2008 shall brings about the launching the new Great Polish-German PWN Dictionary ed. by prof. dr Józef Wiktorowicz and dr Agnieszka Frączek – both renowned specialists and linguists. The dictionary, whose second German-Polish volume will be published in 2009, continues the PWN tradition of publishing the most thorough and useful dictionaries. The publications are being prepared by teams of celebrated lexicographers, consultants and lecturers from Poland and abroad. Thus, the project has gained the recognition and honorary support of such renowned institutions as the Embassy of Austria, Germany and Switzerland, Deutsches Polen Institut, Stifung Fur Deutsch-Polnische Zusammenarbeit, as well as the patronage of prof. Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, prof. Anna Lipowicz and Gesine Schwan.

The dictionary has been created with both foreigners and Poles in mind. It offers access to:

• the most up to date list of entries,
• provides useful synonyms,
• drawing from the Corpus of the Polish Language, the dictionary provides examples of usage in contexts which have proven most useful in illustrating the meaning of a particular word or phrase,
• provides an unusually big number of autriacisms and helvetisms, as well as regional phrases used in the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Germany,
• provides access to proper written versions of vocabulary,
• structured in na clear and user friendly manner.

The dictionary shall be promoted during Frankfurt Book Fair. A brief presentation with the participation of Ms. Barbara Jóźwiak – President of Polish Scientific Publishers PWN, Ms. Marzena Świrska-Molenda – director of Foreign Language Dictionaries Department at Polish Scientific Publishers PWN, Mr. Dieter Bingen – Director of Deutsches-Polen Institut under the moderation of dr Aleksandra Markiewicz, shall take place on Wednesday, October 10th at the Translators’ Centre, Hall 5.0. B955. Please kindly honor us with your presence. To view the invitation to the conference, please click the following URL: invitation (PDF, 32KB).

PWN has also provided a sample of the dictionary. To access it, please click the following URL: sample (PDF, 720KB).

The editorial work on the Polish-German PWN Dictionary has been supported by Stiftung fur Deutsch-Polnische Zusammenarbeit.

On behalf of Polish Scientific Publishers PWN,
Malgorzata Borkowska
Foreign Rights Manager
malgorzata.borkowska@pwn.com.pl