Published: 2024-04-08

The Joy of Crossing the Dark Line of Script

Tomasz Kamusella Logo ORCID
Section: Articles and Studies
https://doi.org/10.31261/FLPI.2024.07.10

Abstract

The standard image of research as toil, method and the principle of objectivity appears sterile, mechanistic and devoid of human agency. But research to happen requires scholars, who are passionate about their subjects of investigation. ‘Doing research’ brings them physical pleasure, which pushes scholars beyond the formal boundaries set in a contract with a university or a grant-making institution. Pecuniary compensation is secondary and rarely adequate for compensating the effort and time expanded. The joy of discovery is the ultimate payback. The first stepping stone to research and then to other scriptaly differentiated fields of enquiry leads through the acquisition of the skill of reading (and often writing). Initially, it comes in the writing system of a person’s first language, but then other scripts tend to follow. This feat of mastering a script always frustrates before achieved, but eventually brings the joy of opening the door to another human world.

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Kamusella, T. (2024). The Joy of Crossing the Dark Line of Script. Fabrica Litterarum Polono-Italica, (1(7), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.31261/FLPI.2024.07.10

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No. 1(7) (2024)
Published: 2024-06-03


eISSN: 2658-185X
Ikona DOI 10.31261/FLPI

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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