Wizerunek/postrzeganie partii politycznej (PPP) należy do konstruktów, których zawartość oczekuje na taksonomię naukową. Brak konsensu wśród badaczy co do uniwersalnych kulturowo wymiarów PPP i narzędzi do ich pomiaru uniemożliwia systematyczną kumulację wiedzy na temat determinantów PPP i jego wpływu na decyzje wyborcze. Celem prezentowanych badań leksykalnych jest weryfikacja pięcioczynnikowej struktury PPP i walidacja skal do jego pomiaru. Artykuł przedstawia wyniki sześciu badań przeprowadzonych na polskich wyborcach w latach 2011–2019. Wyniki wskazują na wysoką stabilność pięcioczynnikowej struktury PPP na poziomie różnic indywidualnych (wyborcy) w wymiarach osobowościowych i pozaosobowościowych. Opracowane narzędzie pomiaru PPP cechują satysfakcjonujące wskaźniki psychometryczne oraz wysoka moc wyjaśniająca preferencji politycznych wyborców. Omówiono ograniczenia wynikające z różnych możliwych poziomów analizy struktury wizerunku partii na poziomie wyborcy versus partie.
The present study is the first attempt at examining the perception and evaluation of 10 internationally known political and religious leaders’ English pronunciation. 40 Polish students’ assessed their speech samples in terms of the degree of foreign accentedness, comprehensibility and acceptability. We examine whether the following factors affect the assessors’ judgements: their personal attitude to the speakers, the students’ level of English proficiency and the genetic proximity between between the speakers’ and the listeners’ L1s combined with the raters’ familiarity with foreign accents of English. It is demonstrated that the listeners’ attitude to the speakers has no impact on the ratings of the samples’ comprehensibility and accentedness, but plays an important role in their evaluations of acceptability. The participants’ level of English proficiency is crucial for their assessment of comprehensibility, but not accentedness and acceptability. Finally, the genetic proximity between the involved languages and the listeners’ familiarity with varieties of foreign-accented English are shown to be relevant for all the presented accent jugdements.
The distinction between primary and secondary qualities, most famously outlined by Galileo, and subsequently supported, inter alia, by Descartes and by Locke, has widely been considered one of the crucial factors in the development of modern idealism. In its contemporary form, the distinction identifies some of the perceived properties as mental phenomena due to their content and structural dependence on the mind. However, this account of the primary/secondary distinction is largely different from its original version developed by the above-mentioned philosophers, within whose work the mental being of the perceived qualities was demonstrated objectively, from the conceptually-derived nature of matter, and not subjectively, by referring to the mind’s participation in the cognitive process. It was only at the next stage of the early modern subjectivisation of sense perception, best exemplified by such philosophers as Arnold Geulincx and Richard Burthogge, that the creative role played by the mind in sensation and, consequently, the mind-dependency of the sensible qualities was recognised – a turn influenced by the reinterpretation of Aristotelian philosophy offered by Jacopo Zabarella and the Paduan school, as well as by anti-Aristotelianism of the kind developed in Netherlands. Furthermore, the two different approaches to the primary/ secondary distinction can be linked with two main types of post-Cartesian idealism, i.e. Berkeleian and Kantian – a claim for which illustrative evidence from British philosophy, namely from Berkeley’s and Burthogge’s respective theories, can be drawn.