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Contacts and Contrasts in Cultures and Languages

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Editors:
  1. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk

    1. Faculty of Philology, State University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Konin, Poland

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  • Goes beyond the “usual”, compartmentalized linguistic research and explores the phenomena of contact and contrasts between languages and cultures in different contexts
  • Provides rich empirical findings on social and cognitive phenomena with regard to contact-situated contrastive studies and media discourses
  • Interdisciplinary in nature, it sheds new light on the phenomena of languages and cultures from the perspective of discourse-based cognitive approaches, exemplified by authentic materials

Part of the book series: Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLLT)

Part of the book sub series: Issues in Literature and Culture (ILC)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Communication and Conceptual Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. I Am Not a Gobi Girl! Observations on Cultural Similarities and Differences Based on Four Years of Fulbright Fellowships in Poland, Latvia, and Outer Mongolia

      • David Pichaske
      Pages 3-18

    3. Meaning, Perception, and Culture in International Business Discourse: A Theoretical Perspective of Potential Conflicts

      • Michael B. Hinner
      Pages 19-34

    4. Expressing Modality in Commercial Agreements and Contracts—An Analysis of Polish-English Parallel Texts

      • Aneta Dłutek
      Pages 35-46

    5. Culture Diversity in G. Hofstede’s Model with Reference to English—Arabic Proverbs

      • Awadh G. Ba-awaidhan
      Pages 47-63

    6. Ernest Hemingway’s “Mr. and Mrs. Elliot”: A Case of Inversion of the Romantic Philosophy of Love

      • Krzysztof Kosecki
      Pages 65-74

    7. (Un)Successful Communication: Sex-Based Differences and Contrasts

      • Joanna Kłosowska
      Pages 75-83

    8. Similarities and Contrasts in Multisensory Metaphorical Conceptualisations of Memories in Polish and English

      • Marcin Trojszczak
      Pages 85-101

    9. Metaphors of Pride in Polish and English—A Corpus-Based Study

      • Agata Wężyk
      Pages 103-117

  3. Languages in Contact

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. Blending In: Hybridity, Identity and Creolization

      • Kathryn M. Hudson
      Pages 121-133

    3. The Presence of Loanwords of Nahuatl Origin in the Press of Veracruz, Mexico

      • Ingrid Petkova
      Pages 135-144

  4. Contacts and Contrasts in Media Discourse

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. Contrasting News Values in Newspaper Articles and Social Media: A Discursive Approach to the US Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage

      • Marco Venuti, Antonio Fruttaldo
      Pages 147-161

    3. A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of “Migrants” and “Migration” in the British Tabloids and Quality Press

      • Anna Bączkowska
      Pages 163-181

    4. Linguistic Differences in Headlines: Comparison Between Korean and American Newspapers

      • Minhyung Park
      Pages 183-192

    5. Wellbeing and Collective Identity in Polish and English Contexts

      • Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Paul A. Wilson
      Pages 193-219

    6. The Phenomenon of Global English in the World of Interactive Online Entertainment

      • Joanna Kapica-Curzytek, Małgorzata Karczewska, Richard Sharp
      Pages 221-232
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About this book

This volume provides descriptions and interpretations of social and cognitive phenomena as well as processes that emerge at the interface of languages and cultures in the context of contrastive and contact linguistics and media discourse. Different contexts are explored with rich empirical findings and authentic exemplifying materials. The book includes fifteen papers, divided into three parts. Part 1 addresses conceptual reflection on languages and cultures in contact and contrast, while Part 2 focuses on contact linguistics and borrowing. Part 3 discusses cultural and linguistic aspects of media discourses.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Philology, State University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Konin, Poland

    Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk

About the editor

Dr. habil. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk is a full professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the State University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Poland and head of the Department of Research in Language, Literature and Translation. She previously served for many years as head of the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Lodz, Poland. She is the author or editor of numerous books and papers on cognitive and corpus linguistics, collaborative knowledge acquisition and translation. She is a recipient of Polish Academy of Sciences awards, was selected as an Honorary Professor in Linguistics and Modern English Language at the University of Lancaster, UK, and has been invited to read papers at conferences and give workshops at various European, American and Asian universities.

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