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Del 4 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Estuary English?
A sociophonetic study of teenage speech in the Home Counties
AvJoanna Przedlacka,Jacek Fisiak
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
593 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 data from the Survey of English Dialects obtained half a century earlier. The results of the research show that «Estuary English» should be viewed as a number of distinct accents with some influences of London speech, not a single and definable variety.
Del 8 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Epistemological Perspectives on Linguistic Semiotics
AvZdzislaw Wasik
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
694 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 show how far the specification of the subject matter of semiotics is dependent upon the ontological and gnoseological commitments of scientists. Language as a system of shared means of signification and communication is discussed here with respect to its systemic and ecological properties constituting an investigative object of linguistics proper or an aspect of other objects studied by adjacent disciplines. Separate attention is devoted to the concept of subjective significance uniting the domain of human semiotics within the framework of natural and cultural sciences.
Del 17 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Bridges and Barriers in Metalinguistic Discourse
AvAnna Duszak,Urszula Okulska
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
1 070 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 informed by it. They are also encouraged by a growing language awareness of individuals and entire social groups. This collection of papers covers a wide range of linguistic topics, exposing and exploring the plurilingualism of today’s meta-linguistic reflection. The topics in analytical focus include the apparent integrity and the fragmentation of linguistics, starting with the early conceptions of autonomy and modularity, and ending with their elaboration in terms of interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and, more recently, postdisciplinarity of modern scholarship. The methodological pluralism of modern linguistics is shown to depend on what were and what are today the privileged modes of communication. The role of folk and expert knowledge is emphasized in the construction of metalinguistic theories and their social legitimization. Speaking up from a variety of perspectives, the contributions in this volume show that the ventriloquation of today’s metalinguistic writings is best interpretable in terms of bridges and barriers in how the metalinguistic dialogue is pursued, whether on an internal or a cross-disciplinary basis.
Del 19 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Language and Meaning
Cognitive and Functional Perspectives
AvMalgorzata Fabiszak
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
1 131 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 models and a revision of some of the assumptions of Cognitive Metaphor Theory to the discussion of the role of pragmatic competence in meaning construction. A number of papers make recourse to corpus based studies and psycholinguistic experiments. The topics of specific linguistic investigations cover such diverse issues as idiom processing, emotion words in Chinese, valuation of abstract nouns, the preposition at and scalar adjectives. Several papers explore the application of the reflections on the nature of meaning to lexicography and translation. One, self-reflective article investigates the consequences of the unformulated assumptions about meaning for the coherence of proposed linguistic theories. The volume firmly places the study of meaning in the centre of the linguistic research by showing its significance for linguistic theory and its applications.
Del 23 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Elements of Slavic and Germanic Grammars: A Comparative View
Papers on Topical Issues in Syntax and Morphosyntax
AvJacek Witkos,Gisbert Fanselow
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
980 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 Superiority with German movement; Gereon Müller links pro-drop to non-impoverished inflectional morphology; Christopher Wilder deals with English constructions with a directional locative and imperative; Adam Biały decomposes event structure; Katarzyna Sówka analyses the semantics of German verbs of giving; Ewa Bułat takes a fresh look at null subjects; Helen Trugman presents the distribution of adnominal adjectives in Russian; Agnieszka Pysz explores the same issue in Old English; Bożena Cetnarowska employs OT to describe possessives in Polish; Katarzyna Miechowicz-Mathiasen and Paweł Scheffler compare Polish and Italian reversible verbs; Radek Šimik describes different relative pronouns in Czech; Mojmir Dočekal discusses lack of WCO effects in Czech; Michael Moss argues for a complex structure of the Polish clause, and Jacek Witkoś demonstrates that control-as-movement penetrates CPs.
Del 28 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Intertextual Transactions in American and Irish Fictions
Edited by Janusz Semrau
AvJanusz Semrau
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
705 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 interrelatedness, overlappings, entanglements, and reciprocities of some of the best-known works by Paul Auster and Herman Melville – Henry Adams, Frank R. Stockton and Thomas Pynchon – Donald Barthelme and James Joyce – James Joyce, Flann O’Brien and Gilbert Sorrentino. The chapters lend themselves to being read in any order, selectively, and in isolation. Given a literal perspective by incongruity, however, the Joycean premise of the book is that a commodius vicus of recirculation (type by tope, letter from litter, word at ward) may bring the reader in any case (back) to the beginning.
Del 26 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Inheritance of Features in Metaphoric Mappings in English
AvMichal Janowski
