Diachronic differences and cultural universals as an elements of discussing movies: Selected reviews in pragmalinguistic perspective

Abstract

The material basis of the text is Zygmunt Kałużyński’s reviews anthology called Royal Cannon. His 50 Favourite Movies, which consists texts that were published by the critic in Polityka weekly, from 1957, when it was established, until 2001. Reviews were therefore created throughout 44 years, full of changes in culture, worldwide and domestic cinematography, and film genology. Because of the political and social reality of those days, Polish premieres of western film productions were often significantly belated in comparison to Western Europe countries.The direct matter of interest are lexical determinants of two antonymous semantic categories. These are: 1. Diachronic differences in the scope of the same culture group or between different groups motivated by chronology.2. Cultural–social universals.In case of both distinguished groups, the movie critic may play an important role as an intermediary role in the movies’ reception.