Published: 2021-12-21

Bo [because] vs. ponieważ [because] and other conjunctions in spoken and written language A page from the history of misconceptions

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Abstract

The starting point of the article is the normative belief that some conjunctions, such as because (bo) and but (ale), are typical of speech and should be used in it, and others, such as because (ponieważ) and yet (lecz), are appropriate for written works. They were tested on the material of randomly selected short texts from philosophy, linguistics, literary studies, psychology, journalism, literary criticism and popular science texts about language. The research procedure had several stages: 1) beliefs, 2) doubts, different points of view, 3) material assembly, 4) study, 5) results, 6) interpretation, 7) conclusions. The author believes that this scheme is suitable for use in Polish lessons. The initial idea turned out to be wrong: conjunctions because (bo) and but (ale) occur in the reviewed texts much more often than because (ponieważ) and yet (lecz).

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Bakuła, K. (2021). Bo [because] vs. ponieważ [because] and other conjunctions in spoken and written language A page from the history of misconceptions. Z Teorii I Praktyki Dydaktycznej Języka Polskiego, 30, 149–167. https://doi.org/10.31261/TPDJP.2021.30.10

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Vol. 30 (2021)
Published: 2021-12-30


ISSN: 0208-5011
eISSN: 2353-9577
Ikona DOI 10.31261/TPDJP

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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