Books in the Warsaw Studies in English Language and Literature series

The papers address such topics as spatio-temporal relations, subjectivity and objectivity, virtuality, actuality and reality, iconicity, metaphor, metonymy, signed languages, force dynamics, prototype in linguistics and didactics, socio-political discourse, L2 acquisition, conceptual-linguistic creativity, and many other related problems.

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" language in a multilingual context.

The volume consists of reprints of papers originally published between 1967 and 2009. Terms like "congruence", "equivalence" and "tertium comparationis" as well as fundamental principles of classical, structural contrastive studies are defined. The study also contains articles which lay foundations of cognitively based contrastive studies.

An interdisciplinary, meta-semantic study of meaning, combining linguistics, semiotics and philosophy. Its main theoretical framework is Cognitive Linguistics. The author demonstrates how the theoretical and historiographic boundaries of the cognitive model of language can be broadened and enriched by semiotic and phenomenological perspectives.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's status as an artist rests as much on "The Scarlet Letter" as on his short fictions. In this book, the individual essays discuss Hawthorne's texts in quasi-generic terms, through some persistent American themes and motifs, as well as for their aesthetic, philosophical, and existential meanings.

The fall of communism fully opened Poland to the processes and phenomena operating in ever globalizing world. By employing a holistic integrative approach utilizing relevant theoretical, descriptive, and empirical insights, the author builds up a comprehensive picture of the sociolinguistic functioning of English in post-1989 Poland.

From Moby-Dick to Finnegans Wake

Inspired by Martin Heidegger's notion of being-in-the-world, this study presents a quasi-phenomenological close reading of Herman Melville's most famous novella "Bartleby the Scrivener" and Mark Twain's most famous novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".

Aims to describe Polish equivalents of the English articles. In this book, the author concludes that the functions of the articles are part of Functional Sentence Perspective (FSP) and that the general tendency is to put new information in final position.

This is a volume of selected papers presented at the International Conference on Historical English Word-Formation and Semantics held in Warsaw in 2011. The conference was attended by scholars from ten countries. Their papers covered a wide range of topics concerning the area of word formation and semantics in Old and Middle English.

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 and Optimality Theory.

Focuses on how anthroponyms function in the context of the narrative, situation and culture, and shows similarities and differences between the name systems of the original and the translation. This book gives an overview of a larger number of anthroponyms, focusing on translation techniques used for various name categories.

Addresses to students pursuing translation studies and also to those persons who are interested in semantics and translation for whatever other reasons. This book provides the prospective reader with a quantum of knowledge in the two areas.

Miscommunication has always intrigued researchers in and outside linguistics. This book takes a different perspective from what has been proposed so far and postulates a case for intercultural miscommunication as a linguistically-based phenomenon in various intercultural milieus.

English Contrastive Studies

Constitutes papers presented at the International Conference on Foreign Influences on Medieval English held in Warsaw on 12-13 December 2009 and organized by the School of English at the Warsaw Division of the Academy of Management in Lodz (Wyzsza Szkola Przedsiebiorczosci i Zarzadzania).

Suitable for linguists, educators, students and anyone interested in the subject, this book presents popular slang names for North American cities.