Häftad, Engelska, 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 between the source and target concepts can be revealed or highlighted. In contrast, when the target domain is abstract, the similarity between the source and target concepts is created rather than merely revealed or highlighted. To some degree, creation of similarity is possible even with concrete domains, but in abstract ones it is necessary, not optional. This is because abstract concepts have little or no schematic structure in the first place. Since abstract concepts are classified in language as kinds of physical objects, they inherit rudimentary physical properties, such as density, weight, temperature, etc. Looking at metaphors from this perspective allows us to refine the existing theories of metaphor.
Del 35 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Orthographic Systems in Thirteen Editions of the «Kalender of Shepherdes» (1506–1656)
AvHanna Rutkowska
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
900 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 the variation and consistency levels in the early-modern printers’ spelling practice, and evaluates the potential importance of extra-linguistic motivation for the identified regularising changes from the language authorities of the time, including lexicographers, spelling reformers, orthoepists, grammarians, and schoolmasters. Additionally, the book provides the reader with a brief overview of the printers’ punctuation, capitalisation, and word-division conventions, as well as with selected bibliographical and textual information concerning the publication history of the Kalender of Shepherdes.
Del 36 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
English in Kenya or Kenyan English?
AvNatalia Budohoska
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
622 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 results of a customized survey carried out by the author in Kenya. Furthermore, it identifies and describes characteristic stylistic, lexical, morphological and syntactic features of English in Kenya on the basis of the International Corpus of English (ICE). The theoretical framework employs Schneider’s Dynamic Model of Postcolonial Englishes and an effort is made to put the amount of variation found in the ICE into a wider context of other varieties of English around the world.
Del 37 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
In Search of Processes of Language Use in Foreign Language Didactics
AvMaria Dakowska
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
1 082 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 teaching? The main argument is that, in order to deal with the complexity of language learning and meet the current demands for foreign language competency, we must employ the framework of an empirical, relatively autonomous discipline of Foreign Language Didactics, constituted as a «normal» science which strives to understand foreign language learning as its subject-matter. This constructivist psycholinguistic conception targets language learning processes in the real world, i.e. as language use in the context of verbal communication, i.e. comprehension and production in speech and writing. The processes are represented as taking place in the learner’s cognitive system for information processing in communicative interaction, a universal human phenomenon. This perspective leads to systematic options and strategies for the practical teaching of foreign languages with focus on English as a world language.
Del 38 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Language Therapy Space
Teaching English as a Foreign Language to the Visually Impaired
AvBeata Wyszyńska
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
757 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, the Brain Linkage Method, and the edu-kinaesthetic area. The linguistic layer offers a two-pathed differentiation. Lexical and grammar fields are taught through the Re-charged Direct Method, enriched with sand and water experiments, based on tactile-audible perception. The author’s suggestions to explore language as a therapy tool show how deeply the possibilities and discoveries are hidden in a language teaching-learning process.
Del 39 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Optimizing the Process of Teaching English for Medical Purposes with the Use of Mobile Applications
A Memrise-based Case Study
AvMaria Chojnacka,Jacek Fisiak
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
813 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 environments. The author investigates the effectiveness of the use of a mobile version of a flashcard spaced-repetition learning platform. In conclusion, she presents core principles of an educational solution that supports the ongoing and situated learning of English for Medical Purposes by designing a mobile spaced-repetition medical vocabulary tutor («Mobile Medical English Companion»).
Del 40 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Syntax of Numeral Noun Constructions
A view from Polish
AvJacek Witkoś,Dominika Dziubała-Szrejbrowskam. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
764 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 generative-minimalist model of grammar, with elements of nano-syntax. The authors pay particular attention to a feature-based derivation of the numeral construction in its different versions, including complex multiplicative numerals, as well as its distribution in the clause. Numerals in the subject position, with their peculiar case and agreement features become a focal point of attention. Their properties receive a principled account through the use of the case projection sequence and disciplined movements within it.
Del 41 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Scarlet Letter. New Critical Essays
AvJanusz Semrau
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
618 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 Book of Revelations, and the artist as adulterer. The critical tools employed include allegory, the Biedermeier, hermeneutical exposition, semiosis of the infans, and triangular desire.This publication is dedicated to the memory of Andrzej Kopcewicz (1934-2007), the first professor ordinarius of American literature in the history of English studies in Poland, on the tenth anniversary of his death.
Del 42 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Bind Me Tender, Bind Me Do!
Dative and Accusative Arguments as Antecedents for Reflexives in Polish
AvJacek Witkos,Paulina Łęskam. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
