RSS 1.0Research in Language (2023) vol. 21 nr 1
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The interface of real world, lexicalization and conceptualization on the example of the Contact Sense of the German preposition an (on, at) and its Polish Spanish and English counterparts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-21)The paper takes up the issue of creating meanings, focusing the dynamic relation between lexicalization and conceptualization on the example of prepositions. By providing a systematic view of the specific meanings of the ... -
Examining Temporal Structure of Speech with a Local Articulation Rate Metric
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-21)The primary goal of our study is to propose a method of calculating and visualising local articulation rate for research in temporal structure of speech. The method builds on proportional durations of vowels and consonants ... -
Exploring Pitch Accent as an Element of Fluency in L2 English Academic Presentations – a Proficiency-based Sampling Report
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-21)The study explores the effectiveness of raising prosodic awareness in teaching academic presentations to a mixed proficiency group of adult Polish students majoring in English from the perspective of prosody as well as ... -
Julian of Norwich’s a Revelation of Love: A Grounded Cognition Approach to a Late Medieval Text
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-21)Julian of Norwich was a late medieval anchoress and writer, whose work, The Showings, is known for its vivid imagery and bodily resonance it prompts in the reader. The paper identifies a gap in research on the embodied ... -
Conceptual Metaphors in Visual Language The Graphic Novel City of Glass
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-21)The paper explores the use and impact of conceptual metaphors in the graphic novel City of Glass published by Paul Auster as a free-standing story in 1985. Two years later Auster turned it into the first part of The New ... -
Liquid Fear: Bauman’s Metaphorical Insights in Relation to Covid-19 Fear Metaphors
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-21)In this study I attempt to demonstrate how Zygmunt Bauman’s insights published in his book entitled Liquid Fear (2006) benefit the cognitive study of the emotion of fear by drawing correspondences between Bauman’s liquid ...