Prof. Krzysztof Skibski: We started naturally from colloquial language

Prof. Krzysztof Skibski is vice-dean for student affairs and education at the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology. As a member of Liberal Arts and Sciences team, he teaches the class “Polish as the Language of Science”. We asked him for a few sentences of reflection related to his subject.

Perhaps it is the circumstances of the first classes with the Liberal arts and sciences group that have a specific impact on the growth of our cognitive enthusiasm. We are aware from the very beginning that the multifactorial nature of the experienced hic et nunc cannot be closed by a scheme.

We initiated joint work, interpreting the world in relation to various disciplines, specialized languages, but also - our individualities. That is why we started our classes on language (science) from colloquial language, from looking at words that seemingly do not surprise us, from reflecting on a language that "perhaps could somehow be overcome" (as Piotr Sommer wrote in a sonnet). We took poetry to reflect on the mechanisms of conceptualization. This is the way we would like to continue this adventure - being aware of the various forms of mediation (even if it is already obvious to us - resulting from remote), discussing, getting to know the texts of culture and looking at the language with which we talk (write) about all these discoveries.

If we manage to create a few extensive, problematized footnotes to everyday life (while maintaining forms appropriate for scientific works), then we will probably also discover many things in ourselves. We started and, having wiped the screens of our computers, we work together slowly and quite fast at the same time.