664 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 that not only nominative subjects but also experiencers, both dative-marked and some accusative-marked, function as antecedents for reflexive elements. On the basis of empirical studies, the book explains why dative experiencers bind both reflexive and pronominal possessives in identical local configurations, while nominatve subjects bind only reflexive possessives. The authors investigate both long-distance binding relations in infinitives and contexts internal to nominal phrases. Extensive references are made to binding in other languages and alternative models.
Del 43 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Quantifier Scope as a Diagnostic for the Position of Arguments of Ditransitive Verbs
AvPaulina Łęska,Jacek Witkoś
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
800 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 separate underlying structures. The study reports the results of five experiments testing acceptability of scope interpretation of Polish quantified objects in two object orders, using variables such as coordination, to reveal which scope changing mechanism is responsible for ambiguity. The results showed that only the DO-IO order allowed for scope ambiguity, however, to a different degree depending on the semantic class of the verb. This indicates that the merge position of objects is contingent upon that factor.
Del 45 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Thirty Years of Contrastive Linguistics Conferences: A Volume in Memory of Jacek Fisiak (1936-2019)
AvCamiel Hamans,Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczykm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
768 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 place contrastive linguistic research occupies in modern linguistics after more than half a century.
Del 44 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Word Order Matters
Current Issues in Syntax and Morpho-Syntax
AvJacek Witkoś,Przemysław Tajsner
Inbunden, Engelska, 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 continues with the analysis of the realization of focus in Basque and the discussion of current views on the syntax of cleft constructions. Next, an inquiry into the rigidity of sentence left-periphery is offered in a cross-linguistic perspective. The two final contributions discuss feature-free derivations in syntax applied to a single morpho-syntactic problem, and the question of gradient acceptability of Polish sentences featuring possessive items in the context of the competition between their reflexive and pronominal forms.
Del 6 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Time for words
Studies in Foreign Language Vocabulary Acquisition
AvJanusz Arabski
Häftad, Engelska, 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 considered as procedures applied by learners themselves.
Del 16 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
In Search of Communication and Community
The Poetry of John Ashbery
AvKacper Bartczak,Jacek Fisiak
Häftad, Engelska, 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. Departing from the work of such critics as Perloff, Bloom, and Altieri, the study structures lively transactions between poetry, literary criticism, art, and the work of philosophers: Stanley Cavell, Richard Rorty, Donald Davidson, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Such background provides a theoretical platform for the new reading of many of Ashbery’s most important poems. The resulting interpretations give us a poet who, desiring to obtain communicative passages toward the other, must overcome varieties of skepticism and solipsism. Parallel to these developments is the emergent perspective of a larger community of language users who share a strange, menacing, but beautiful world – our world.
Del 21 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
English «at»: An Integrated Semantic Analysis
AvIwona Kokorniak,Jacek Fisiak
Häftad, Engelska, 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 primary sense which interacts with a highly constrained set of cognitive principles to derive a set of additional distinct senses, forming a motivated semantic network. The present analysis also reveals that at is remarkably coherent in its metaphoric and metonymic manifestations in that there exists a high degree of family resemblances between all the uses discussed in this study. Theoretical investigation is set against empirical data to offer support for the claim that both native and advanced foreign language speakers appear to possess a high awareness and intuition about the proper conceptualization of individual at-senses.
Del 31 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Achievements and Perspectives in SLA of Speech: New Sounds 2010
Volume I
AvMalgorzata Kul,Magdalena Wrembelm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
718 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 the acquisition of second language phonetics and phonology. The key issues include the development of explanatory frameworks of phonological SLA, the expanded scope of domains under investigation, modern methods applied in phonological research, and a new take on the causal variables related to ultimate proficiency in L2 speech. This first volume contains a selection of 27 articles that cover a wide variety of themes including L2 speech perception and production, segmental and prosodic features, as well as factors related to foreign accentedness, individual variability and ultimate achievement in the acquisition of speech.
Del 33 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Form-Focused Instruction and the Advanced Language Learner
On the Importance of the Semantics of Grammar
AvAnna Turula,Jacek Fisiak
Inbunden, Engelska, 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 properties of different structures, (s)he still needs to focus on the semantics of target language grammar. Considering this, the book investigates the efficiency of a FFI treatment called Organic Approach Deductivised or 3-D language pedagogy, devised to teach the semantics of the English tense-and-aspect system to the advanced EFL learner. In doing so, the book takes the reader through different aspects of focus on form, looking at the semantics of the English time talk from the cognitive perspective.

Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature – serie

Visar alla böcker i serien Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.

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23 produkter

Del 4 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Estuary English?
A sociophonetic study of teenage speech in the Home Counties
AvJoanna Przedlacka,Jacek Fisiak
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
593 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 data from the Survey of English Dialects obtained half a century earlier. The results of the research show that «Estuary English» should be viewed as a number of distinct accents with some influences of London speech, not a single and definable variety.
Del 8 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Epistemological Perspectives on Linguistic Semiotics
AvZdzislaw Wasik
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
694 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 show how far the specification of the subject matter of semiotics is dependent upon the ontological and gnoseological commitments of scientists. Language as a system of shared means of signification and communication is discussed here with respect to its systemic and ecological properties constituting an investigative object of linguistics proper or an aspect of other objects studied by adjacent disciplines. Separate attention is devoted to the concept of subjective significance uniting the domain of human semiotics within the framework of natural and cultural sciences.
Del 17 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Bridges and Barriers in Metalinguistic Discourse
AvAnna Duszak,Urszula Okulska
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
1 070 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 informed by it. They are also encouraged by a growing language awareness of individuals and entire social groups. This collection of papers covers a wide range of linguistic topics, exposing and exploring the plurilingualism of today’s meta-linguistic reflection. The topics in analytical focus include the apparent integrity and the fragmentation of linguistics, starting with the early conceptions of autonomy and modularity, and ending with their elaboration in terms of interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and, more recently, postdisciplinarity of modern scholarship. The methodological pluralism of modern linguistics is shown to depend on what were and what are today the privileged modes of communication. The role of folk and expert knowledge is emphasized in the construction of metalinguistic theories and their social legitimization. Speaking up from a variety of perspectives, the contributions in this volume show that the ventriloquation of today’s metalinguistic writings is best interpretable in terms of bridges and barriers in how the metalinguistic dialogue is pursued, whether on an internal or a cross-disciplinary basis.
Del 19 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Language and Meaning
Cognitive and Functional Perspectives
AvMalgorzata Fabiszak
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
1 131 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 models and a revision of some of the assumptions of Cognitive Metaphor Theory to the discussion of the role of pragmatic competence in meaning construction. A number of papers make recourse to corpus based studies and psycholinguistic experiments. The topics of specific linguistic investigations cover such diverse issues as idiom processing, emotion words in Chinese, valuation of abstract nouns, the preposition at and scalar adjectives. Several papers explore the application of the reflections on the nature of meaning to lexicography and translation. One, self-reflective article investigates the consequences of the unformulated assumptions about meaning for the coherence of proposed linguistic theories. The volume firmly places the study of meaning in the centre of the linguistic research by showing its significance for linguistic theory and its applications.
Del 23 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Elements of Slavic and Germanic Grammars: A Comparative View
Papers on Topical Issues in Syntax and Morphosyntax
AvJacek Witkos,Gisbert Fanselow
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
980 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 Superiority with German movement; Gereon Müller links pro-drop to non-impoverished inflectional morphology; Christopher Wilder deals with English constructions with a directional locative and imperative; Adam Biały decomposes event structure; Katarzyna Sówka analyses the semantics of German verbs of giving; Ewa Bułat takes a fresh look at null subjects; Helen Trugman presents the distribution of adnominal adjectives in Russian; Agnieszka Pysz explores the same issue in Old English; Bożena Cetnarowska employs OT to describe possessives in Polish; Katarzyna Miechowicz-Mathiasen and Paweł Scheffler compare Polish and Italian reversible verbs; Radek Šimik describes different relative pronouns in Czech; Mojmir Dočekal discusses lack of WCO effects in Czech; Michael Moss argues for a complex structure of the Polish clause, and Jacek Witkoś demonstrates that control-as-movement penetrates CPs.
Del 28 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Intertextual Transactions in American and Irish Fictions
Edited by Janusz Semrau
AvJanusz Semrau
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
705 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 interrelatedness, overlappings, entanglements, and reciprocities of some of the best-known works by Paul Auster and Herman Melville – Henry Adams, Frank R. Stockton and Thomas Pynchon – Donald Barthelme and James Joyce – James Joyce, Flann O’Brien and Gilbert Sorrentino. The chapters lend themselves to being read in any order, selectively, and in isolation. Given a literal perspective by incongruity, however, the Joycean premise of the book is that a commodius vicus of recirculation (type by tope, letter from litter, word at ward) may bring the reader in any case (back) to the beginning.
Del 26 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Inheritance of Features in Metaphoric Mappings in English
AvMichal Janowski
