Books in the Text - Meaning - Context: Cracow Studies in English Language, Literature and Culture series

Explores the use of idioms in Salman Rushdie's eleven novels. This study establishes Salman Rushdie's prose as highly idiomatic and the author as exceptionally creative when it comes to the deployment of idioms in literary texts.

The volume brings together a diverse body of scholars to investigate issues spanning narrativity, various modes of literary expressions, ekphrasis, intersemiotic translation and multimodal communication.

This book is dedicated to the issue of animal metaphor. The cognitively-oriented panchronic analysis is carried out in terms of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory. The results show that virtually any facet of humanity which is beyond the norm may be viewed, perceived, conceived of and expressed in animal terms.

The book offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the cognitive-semiotic interface between language, literature and the arts, with a special focus on creativity and imagination. It brings together international scholars, suggesting a wide range of innovative perspectives on the correlation between verbal discourse and creative artefacts.

Maria Jodlowiec shows how relevance theory can account for explicit and implicit communication. She emphasizes that this pragmatic model not only provides a coherent explanation of communication in which what is conveyed is straightforward and easy to identify, but also offers a fairly precise account of the vaguer aspects of verbal communication.

Offers a collection of essays on mutual influences and inspirations between authors, with a special focus on J M Coetzee. Bringing together a group of international scholars, this book offers a range of perspectives on how canonical and less canonical texts travel between literatures and cultures.

Translating audio description (AD) scripts from foreign into source language seems to be a tempting alternative strategy of creating AD scripts in those countries where AD is still scarce. The obtained results prove that translation of AD scripts is not only possible, but also beneficial when it comes to time consumption, costs and quality of AD.

This volume is a collection of papers approaching the phenomenon of language from a variety of perspectives, moving from the study of sound through the description of structure to the analysis of meaning. The volume has been brought together to honour Professor Piotr Ruszkiewicz from the Institute of Modern Languages in Cracow.

Echoes of English, also known as Anglicisms, are now heard all over the world. They encompass a wide range of linguistic phenomena, all of which are discussed in this book. Against a backdrop of corpus-based studies of Anglicisms in Danish, the present English influence in Scandinavia is compared with that regarding Afrikaans in South Africa.

This volume analyses the endeavours of early Elizabethan playwrights to examine the narrative possibilities of drama. The author explores how the interest in depicting subjective experience arose among English dramatists years before the theatre of Shakespeare and Jonson reached its zenith.

In this collection scholars in literature, translation, linguistics, philosophy and history share their readings of poetic expression from various ages. The result is a multi-disciplinary perspective that affords the reader the rare opportunity of being reminded of the many layers of the appeal and the pleasure of poetry.

This book results from joint research on the representations of migration conducted in connection with the Erasmus Intensive Programme entitled "Migration and Narration". The articles focus on various aspects of the migrant experience and try to answer questions about migrant identity and its representations in literature and the media.

Charts the evolution of attitudes to the Victorian age and investigates possible reasons for the current creative engagement with Victorianism. This title offers a schema for the classification of Victorianist fiction, whereas it finally presents an analyses of the chosen novels.

Offers a discussion of the phenomenon of migration and mobility in the modern globalised world and their impact on multiple aspects of culture and communication. This title examines problems that are related to migration, cultural diversity and cultural globalisation.

The book explores variations in English in the context of Facebook as a CMC register. The analysis covers, among others, markers of politeness, informal language, emotionality, and code-switching found in English used as a native, second and foreign language. The results show differences and similarities due to the users' culture, gender and age.

The volume is a collection of essays representative of the wide focus of research encouraged and coordinated by the Polish Association for the Study of English. Articles selected for the volume deal with works of poetry, drama and prose written in English and invite the reader to view them in the context of intercultural and intertextual discourse.

The book discusses the issue of religiosity in the context of American Jewish literature, emphasizing the significance of Judaism as an indispensable element in the formation of American Jewish female identity at the turn of the twenty-first century