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Error-Based Evidence for the Phonology of Glides and Nasals in Polish with Reference to English
Inbunden, 2012
482 kr
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This book discusses the phonology of glides and nasals in Polish and English on the basis of spelling and pronunciation errors. The aim of this study is to show the relatedness between spelling and pronunciation errors and the phonological systems of both languages in Standard Generative Phonology …
Sociolinguistic aspects of the functioning of English in post-1989 Poland
Av Krzysztof Przygonski, Jacek Fisiak
Inbunden, 2012
612 kr
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The fall of communism fully opened Poland to the processes and phenomena operating in ever globalizing world. In line with global trends, English in post-socialist Poland has been steadily growing in importance. By employing a holistic integrative approach utilizing relevant theoretical, …
New Essays on the Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Inbunden, 2012
617 kr
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s status as an artist rests as much on The Scarlet Letter as on his short fictions. It is both telling and appropriate that academic research in the short story should be dated to Mary Rohrberger’s study Hawthorne and the Modern Short Story, published in 1966. The present volume …
Multilingualism and English
The Canton of Zurich as a linguistic paradigm
Inbunden, 2013
969 kr
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This study examines the use of English in Switzerland from a multilingual perspective based on a corpus of 400 interviews collected in the German speaking Canton of Zurich. It presents a framework for explaining the linguistic interaction that arises as a result of the use of a «globalizing» …
Cognitive Linguistics in the Making
Av Kinga Rudnicka-Szozda, Aleksander Szwedek
Inbunden, 2015
1071 kr
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The papers in this book address the most fundamental, currently investigated problems in cognitive linguistics in a wide spectrum of perspectives. Apart from some traditional descriptions of particular metaphors and metonymies, there are analyses of spatio-temporal relations, motion and stillness, …
Dictionary of City Names in American Slang
Av Maciej Widawski, Malgorzata Kowalczyk m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
339 kr
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This unique dictionary presents popular slang names for North American cities. These expressions are used instead of official names to convey additional information. They are semantically rich and culturally meaningful, telegraphically describing the characteristics of the cities to which they …
Translating Anthroponyms
Exemplified by Selected Works of English Children’s Literature in their Polish Versions
Av Anna Danuta Fornalczyk, Jacek Fisiak
Inbunden, 2011
660 kr
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The subject of the present book are literary anthroponyms and their translation. The examples, taken from English children’s literature of the Victorian and Edwardian period, show that literary names are usually motivated and linked to their bearers, therefore it is necessary to investigate them in …
