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Contacts and Contrasts in Cultures and Languages, 1st ed. 2019
Issues in Literature and Culture Series
Coordinator: Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk Barbara
Language: EnglishSubjects for Contacts and Contrasts in Cultures and Languages:
232 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Hardback
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Part 1 Communication and Conceptual systems
1. David Pichaske (Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall, Minnesota, U. S. A 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
2. Joanna Kłosowska (University of Warsaw) (Un)successful communication: Sex-based differences and contrasts
3. Michael B. Hinner (TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany) Meaning, Perception, and Culture in International Business Discourse: A Theoretical Analysis of Potential Conflicts
4. Aneta Dłutek (State University of Applied Sciences in Plock) Expressing modality in commercial agreements and contracts – the analysis of Polish-English parallel texts
5. Awadh G. Baawaidhan Culture Diversity in English – Arabic Proverbs (University of Lodz)
6. Krzysztof Kosecki (University of Lodz) Ernest Hemingway’s “Mr. and Mrs. Elliot”: A Narrative of a Failed Romance
7. Marcin Trojszczak(State University of Applied Sciences in Konin) Similarities and contrasts in multisensory metaphorical conceptualisations of memories in Polish and English
8. Agata Węzyk (University of Lodz, Instytut Medycyny Pracy im. J. Nofera w Lodzi), Metaphors of pride in Polish and English – a corpus-based studyPart 2 Languages in contact
9. Kathryn Hudson (Department of Anthropology, Department of Linguistics University at Buffalo) Blending In: Hybridity, Identity and Creolization
10. Ingrid Petkova (University of Veracruz, Mexico) The Presence of Loanwords of Nahuatl Origin in the Press of Veracruz, Mexico
Part 3 Contacts and Contrasts in Media Discourse
11. Marco Venuti University of Catania & Antonio Fruttaldo University of Naples Federico II)Contrasting News Values in Newspaper Articles and Social Media: A Discursive Approach to the US Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage
12. Anna Bączkowska (Department of Journalism, New Media and Mass Communication Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz) A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of “migrants” and “migration” in the British tabloids and quality press13. Minhyung Park (Ewha Womans University, Seul) Linguistic Differences in Headlines: Comparison between Korean and American Newspapers
14. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (State University of APPLIED Sciences in Konin) & Paul A. Wilson (University of Lodz) Well-being and collective identity in cross-cultural contexts 15. Joanna Kapica-Curzytek, Małgorzata Karczewska, Richard Sharp The Phenomenon of Global English in the World of Interactive Online EntertainmentGoes 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