TY - JOUR AU - Bartmiński, Jerzy AU - Niebrzegowska-Bartmińska, Stanisława PY - 2021/11/18 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Krystyny Pisarkowej odkrywanie Malinowskiego JF - LingVaria JA - LingVaria VL - 16 IS - 2(32) SE - Przypomnienia DO - 10.12797/LV.16.2021.32.17 UR - https://journals.akademicka.pl/lv/article/view/3928 SP - 216-228 AB - <p><strong>Krystyna Pisarkowa’s Discovering of Malinowski</strong></p><p>The article is concerned with the two-volume publication<em> Językoznawstwo Bronisława Malinowskiego</em> <em>[Bronisław Malinowski’s Linguistics</em>], edited by Krystyna Pisarek. Its first volume contains the editor’s thorough analysis of the linguistic achievements of this Polish-born British anthropologist, while the second volume includes translations of Malinowski’s works and a dictionary of the Kiriwina language. The linguistic importance of Malinowski’s works had been underestimated: his articles “Classificatory Particles in the Language of Kiriwina” (1920) and “The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages” (1923) were not included in the thirteen-volume collection of his writings (<em>Dzieła</em> [<em>Works</em>]). Pisarkowa, in turn, does recognize Malinowski’s contribution to linguistics and considers the following to be his unique achievements: (1) the discovery of the phatic function of speech (adopted by Roman Jakobson in his classification of language functions); (2) an explicit formulation of the principle of contextualism and the pragmatic aspect of word meaning; and (3) a precise description of the Kiriwina system of classificatory particles.</p> ER -