Häftad, Engelska, 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 between the source and target concepts can be revealed or highlighted. In contrast, when the target domain is abstract, the similarity between the source and target concepts is created rather than merely revealed or highlighted. To some degree, creation of similarity is possible even with concrete domains, but in abstract ones it is necessary, not optional. This is because abstract concepts have little or no schematic structure in the first place. Since abstract concepts are classified in language as kinds of physical objects, they inherit rudimentary physical properties, such as density, weight, temperature, etc. Looking at metaphors from this perspective allows us to refine the existing theories of metaphor.
Del 35 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Orthographic Systems in Thirteen Editions of the «Kalender of Shepherdes» (1506–1656)
AvHanna Rutkowska
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
900 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 the variation and consistency levels in the early-modern printers’ spelling practice, and evaluates the potential importance of extra-linguistic motivation for the identified regularising changes from the language authorities of the time, including lexicographers, spelling reformers, orthoepists, grammarians, and schoolmasters. Additionally, the book provides the reader with a brief overview of the printers’ punctuation, capitalisation, and word-division conventions, as well as with selected bibliographical and textual information concerning the publication history of the Kalender of Shepherdes.
Del 36 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
English in Kenya or Kenyan English?
AvNatalia Budohoska
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
622 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 results of a customized survey carried out by the author in Kenya. Furthermore, it identifies and describes characteristic stylistic, lexical, morphological and syntactic features of English in Kenya on the basis of the International Corpus of English (ICE). The theoretical framework employs Schneider’s Dynamic Model of Postcolonial Englishes and an effort is made to put the amount of variation found in the ICE into a wider context of other varieties of English around the world.
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In Search of Processes of Language Use in Foreign Language Didactics
AvMaria Dakowska
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
1 082 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 teaching? The main argument is that, in order to deal with the complexity of language learning and meet the current demands for foreign language competency, we must employ the framework of an empirical, relatively autonomous discipline of Foreign Language Didactics, constituted as a «normal» science which strives to understand foreign language learning as its subject-matter. This constructivist psycholinguistic conception targets language learning processes in the real world, i.e. as language use in the context of verbal communication, i.e. comprehension and production in speech and writing. The processes are represented as taking place in the learner’s cognitive system for information processing in communicative interaction, a universal human phenomenon. This perspective leads to systematic options and strategies for the practical teaching of foreign languages with focus on English as a world language.
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Language Therapy Space
Teaching English as a Foreign Language to the Visually Impaired
AvBeata Wyszyńska
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
757 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, the Brain Linkage Method, and the edu-kinaesthetic area. The linguistic layer offers a two-pathed differentiation. Lexical and grammar fields are taught through the Re-charged Direct Method, enriched with sand and water experiments, based on tactile-audible perception. The author’s suggestions to explore language as a therapy tool show how deeply the possibilities and discoveries are hidden in a language teaching-learning process.
Del 39 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Optimizing the Process of Teaching English for Medical Purposes with the Use of Mobile Applications
A Memrise-based Case Study
AvMaria Chojnacka,Jacek Fisiak
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
813 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 environments. The author investigates the effectiveness of the use of a mobile version of a flashcard spaced-repetition learning platform. In conclusion, she presents core principles of an educational solution that supports the ongoing and situated learning of English for Medical Purposes by designing a mobile spaced-repetition medical vocabulary tutor («Mobile Medical English Companion»).
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Syntax of Numeral Noun Constructions
A view from Polish
AvJacek Witkoś,Dominika Dziubała-Szrejbrowskam. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
764 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 generative-minimalist model of grammar, with elements of nano-syntax. The authors pay particular attention to a feature-based derivation of the numeral construction in its different versions, including complex multiplicative numerals, as well as its distribution in the clause. Numerals in the subject position, with their peculiar case and agreement features become a focal point of attention. Their properties receive a principled account through the use of the case projection sequence and disciplined movements within it.
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Scarlet Letter. New Critical Essays
AvJanusz Semrau
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
618 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 Book of Revelations, and the artist as adulterer. The critical tools employed include allegory, the Biedermeier, hermeneutical exposition, semiosis of the infans, and triangular desire.This publication is dedicated to the memory of Andrzej Kopcewicz (1934-2007), the first professor ordinarius of American literature in the history of English studies in Poland, on the tenth anniversary of his death.
Del 42 - Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Bind Me Tender, Bind Me Do!
Dative and Accusative Arguments as Antecedents for Reflexives in Polish
