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Subject(s)

• English language—Variation—History [Browse]
• Languages in contact—History [Browse]
• Linguistic change—History [Browse]

Editor

• Kiełtyka, Robert [Browse]
• Uberman, Agnieszka [Browse]

Series

• Studies in linguistics, anglophone literatures and cultures ; Vol. 4. [More in this series]
• Studies in linguistics, anglophone literatures and cultures ; Vol. 4 [More in this series]

Summary note

This volume presents a collection of interdisciplinary papers pertaining to the most thought-provoking problems in the areas of both theoretical and applied linguistics. The contributors focus on contemporary developments in morphological, semantic and pragmatic theorizing. The contributions are also devoted to various aspects of the methodology of teaching English as well as some intricacies of translation.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Latinisms in substandard language / Ada Böhmerová
• From man to machine: in search of regularity in semasiological development of professional/occupational names / Piotr Cymbalista
• Conceptual blending in Virgina Woolf's Lappin and lapinova: identity, integration, imagination / Yuliya Davydyuk
• London's linguistic capital in urban visual signs / Guntars Dreijers
• Verbal zoosemy revisited / Robert Kiełtyka
• The semantics of dog revisited in search of phraseologically embedded spectral zoometaphors / Grzegorz A. Kleparski
• On dagos, limeys and yankees: semantiv evolution of attributive ethnonyms / Marcin Kudła
• Tracing common-denominator semantics: in-between substantiated and spectral senses / Przemysław Łozowski
• The analysis of selected swearwords: their meaning, use and functions in various contexts / Adam Pluszczyk, Artur Świa̜tek
• The colour of endurance: figurative semantics of green / Agniezka Uberman
• Qualification and traceability of prepositional meanings in English legal texts / Edyta Wie̜cławska
• Abstract nouns with evaluative meaning: semantics and structure / Anastasiia Yeromina
• Translation quality assessment: cultural and linguistic background / Vita Balama
• Plaisir-asation in the Polish translation of Gravity's rainbow by Thomas Pynchon / Łukasz Barciński
• What is behind the compiling of a dictionary for a bilingual user? / Magdaléna Bilá, Alena Kačmárová, Ingrida Vaňková
• Students' self-generated questions in reciprocal reading tasks in L1/L2 settings / Anna Kiszczak
• Instructional designing and modelling in virtual foreign language learning / Robert Oliwa
• Marginalisation of vulgar language in audio-visual translation / Michał Organ
• When languages interfere too much: on interference and negative transfer in translation / Karolina Puchała-Ladzińska
• Development of early literacy skills in EFL: problems and solutions / Barbara Struk, Halina Chodkiewicz.

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ISBN

• 9783631676257 ((hardback))
• 3631676255 ((hardback))

LCCN

2016045745

OCLC

966610108

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