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Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain (1924): A questioning of health, rationality, and the romantic tradition
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)Thomas Mann’s (1875–1955) epic novel The Magic Mountain (1924/1996) turns upside down the conventional axiology of the experiential categories of health and rationality, as well as of the romantic idea of a Bildungsreise ... -
Form and meaning in cognitive morphology
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)The paper applies Ronald Langacker’s conception of Baseline/Elaboration (B/E-organisation) to derivative morphology. It is claimed that the B/E approach to linguistic structure, according to which “structure and function ... -
Aspectual pair, aspectual triplet, aspectual cluster: what is the unit of the category of aspect and can the answer be tested experimentally?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)This paper is an attempt to show that the problem of identifying the unit of the category of Russian aspect indicates the explanatory and predictive potential of an aspectological theory. We introduce a wider scientific ... -
Categorization of directional motion verbs
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)This study presents a proposal of categorization of directional motion verbs, i.e. ones whose lexical semantics specifies a direction of motion, even without an overt directional complementation. The categorization proposed ... -
The categories of grammar in resource-books of English for advanced learners
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)The courses of morphology and syntax of the English language as linguistic disciplines studied at university level elaborate on a systematic description of the language, logically categorising the individual items of the ... -
Multi Facet Rasch Analysis in tests of oral production
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)The difficulty in constructing tests of oral production lies with the rating schemes and assessment frameworks, their construction and validation and subsequently application. This paper advocates extensive use of numerical ... -
Ernest Hemingway’s short story Cat in the rain (1925): A prototype of narrative and emotion
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)Ernest Hemingway’s (1899–1961) short story “Cat in the rain” (1925/1953) describes the weakening of emotional bond between an American couple living in Italy and the gradual emergence of romantic affection between the wife ... -
An overview of ESP and EAP in language pedagogy
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)The English language is widely used in educational institutes around the world, and especially in Higher Education. This has led to the development of English for Academic Purposes (EAP), a new branch within the field of ... -
Perception and the nature of the phoneme
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)Traditional interpretations of the phoneme have viewed it either in terms of physical properties (Jones, 1944b), psychological reality (Sapir, 1933, cf. Jaeger, 1980), or function, typically to serve in opposition to other ... -
The identity category: a product and/or a process
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)The article focuses on the category of identity and aims to compare and contrast in a cursory manner two major approaches to the issue, namely the one that views identity as a product of the rational mind and the other ... -
Insights on the nature of language from the study of gesture units
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)Gesture categories and gesture units are characterized according to both formal and functional criteria. The resultant functional types fall along a continuum according to the degree to which their tokens have conventionalized ... -
Ranking for cognitive salience of events and coding them into a sentence format
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)This article discusses the use of different syntactic options in the construal of events. The examples selected for presentation and analysis come from a study by Badio (2014). This work understood construal to be ... -
Evaluation in EFL written stories
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)The structure of oral narratives, as studied by Labov & Waletzky (1967) involves an abstract, orientation, complicating action, resolution, evaluation and coda. Narratives are presented on TV and radio news, newspapers as ... -
Introduction
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The patient was admitted…, operated… and recovered quickly… – a narrative study of medical events in the abstract section of English case reports from otolaryngology
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)This article constitutes a study of the narrative included in the abstract section in case reports from a professional medical journal from otolaryngology. The rationale behind this analysis is that the abstract section ... -
Conflict scenario emotion events in reality television: a cross-cultural perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)The present paper provides an analysis of an Indian female contestant and a British female contestant involved in an Emotion Event, conflict scenario in Celebrity Big Brother, a British reality television show that was ... -
“Beings of secondary order”: Framing and intertextuality as narrative tools in A.S. Byatt’s “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)Antonia Susan Byatt’s long-standing concern with the interaction between reality and art manifests in many of her texts. For instance, her most widely acclaimed novel, Possession, examines the postmodern preoccupation with ... -
Use of stereotypical social gender roles in an L2 narrative construal task by advanced, Polish learners of English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)The article presents a study of the process of comprehension of an input joke and its subsequent retelling in writing by Polish advanced students (n=36) of English as a foreign language. The research question was whether ... -
A fictional dialogue against selected linguistic outlooks on spoken language and conversation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)This work provides an analysis of the fictional dialogue of the first chapter of Faith, a novel by the British writer and novelist, Lesley Pearse. The choice of the novel itself is not considered key. It is most important ... -
Preface
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