AvJacek Witkos,Paulina Łęskam. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
664 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 that not only nominative subjects but also experiencers, both dative-marked and some accusative-marked, function as antecedents for reflexive elements. On the basis of empirical studies, the book explains why dative experiencers bind both reflexive and pronominal possessives in identical local configurations, while nominatve subjects bind only reflexive possessives. The authors investigate both long-distance binding relations in infinitives and contexts internal to nominal phrases. Extensive references are made to binding in other languages and alternative models.
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Quantifier Scope as a Diagnostic for the Position of Arguments of Ditransitive Verbs
AvPaulina Łęska,Jacek Witkoś
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
800 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 separate underlying structures. The study reports the results of five experiments testing acceptability of scope interpretation of Polish quantified objects in two object orders, using variables such as coordination, to reveal which scope changing mechanism is responsible for ambiguity. The results showed that only the DO-IO order allowed for scope ambiguity, however, to a different degree depending on the semantic class of the verb. This indicates that the merge position of objects is contingent upon that factor.
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Thirty Years of Contrastive Linguistics Conferences: A Volume in Memory of Jacek Fisiak (1936-2019)
AvCamiel Hamans,Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczykm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
768 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 place contrastive linguistic research occupies in modern linguistics after more than half a century.
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Word Order Matters
Current Issues in Syntax and Morpho-Syntax
AvJacek Witkoś,Przemysław Tajsner
Inbunden, Engelska, 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 continues with the analysis of the realization of focus in Basque and the discussion of current views on the syntax of cleft constructions. Next, an inquiry into the rigidity of sentence left-periphery is offered in a cross-linguistic perspective. The two final contributions discuss feature-free derivations in syntax applied to a single morpho-syntactic problem, and the question of gradient acceptability of Polish sentences featuring possessive items in the context of the competition between their reflexive and pronominal forms.
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Time for words
Studies in Foreign Language Vocabulary Acquisition
AvJanusz Arabski
Häftad, Engelska, 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 considered as procedures applied by learners themselves.
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In Search of Communication and Community
The Poetry of John Ashbery
AvKacper Bartczak,Jacek Fisiak
Häftad, Engelska, 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. Departing from the work of such critics as Perloff, Bloom, and Altieri, the study structures lively transactions between poetry, literary criticism, art, and the work of philosophers: Stanley Cavell, Richard Rorty, Donald Davidson, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Such background provides a theoretical platform for the new reading of many of Ashbery’s most important poems. The resulting interpretations give us a poet who, desiring to obtain communicative passages toward the other, must overcome varieties of skepticism and solipsism. Parallel to these developments is the emergent perspective of a larger community of language users who share a strange, menacing, but beautiful world – our world.
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English «at»: An Integrated Semantic Analysis
AvIwona Kokorniak,Jacek Fisiak
Häftad, Engelska, 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 primary sense which interacts with a highly constrained set of cognitive principles to derive a set of additional distinct senses, forming a motivated semantic network. The present analysis also reveals that at is remarkably coherent in its metaphoric and metonymic manifestations in that there exists a high degree of family resemblances between all the uses discussed in this study. Theoretical investigation is set against empirical data to offer support for the claim that both native and advanced foreign language speakers appear to possess a high awareness and intuition about the proper conceptualization of individual at-senses.
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Achievements and Perspectives in SLA of Speech: New Sounds 2010
Volume I
AvMalgorzata Kul,Magdalena Wrembelm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
718 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 the acquisition of second language phonetics and phonology. The key issues include the development of explanatory frameworks of phonological SLA, the expanded scope of domains under investigation, modern methods applied in phonological research, and a new take on the causal variables related to ultimate proficiency in L2 speech. This first volume contains a selection of 27 articles that cover a wide variety of themes including L2 speech perception and production, segmental and prosodic features, as well as factors related to foreign accentedness, individual variability and ultimate achievement in the acquisition of speech.
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Form-Focused Instruction and the Advanced Language Learner
On the Importance of the Semantics of Grammar
AvAnna Turula,Jacek Fisiak
Inbunden, Engelska, 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 properties of different structures, (s)he still needs to focus on the semantics of target language grammar. Considering this, the book investigates the efficiency of a FFI treatment called Organic Approach Deductivised or 3-D language pedagogy, devised to teach the semantics of the English tense-and-aspect system to the advanced EFL learner. In doing so, the book takes the reader through different aspects of focus on form, looking at the semantics of the English time talk from the cognitive perspective.

Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature – serie

Estuary English?

Epistemological Perspectives on Linguistic Semiotics

Bridges and Barriers in Metalinguistic Discourse

Language and Meaning

Elements of Slavic and Germanic Grammars: A Comparative View

Intertextual Transactions in American and Irish Fictions

Inheritance of Features in Metaphoric Mappings in English

Orthographic Systems in Thirteen Editions of the «Kalender of Shepherdes» (1506–1656)

English in Kenya or Kenyan English?

In Search of Processes of Language Use in Foreign Language Didactics

Language Therapy Space

Optimizing the Process of Teaching English for Medical Purposes with the Use of Mobile Applications

Syntax of Numeral Noun Constructions

Scarlet Letter. New Critical Essays

Bind Me Tender, Bind Me Do!

Quantifier Scope as a Diagnostic for the Position of Arguments of Ditransitive Verbs

Thirty Years of Contrastive Linguistics Conferences: A Volume in Memory of Jacek Fisiak (1936-2019)

Word Order Matters

Time for words

In Search of Communication and Community

English «at»: An Integrated Semantic Analysis

Achievements and Perspectives in SLA of Speech: New Sounds 2010

Form-Focused Instruction and the Advanced Language Learner

Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature – serie

Estuary English?

Epistemological Perspectives on Linguistic Semiotics

Bridges and Barriers in Metalinguistic Discourse

Language and Meaning

Elements of Slavic and Germanic Grammars: A Comparative View

Intertextual Transactions in American and Irish Fictions

Inheritance of Features in Metaphoric Mappings in English

Orthographic Systems in Thirteen Editions of the «Kalender of Shepherdes» (1506–1656)

English in Kenya or Kenyan English?

In Search of Processes of Language Use in Foreign Language Didactics

Language Therapy Space

Optimizing the Process of Teaching English for Medical Purposes with the Use of Mobile Applications

Syntax of Numeral Noun Constructions

Scarlet Letter. New Critical Essays

Bind Me Tender, Bind Me Do!

Quantifier Scope as a Diagnostic for the Position of Arguments of Ditransitive Verbs

Thirty Years of Contrastive Linguistics Conferences: A Volume in Memory of Jacek Fisiak (1936-2019)

Word Order Matters

Time for words

In Search of Communication and Community

English «at»: An Integrated Semantic Analysis

Achievements and Perspectives in SLA of Speech: New Sounds 2010

Form-Focused Instruction and the Advanced Language Learner