Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature – serie
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Estuary English?
A sociophonetic study of teenage speech in the Home Counties
Av Joanna Przedlacka, Jacek Fisiak
Häftad, 2002
606 kr
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This book discusses the phonetic make-up of the teenage speech in the Home Counties in order to verify the status of a putative new variety referred to as «Estuary English». The study compares the findings of a field research carried out by the author in the vicinity of London in 1998/1999 with the …
Epistemological Perspectives on Linguistic Semiotics
Häftad, 2003
709 kr
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This book is aimed at investigating the consequences of epistemological positions for the foundation of linguistic semiotics with special reference to the concepts of sign and meaning. In the succeeding five chapters, the reader is provided with a panorama of theory-and-method related views that …
Bridges and Barriers in Metalinguistic Discourse
Av Anna Duszak, Urszula Okulska
Häftad, 2006
1070 kr
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Linguistics has found itself in the middle of a lively debate about its disciplinary integrity, its future and role in modern societies. The ongoing discussions thrive on impulses coming from within the field and from other disciplines that either inform linguistic expertise or are themselves …
Language and Meaning
Cognitive and Functional Perspectives
Häftad, 2007
1155 kr
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The collection of papers addresses the perennial problem of the relation between language and meaning. It proposes various theoretical approaches to the issue ranging from a synergetic theory of meaning merging the cognitive and the socio-historical perspectives, through holistic, evolutionary …
Elements of Slavic and Germanic Grammars: A Comparative View
Papers on Topical Issues in Syntax and Morphosyntax
Av Jacek Witkos, Gisbert Fanselow
Häftad, 2008
1002 kr
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This book is a collection of papers on various aspects of the syntax and morphosyntax of Germanic and Slavic languages (English, German, Czech, Polish, and Russian), stemming from the Syntax Session of the 2006 PLM conference in Poznań (Poland). Gisbert Fanselow and Caroline Féry discuss lack of …
Intertextual Transactions in American and Irish Fictions
Edited by Janusz Semrau
Inbunden, 2009
721 kr
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This volume is a posthumous revised edition of selected papers by Andrzej Kopcewicz on intertextual transactions in classic works of American and Irish fiction, published originally between 1992 and 2005. The book opens with a theoretical essay and proceeds with individual analyses of the …
Inheritance of Features in Metaphoric Mappings in English
Häftad, 2009
687 kr
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The book is devoted to conceptual metaphors in English according to the level of abstraction in their target domains. The findings reveal a striking difference between mappings onto concrete domains and mappings onto abstract ones. In metaphors with concrete target domains, a preexisting similarity …
Orthographic Systems in Thirteen Editions of the «Kalender of Shepherdes» (1506–1656)
Inbunden, 2013
920 kr
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This corpus-based study examines the orthographic systems in thirteen editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes (1506–1656), a comprehensive compendium of prose and verse texts of different length and on a variety of subjects, for example, astronomy, agriculture, medicine, and religion. It focuses on …
English in Kenya or Kenyan English?
Inbunden, 2014
642 kr
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The book aims to recognize or reject English in Kenya as a new, emancipated variety of English developing in a multilingual environment of permanent language contact. It discusses in detail the sociolinguistic situation in contemporary Kenya based on Labov’s extra-linguistic parameters and the …
In Search of Processes of Language Use in Foreign Language Didactics
Inbunden, 2014
1105 kr
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The author addresses key questions of foreign language teaching: How does foreign language learning take place? What is the mechanism of foreign language use and learning? What are the sources of our understanding of these processes? What significance does our understanding have for foreign …
Language Therapy Space
Teaching English as a Foreign Language to the Visually Impaired
Inbunden, 2016
774 kr
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Language can be seen as a therapeutic tool to the visually impaired. The author explores the psycho-linguistic therapy «Touching the World» which is rooted within two areas. The mental one pivots on emotional openness and balance, gained through the sandtray therapy, controlled breathing practice, …
Optimizing the Process of Teaching English for Medical Purposes with the Use of Mobile Applications
A Memrise-based Case Study
Av Maria Chojnacka, Jacek Fisiak
Inbunden, 2017
831 kr
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The ubiquity of mobile devices has opened the way to extending learning environments far beyond the constraints of the traditional foreign language classroom. This book seeks to advance the knowledge about effective learning and teaching of English for Medical Purposes supported by mobile …
Syntax of Numeral Noun Constructions
A view from Polish
Av Jacek Witkoś, Dominika Dziubała-Szrejbrowska m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
780 kr
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Numeral constructions in Polish are known for their complex morpho-syntax: in particular, depending on the type, case and syntactic context, the numeral may show properties of the adjective or the noun. This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of these constructions set in the current …
Scarlet Letter. New Critical Essays
Inbunden, 2018
632 kr
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This book is a collection of critical essays on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) – one of the most influential American works of fiction. The presented interpretations deal not only with the principal characters of the novel, but also with «The Custom-House», the Spanish sailors, the …
Bind Me Tender, Bind Me Do!
