лішчы́на); (2) grasses, herbs and flowering...

Широкое употребление отчеств (патронимов) в антропонимических формулах православных жителей Подляшья во второй половине XIX — начале XX в. обусловлено административной принадлежностью этого региона к Российской империи, а впоследствии — подчинением русской системе именования. В настоящей статье обсуждаются патронимы, засвидетельствованные в метрических записях конца XIX в. в приходе в Райске. Рассмотрение онимов производится с учетом их словообразовательных, фонетических и графических особенн...

The subject of this article is the contemporary fashion in name-giving analyzed in the linguistic and cultural context. Today, name-giving preferences are not limited to the use of names of a single certain origin. Contemporary name-giving fashion is evolving in multiple ways. Today, traditional Christian first names, first names Slavonic in origin, as well as modern names borrowed from onymic systems of other nations are popular in Poland. Anthroponyms of Christian origin enjoy the greatest ...

This paper deals with Orthodox baptismal names different from the first names given to thechild at the Registry Office. Analysis of source material demonstrated that the number of baptismalnames different from those given at the Registry Office constitutes a significant percentage (26.3%) of anthroponyms in the contemporary Orthodox name-giving trend. The choice of baptismal names was motivated by various reasons, but the most popular were names phoneticallysimilar to the names used in the se...

This paper concerns 18th century surnames of Bielsk Podlaski people formed based on first names. Analysis of reference materials has demonstrated that the majority of surnames of people living in Bielsk Podlaski in the 18th century formed based on first names are anthroponyms of Eastern-Slavonic origin (Antychowicz, Chilkiewicz, Dmitrowicz, Korniluk, Naucik etc.). Surnames originating from Polish first names account for a minor percentage of all analyzed anthroponyms (Maciejuk, Michalewicz, P...

The following paper discusses the anthroponymy of Białystok region in the late 19th and early 20th century with the focus on patronyms (otchestva) excerpted from the church registers of the Orthodox parish in Łapy dated 1898‑1915. It was established that the majority of the patronyms were derived from the Orthodox (Church‑Slavonic) variants of proper names (e.g., Dionisiyev, Emilіanova), although the study confirms the presence of the cases where non‑canonical variants of baptismal names were...

The paper presents a linguistic characteristic of patronyms contained in parish registers of the Orthodox parish in Białowieża in the years 1891–1895 and 1906–1910. The forms of paternal names are discussed, as well as their variability resulting from the use, as motivating bases, of various phonetic-morphological variants of first names. The onomastic material reveals that in addition to the canonical names, their literary ("official secular") and less frequent colloquial variants were used ...

The subject of the study is the specificity and various manifestations of emotionality in the works of Olga Tokarczuk. The topic is relevant by defolt, as emotions are a fundamental part of the human psyche, which is a primary focus in the writer‘s artistic „explorations”. The aim of the research is to highlight the role and functions of the characters’ emotions, to trace the evolution/involution of these emotions, as well as the emotional amplitude determined by gender. The study also encom...

The article aims to discuss the norms, practices and some reflection on such an element of funeral and memorial rituals and memorial tradition as the compilation of a “common people’s” cemetery inscription. The main subject of the study is the role of emotional-sensual and evaluative components in the formation of the “statement” of the epitaph and the discourse associated with it. In connection with the subject of the study, which is conducted using the methods of case study and hermeneutic-...

This paper attempts to capture the linguistic representations of sadness, anger and depression in the speech of a person with aphasia as the creator of an autobiographical narrative form, which I call aphasiography. The material for analysis (metaphors, phrases, vocabulary) was taken from Karolina Wiktor’s aphasiography Volga through Afazja and from interviews given by the author. The aim of the article is to present the specificity of the linguistic expression of sadness, anger and depressio...

The aim of the study is to establish the probable etymology of the surnames of the first inhabitants of Lewkowo Nowe village, who settled in this place at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and during the interwar period. The object of analysis is exclusively the surnamesthat are currently no longer recorded in the studied village. The surnames that are continuously used in Lewkowo Nowe since it was founded until the present as well as the surnames of the population who settled in the vi...

The aim of this article is to characterise the Slavonic first names recorded in the anthroponymy of the Polish -Belarusian borderland in the 16th and 17th centuries. The text focuses on the presentation of the names which occurred in their primary function. The analysis emphasises above all their word -forming aspect. The source base is the material that was collected and elaborated in the two -volume Słownik historycznych nazw osobowych Białostocczyzny (authors: Z. Abramowicz, L. Citko and L...

This article is the first part of a planned series of articles devoted to the study of Belarusian sociolinguistic terminology of the 1890s–1920s, the National Revival period. The aim of these articles is to demonstrate that Belarusian philologists, writers, publicists and politicians had already created numerous sociolinguistically relevant terms in their publications. The material for this study comes from early Belarusian grammar books and dictionaries, but also from collections of works of...

The object of research of the present article is the poetics of melancholy in the context of Bulgarian symbolist-secessionist literature from the beginning of the 20th century, as an insufficiently studied territory of literary life. The topic has been relevant since the beginning of the 21st century in Bulgarian scientific circles, as evidenced by the research of B. Penchev, N. Dimitrov, B. Dakova, etc., related to the clarification of the essence of secession in Bulgaria. The present articl...