Cultures, Narratives, and Concepts

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk is Full Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Applied Sciences in Konin. She researches primarily cognitive semantics and pragmatics of language contrasts, corpus and cultural linguistics, media studies and their applica tions in translation studies, lexicography, FLT and online discourse analysis. Over the years she has been invited to read papers at various international conferences and to lecture and conduct seminars at the universities in Europe, Asia and Americas.

• Introduction.- Conceptualizing and Lexicalizing Pillars of Statehood: National Mottos Across Borders and Cultures.- The Construction of National “We” in Russian War-Related Political Discourse.- European Integration as a Wedding Ceremony - A critical metaphor analysis of Albania-EU relations.- A linguistic analysis of metaphorical euphemisms used in Dholuo HIV/AIDS discourse.- Conceptualization of Turner syndrome by Polish patients through the lens of the Illness Representation Model.- Sick Style Aesthetics. A cultural-linguistic perspective on a not so new microtrend.- The Stories Tell the Tale: Cultural Contact in Animal Narrative Discourse in the.- Indigenous Southeastern Unites States.- Navigating between the McDonaldization of media and Afriethics: On the cultural and ideological embedding of news discourse in East Africa.- Autobiographical Narratives and Political Appropriation. A case study of Educated by Tara Westover.- Transgression, (dis)othering and the Canadian (national) narrative –  a reading of What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad.- Transcultural Feminism in Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other.- Ethnocentrism in Literary Translation: Distorting Novelistic Prose through Rationalization.- The Motif of Religion in Charles Dickens: Translation Analysis of Oliver Twist and David Copperfield.- The Intersection of Literature, Culture and Gender Studies: Exploring Albanian Students' Perspectives.- Comparing the Tourism Attraction Cultures between Iran and Germany based on Hofstede Method.- AI trustworthiness and persuasive effects in users’ judgment.