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Reconsidering the Reliance on Functional Load: The Role of Phonetic Distance in Predicting L2 Segmental Substitutions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)Much research agrees that Functional Load (FL), i.e., the extent to which a phoneme pair distinguishes between different words in a language, is a useful feature to consider in prioritizing phoneme pairs for pronunciation ... -
The Metaphorical Imagery in Polish Legal Language: The Polish Civil Code
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)The present paper comments on the use of metaphorical imagery in The Polish Civil Code The theoretical background for analysis is cognitive linguistics in the tradition of researchers such as George Lakoff, Mark Turner, ... -
Chunking a Transcription of a Lecture to Help Students at EAP Courses Improve their Listening Comprehension Skill(S)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)Pre-sessional EAP courses in the UK welcome international students seeking admission to British universities. The official requirement for English language proficiency is typically determined by a student’s scores in the ... -
The Polysemy of Beside: The Correlation between TR and LM Syntactic Elaborations and Meaning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)The paper contributes to the discussion of the polysemy of spatial prepositions looking at the conceptual structure of the preposition beside. Introducing the syntactic criterion to the process of trajector/landmark ... -
Linguistic functions and indirect speech acts in tobacco products health warnings
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)The study incorporates the theory of linguistic functions (Jakobson 1960) and speech act theory (Austin 1962) to analyse the differences and similarities of the language used to produce health warning signs on tobacco-related ... -
Creativity in Meaning Construction and Translation – A Cognitive Perspective on the Humurous Language Used by Big Friendly Giant in Roald Dahl’s the BFG in its English, Polish and Portuguese Versions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)The paper explains how our mind creates a meaning in a wordplay. The model of mental maps (Author, 2020) based on the theory of conceptual blending (Fauconnier,1997, Fauconnier & Turner, 2002) and the geneplore model based ... -
“Can we do it Next Year?” The Impact of the Flipped Classroom Method on EFL Learning Performance
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)The flipped classroom (FC) method has been extensively adopted in STEM disciplines at the university level and garnered favorable results in synchronous learning, while less focus has been directed to its effectiveness in ... -
Frequent Phraseology as Pointers to Evaluation in Judicial Opinions: A Corpus-Driven Comparative Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)Using Sketch Engine to explore two sets of data, a corpus of US Supreme Court opinions and a corpus of opinions from Poland’s Trybunał Konstytucyjny (in literal translation: Constitutional Tribunal), this paper explores ... -
The Changing Landscape of Kapampangan Vocabularies: A Diachronic Analysis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)The study examined the evolution of the Kapampangan language over time through the use of historical texts, dictionaries, and linguistic tools, such as interview guides and word lists. Data were taken from 62 informants ... -
Constructing Change or Status Quo. An Analysis of Transitivity Choices in Polish Newspaper Headlines
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)This paper falls into the realm of critical discourse studies by exploring the relationship between particular discourse structures and their meaning as set against a particular socio-political context. To do that it takes ... -
Deep Listening: Transcribing Videos to Enhance Learners’ FL Listening Skills
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)Deep listening is an educational approach that involves a high degree of concertation to decode a message. Transcribing is one of the most usual activities within this approach. This research aims to assess the efficiency ... -
Students' Attitudes and Perceptions towards Learning EAP Courses during Emergency Remote Teaching: Insights and Implications
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic in the middle of the spring 2020 semester, many high education institutions were forced to move from face-to-face (FTF) teaching to remote instruction. The purpose of this study ... -
Selected Acoustic Features of the Welsh Lateral Fricative /ɫ/
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)The Welsh language exhibits a number of features uncommon from a cross-linguistic point of view, one of which is a relatively large number of fricative phonemes. This paper analyses selected acoustic features of the Welsh ... -
Exploring the Status of Voiceless Labiovelar Fricative /ʍ/ in Contemporary American English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)The study attempts to investigate the current status of the voiceless labiovelar fricative /ʍ/ in American English with reference to selected sociolinguistic variables, such as age, regional background, formality of the ... -
The Frames of Romance Scamming
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)This paper studies love fraud or romance scamming as scripted communication within a commercial transaction frame. The main participants are the seller (fraudster), buyer (victim), goods (long-term romantic relationship), ... -
Autobiograficzne poradniki i poradnikowe teksty autobiograficzne — o „zmąconych” wariantach „niebinarnej” prozy non-fiction
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024)The aim of this article is to present a variant of nonbinary non-fiction prose and the genological matter related to it. Recently, the topic of nonbinary gender identities has become increasingly popular, and more and more ... -
„Misterium naszej miłości” — refleksy dyskursu medycznego w nieheteronormatywnej prozie pierwszej połowy XX wieku
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024)The paper begins with a brief sketch on the most important figures and themes in German sexological studies (Ulrichs, Weininger, Krafft-Ebing, Hirschfeld) in the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th ... -
Płeć reportażu herstorycznego. Wprowadzenie w problematykę gatunku
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024)The subject of the article is herstorical reportage as a kind of unconventional approach to the past and one of the manifestations of the herstorical turn in the Polish humanities and contemporary literary field. The author ... -
Płeć jako dzieło sceniczne non-fiction. „Dobrze ułożony młodzieniec” Jolanty Janiczak i Wiktora Rubina (studium przypadku)
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024)The Well-Behaved Young Man from Teatr Nowy in Łódź is an example of radical artistic practice in an institutional theatre, which involves performing the experience of a transsexual person by another transsexual person. The ... -
Gender non-fiction — uwagi wstępne
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024)The introduction to the thematic issue of “The Problems of Literary Genres. Forms of Culture and Theory,” focuses on gender-oriented interpretation of non-fiction literature (reportage, biography, autobiography, essay, ...