Natalia Zawadzka-Paluektau – författare

This book adopts a triangulated approach to explore the complexity of migration discourses, bringing together argumentation analysis and corpus linguistics to the study of the “European refugee” crisis.Drawing on a corpus with data from across British, Polish, and Spanish newspapers, Zawadzka-Paluektau explores how migration from Asia and Africa to Europe over the 2015-2018 period was conceptualized as a period of crisis for Europe. The volume makes the case for a triangulated approach to understanding these dynamics more fully with its combination of robust quantitative corpus-based studies and richly detailed qualitative discourse analysis. Zawadzka-Paluektau uses this perspective to draw readers’ attention to recurring patterns in how refugees were represented in the European press across geographic contexts but also differences owing to extra-linguistic factors, including historical, cultural, and sociopolitical factors. In light of growing forced displacement and migration “crises” globally, the volume offers important insights into the study of immigration discourses in Europe and beyond and future directions for further research.This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, political discourse, media discourse, and migration studies.

A Frequency Dictionary of Polish is an invaluable tool for all learners of Polish, providing an index of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language.This dictionary is based on a 100-million-word corpus of Polish, which includes written texts and spoken material from a wide range of genres and registers, including conversation, fiction, newspapers, and e-language. It provides the user with detailed information for each of the top 5,000 entries, including English equivalents, a sample sentence and its English translation, usage statistics, and an indication of register variation. Users can access the entries either through the main frequency listing or through the alphabetical and part-of-speech indexes. Thematically organised lists of the top words from a variety of key topics such as sports, clothing, and family are presented throughout the frequency listing.An engaging, accessible, and highly useful resource, A Frequency Dictionary of Polish will enable students of all levels to get the most out of their language study.Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists, the full text is provided in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work at resourcecentre.routledge.com/books/9781041260639.