Research in Language (2023) vol. 21 nr 2

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  • The Pronunciation of the Capital of Ukraine in English-Speaking Media 

    Bikelienė, Lina (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)
    Speaker identity is one of the factors that might play a role in the realisation of sounds. Previous studies have observed that phonetic variations, alongside the formation of speaker’s identity, can index political meaning. ...

  • Pro-Peace vs. Pro-War Conceptualizations in the Language of Hungarian Propaganda 

    Grygiel, Marcin (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)
    The language of propaganda can be treated as a specialist language with its own specialized terminology. It is produced by groups of variously configured propaganda experts responsible for the creation of propaganda messages, ...

  • Speech Acts and Relevance: in Search of a Dialogue 

    Witczak-Plisiecka, Iwona (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)
    This paper comments on the notion of the speech act in the tradition of J.L. Austin (1962/1975) in an attempt to assess its relevance (sic!) in a relevance-theory-based research. Relevance theory (RT) since its introduction ...

  • A Topic-Based Diachronic Account of the Polysemy of the English Verb ‘Run’ 

    Kiyama, Naoki; Shibuya, Yoshikata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)
    This study discusses the polysemy and diachronic semantic frequency shifts of the English verb run using a topic model. The increase in corpus-based research in cognitive linguistics has yielded many empirical findings on ...

  • What’s Dog Got to Do With It? Motivation Behind Denominal (Animal) Verbs 

    Egorova, Alisa; Wolf, Hans-Georg (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)
    This paper investigates the motivation behind denominal conversion of animal nouns to verbs as well as their resultant senses. Upon critical consideration of previous accounts of animal verb senses and their possible ...

  • Elaboration sites and prepositional meaning construction in English and Polish 

    Brenda, Maria (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)
    Although prepositions are relational linguistic units of modest sizes, they can contribute a variety of different meanings to the constructions they are found in. The paper looks into the notion of e-site, which allows for ...