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• Title:
  Magical Word as an Action. A Few Thoughts about Bronisław Malinowski’s Concepts
• Creator:
  Rakoczy, Marta
• Description:
  This article concerns Bronisław Malinowski’s ethnographical theory  of magical word. His theory was a revolutionary one for two reasons (1)  he claimed that magical word is not an instrument of understanding of „primitive mentality” (2) he argued that analysis of magical word  demanded abandoning  of  textual  bias  which  entailed  our  seeing  linguistic  genres  as semantically autonomous texts. Malinowski was not so interested in the question of literacy. He  remarked, though,  that  writing  determinated  our  linguistic  reflection  and  that  magical word, as another oral linguistic genres, demanded a radical rejection of textual conceptions of  meaning,  language and folklore.  Although  Malinowski’s  methodological  stipulations were not always consistent and his rejection of textual bias was fairly half, his abandonment of the conception of „magical world view” which is  a foundation for uses of magic is still up-to-date. 
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2013.01.01
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  Polish;
  pol
• Source:
  Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne; No. 4 (2013): Magiczna moc słów w językach, literaturach oraz kulturach słowiańskich; 151–163;
  Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne; Nr 4 (2013): Magiczna moc słów w językach, literaturach oraz kulturach słowiańskich; 151–163;
  2450-2731;
  2084-3011
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pss/article/view/1296/1191
• Subject:
  magical word;
  literacy;
  textual bias;
  textualisation;
  „magical world view”
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pss/article/view/1296
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  other