Our study deals with the hydronyms in the western region of Slovakia. These proper names petrify some very interesting elements of German lexicon, specifically the language of Bavarian settlers in the 12th to the 15th ...

The paper draws attention to an attempt to clarify a long-lasting tradition of mining and metallurgy in the Spis region. Taking into account the arrival of German miners and metallurgists and the background of a historical ...

Refering to the oldest hydronymia from Southwestern Slovakia which is the oldest Slavic state, we provide the examples of the old Slavic lexical layer fund. These appellative vocabulary is undifferentiated (or only ...

The patronymic toponyms ending in -ice are the most productive in the Polish regions of Małopolska (Little Poland), Śląsk (Silesia) and Wielkopolska (Great Poland). These formations are relatively infrequent in the other ...

The place names, whatever they refer to, the nature, the history, the settlement size of the referent, often do not stop to designate a single entity, but travel through time and space and that space can have a dual ...

This article is an overview of the various concepts of writing that lead to the conclusion that rewriting is devoid of creative aspects because it is an act of writing “the same words”. These concepts primarily treat writing ...

This article is an attempt at analyzing and interpreting Edward Redlinski’s Nikiformy by means of the categories of speech genres and (literate) linguistic activity in the social sphere. It interprets the role of the ...

This article aims to analyze the “citation from reality” as a vehicle for expressing a satirical intention. The author compares “citation from reality” to parody, another rewriting strategy, and discovers that neither of ...