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.

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.

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

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.