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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 ... -
Key Components of Musical Discourse Analysis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-03-11)Musical discourse analysis is an interdisciplinary study which is incomplete without consideration of relevant social, linguistic, psychological, visual, gestural, ritual, technical, historical and musicological aspects. ... -
L1 Vowels of Multilinguals: The Applicability of SLM in Multilingualism
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)Although L1 has been treated as a rigid system which is more likely to act as a sender than a receiver of CLI in bilinguals and multilinguals, recent studies have provided some evidence of the influence of both L2 and L3 ... -
L2 Accentedness and Language Self-Esteem in Foreign Language Learning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-29)Accentedness is associated with listeners’ evaluative judgements, which might affect an L2 speaker’s construction of an image about linguistic self-worth and competence, described as language (L2) self-esteem. This line ... -
Language and Argument: a Review of the Field
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-03-30)This paper has a dual purpose: it both seeks to introduce the other works in this issue by illustrating how they are related to the field of argumentation as a whole, and to make clear the tremendous range of research ... -
Language and Music: Designing a Course at an Academic Level
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-02-09)The parallels that are present between language and music, together with popular beliefs that musicality may be a factor enhancing language learning, especially with regard to pronunciation, prompted the idea of designing ... -
Language Experience and Phonetic Training as Factors Influencing Timing Organisation in Polish Learners of English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-06-26)The paper investigates the dynamics of speech rhythm in Polish learners of English and, specifically, how rhythm measurements revealing durational characteristics of vocalic and consonantal intervals through the measures ... -
Language Proficiency and Sonorant Devoicing in English Plosive-Sonorant Clusters
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)This article explores the timing of phonetic voicing in plosive-sonorant clusters in English. VOT was measured in two groups of Czech learners with different proficiency levels and a native English control group. The ... -
Learner Perspective on English Pronunciation Teaching in an EFL Context
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-05-04)On the basis of the findings, the learners do not seem to have aspirations to native-like pronunciation, but rather aim at achieving intelligible and fluent speech. Only few reported an accent preference (British or ... -
Legal Terminology and Lesser Used Languages: The Case of Mòcheno
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011-06-17)Since 2003 the Institute for Specialised Communication and Multilingualism of the European Academy of Bolzano (EURAC) offers education courses in legal terminology work, coupled with introductions in related/complementary ... -
Lexicogrammatical Features in Japanese English: A Study of Five Speakers
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-11-16)Japanese English (JE) refers to the English spoken by Japanese citizens. This paper characterizes JE by examining its lexicogrammatical features produced by five speakers participating in experimental recordings. Drawing ... -
LIKE IN SIMILES – A RELEVANCE-THEORETIC VIEW
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-02-13)The paper examines the meaning of like as used in similes in the light of relevance theory. Similes, even though superficially indistinguishable from literal comparisons, are found to be closer to metaphors. Therefore, it ... -
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 ... -
The Lisbon Treaty and the British Press a Corpus-Based Contrastive Analysis of Evaluation Resources
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Making English a New Latin
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2010-10-19)The paper looks at various aspects of the so-called Latin-English analogy and particularly at the ways in which English may share the fate of Latin in ultimately becoming a victim of its own success. A critical factor in ... -
Marriage, Liberty and Constitution: a Corpusassisted Study of Value-Laden Words in Legal Argumentation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-03-30)This paper investigates the interplay between judicial argumentation and evaluative or emotive language identified in two US Supreme Court landmark cases on the right of same-sex couples to marry. The analysis of both ... -
The Meaning of “Nasal Grunts” in the Necte Corpus. A Preliminary Perceptual Investigation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)This paper reports a perceptual evaluation of the meanings conveyed by the acoustic components of “nasal grunts” (Chlebowski and Ballier 2015), i.e., non-lexical conversational sounds realised with a nasal feature (e.g. ... -
Measuring Syntactic Complexity in Spoken and Written Learner Language: Comparing the Incomparable?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-06-15)Spoken and written language are two modes of language. When learners aim at higher skill levels, the expected outcome of successful second language learning is usually to become a fluent speaker and writer who can produce ... -
Measuring vowel duration variability in native English speakers and polish learners
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)This paper presents a set of simple statistical measures that illustrate the difference between native English speakers and Polish learners of English in varying the length of vocalic segments in read speech. Relative vowel ... -
Metadiscourse in Academic Written and Spoken English: A Comparative Corpus-Based Inquiry
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)This paper reports on a comparative study performed in the field of Corpus Linguistics. The objective of the research was to analyze the distributional pattern of interactive and interactional metadiscourse features in two ...