Dative and Accusative Arguments as Antecedents for Reflexives in Polish
Av Jacek Witkos, Paulina Łęska m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
678 kr
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One of the well-known properties of Slavic languages is that they show subject-oriented reflexives. This book presents this phenomenon in Polish in great empirical detail and provides its up-to-date syntactic analysis, couched in the minimalist model of grammar. The analysis accounts for the fact …
Quantifier Scope as a Diagnostic for the Position of Arguments of Ditransitive Verbs
Av Paulina Łęska, Jacek Witkoś
Inbunden, 2020
818 kr
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The study presented in this book aimed to test the argument structure of ditransitive verbs in Polish with the use of quantifier scope interpretation. Since these verbs typically allow for relatively free object order, it is not clear whether any of the object orders is basic or if they constitute …
Thirty Years of Contrastive Linguistics Conferences: A Volume in Memory of Jacek Fisiak (1936-2019)
Av Camiel Hamans, Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
785 kr
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This collection briefly looks at the history of contrastive linguistics and the place the Poznań School of Contrastive Linguistics occupied, with an emphasis on new contrastive research that shows where the field now stands. Through 17 contributions, internationally well-known specialists show the …
Word Order Matters
Current Issues in Syntax and Morpho-Syntax
Av Jacek Witkoś, Przemysław Tajsner
Inbunden, 2022
556 kr
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This book contains a selection of papers on issues of current interest in syntax and morpho-syntax. Most topics pertain to the question of the relation between word order and syntactic structure. The discussion starts with a proposal of extending the theory of relativization to reason clauses. It …
Time for words
Studies in Foreign Language Vocabulary Acquisition
Häftad, 2002
759 kr
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This volume contains a selection of papers on different aspects of foreign vocabulary learning and acquisition. It presents various theoretical issues concerning the language learning process itself and describes its nature. The last section of the volume deals with vocabulary learning strategies …
In Search of Communication and Community
The Poetry of John Ashbery
Av Kacper Bartczak, Jacek Fisiak
Häftad, 2006
734 kr
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This book is an attempt to offer a reading of the poet’s œuvre that will venture beyond indeterminacy and retrieve a human struggle inscribed in the poetry. The author proposes an eclectic approach that allows the reader to see Ashbery’s poetry as part of a fascinating intellectual landscape. …
English «at»: An Integrated Semantic Analysis
Av Iwona Kokorniak, Jacek Fisiak
Häftad, 2007
593 kr
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This book aims to provide a considerably detailed, integrated and methodologically grounded study of at within the cognitive framework. Assuming the non-arbitrary quality of the mental lexicon and highly creative nature of the human conceptual system, it is posited that each preposition has a …
Achievements and Perspectives in SLA of Speech: New Sounds 2010
Volume I
Av Malgorzata Kul, Magdalena Wrembel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
734 kr
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This publication constitutes a selection of papers presented at the 6th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, New Sounds 2010, held in Poznań, Poland. It consists of two volumes, presenting state-of-the-art achievements and perspectives for future research related to …
Form-Focused Instruction and the Advanced Language Learner
On the Importance of the Semantics of Grammar
Inbunden, 2011
872 kr
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Form-Focused Instruction and the Advanced Language Learner looks at the role of FFI at higher levels of foreign language learning. It argues that – contrary to a common belief – there are aspects of grammar to be taught to the proficient FL user. While such a learner may be familiar with formal …
