Słowo magiczne jako działanie – o kilku walorach koncepcji Bronisława Malinowskiego
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2013
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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Magical Word as an Action. A Few Thoughts about Bronisław Malinowski’s Concepts
Abstract
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.
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magical word, literacy, textual bias, textualisation, „magical world view”
Citation
Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2013, nr 4, s.151–163
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978-83-232-2525-6