"Kultura języka", a term which does not have an English equivalent, but corresponds roughly to "cultivated usage", consists in exercising conscious influence on the language and its development, as well as in making ...

For a long time newspaper texts have almost universally been considered to be extremely careless and full of mistakes. Texts from the radio and from television are thought to be equally bad, although such journalistic texts ...

The author points out that the present syllabus fot the teaching of Polish underestimates the importance of, and, consequently, does not »rant proper place to, various aspects of language and linguistics. It results from ...

Assuming that linguistic phenomena common in the educated speech (speech of the intelligentsia) cannot be treated as mistakes, the author has given a critical survey of selected phenomena in phonetics, inflection, ...