The former German Language Island Markowa (Eastern Poland) was grounded in the 14th century. There is only one written testimony of its language preserved – the Court Book. In was written in 16th and 17th century by two writters. The second one was the local priest Thomas Kraus who was born in the neighbor village of Albigowa. The language of the Court book consists many characteristics of the Central German.

The aim of this paper is to show how the dimensions of imagery, one of the most important human cognitive abilities, can be expressed, that is to consider the impact this ability can have on the process of text production and its understanding in translation. It is presented on the example of the novella by Thomas Mann A Man and His Dog and its translation into Polish by Leopold Staff how the cognitve translation theory based on the cognitive grammar of Langacker (1987, 1991) can be applied to translation analysis. First, the terms conceptualization and imagery are introduced and explained from the cognitive perspective and the dimensions of imagery: selection, abstraction and perspective are desribed. Based on this, the results of the analysis of examples selected from the novella by Thomas Mann and its Polish translation are presented.

The subject of the article is the ratification by Bundestag in may 1972 of the agreement between Poland and the Federal Republic of Germany about the normalization of their relationships. This agreement, however was criticized by the then opposition CDU/CSU-fraction, finally was accepted, because of the pression by the allies Germany, but mainly USA. The article exposes the role of Chancellor Willy Brandt as the main advocate of agreement and reconciliation between Poland and Germany.

The author presents his understanding of Cultural Studies as an academic field that integrates various disciplines of the Humanities and Social Sciences. On the basis of such a conception of Cultural Science he proposes the concept of Kulturkomparatistik, which goes beyond its conventional philological meaning and enables comparative research outside of Linguistics and Literary Studies. Based on the OECD classification of the Revised Fields of Science and Technology, the author prepares taxonomy of Social Sciences and Culture, which can be compared with each other in two or more countries. The author points out the importance of cultural comparison for raising students’ awareness for the “Other” and the experience of “Foreignness”, for the development of attitudes of tolerance and empathy, as well as the applicability of the results in the social and political practice in each country.