Research in Language: Recent submissions
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PERFORMING ANAPHORA IN MODERN GREEK: A NEO-GRICEAN PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-02-13)The paper addresses the problem of interpreting anaphoric NPs in Modern Greek. It includes a proposal of a novel analysis based on the systematic interaction of the neo- Gricean pragmatic principles of communication, which ... -
A CONCEPT OF GENERAL MEANING: SELECTED THEORIES IN COMPARISON TO SELECTED SEMANTIC AND PRAGMATIC THEORIES
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-02-13)The paper discusses a concept of general meaning with reference to various relevant semantic and pragmatic theories. It includes references to Slavic axiological semantics (e.g. Krzeszowski (1997); Puzynina (1992)), ... -
ELLIPSIS AS A MARKER OF INTERACTION IN SPOKEN DISCOURSE
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-02-13)In this article, we discuss strategies for interaction in spoken discourse, focusing on ellipsis phenomena in English. The data comes from the VOICE corpus of English as a Lingua Franca, and we analyse education data in ... -
BIRACIAL – BLACK? A SURVEY OF LANGUAGE USE AND LANGUAGE ATTITUDES IN POLAND AND GERMANY
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-02-13)The paper deals with the construction of race from the perspective of cognitive sociolinguistics. The focus is upon the perception of mixed-race people of black and white heritage in Poland and Germany compared to the USA, ... -
THE ROLE OF SYNTACTIC STYLISTIC MEANS IN EXPRESSING THE EMOTION TERM LOVE
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-02-13)Love as one of important feelings in human emotional, cognitive and social life has always attracted attention of the researchers: psychologists, linguists, philosophers, ethnologists, etc. We may speak about extralinguistic ... -
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 ... -
DISCOURSE-DRIVEN MEANING CONSTRUCTION IN NEOSEMANTIC NOUN-TO-VERB CONVERSIONS [MEANING CONSTRUCTION IN NOUN-TO-VERB CONVERSIONS]
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-01-25)Neosemantic noun-to-verb conversions such as beer → to beer, door → to door, pink → to pink, etc., constitute a particularly interesting field of study for Cognitive Linguistics in that they call for a discourse-guided and ... -
RESEARCHING MEANING, CONTEXT AND COGNITION EDITORIAL TO RIL SPECIAL ISSUE
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THE PRAGMATICS OF EMOTIONS IN INTERLINGUISTIC HEALTHCARE SETTINGS
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-01-25)The main question addressed here is: what types of interpreters’ actions cut out, or make relevant, migrant patients’ emotions? Our data is based on a corpus of 300 interlinguistic medical interactions in Arabic, Mandarin ... -
SENTENCE ADVERBIALS AND EVIDENTIALITY
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-01-25)The paper deals with expressions of evidence (originating in perception, inference or reported information) and their role in sentence/utterance pragmatic modification. It concentrates on the role of the so-called sentence ... -
VERBAL WARFARE IN THE POLISH MEDIA: AN ANALYSIS OF CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-01-25)The outcome of the analyses of spoken and written data reveals that political, social and economic antagonisms are well fed by language which highlights dichotomies and depicts ‘the others’ as the source of all evil. The ... -
(NON)-DETERMINING THE ORIGINAL SPEAKER: REPORTATIVE PARTICLES VERSUS VERBS
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-01-25)This work argues that the Basque reportative particle omen contributes to the propositional contents of the utterance, and it is not an illocutionary force indicator, contrary to what seems to be suggested by the standard ... -
“ENERGY INDEPENDENCE”: PRESIDENT OBAMA’S RHETORIC OF A SUCCESS STORY
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Roadrunners and Eagles
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-05-04)Our previous research on perception of gated casual English by university students suggests that ceteris paribus, Polish students are much more accurate than Greeks. A recent pilot study of casually-spoken Polish leads us ... -
Editorial To RIL 11.1
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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 ... -
Phonetic Imitation of Vowel Duration in L2 Speech
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-05-04)This paper reports the results of a pilot study concerned with phonetic imitation in the speech of Polish learners of English. The purpose of the study was to investigate whether native speakers of Polish imitate the length ... -
Spectral Characteristics of Schwa in Czech Accented English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-05-04)The English central mid lax vowel (i.e., schwa) often contributes considerably to the sound differences between native and non-native speech. Many foreign speakers of English fail to reduce certain underlying vowels to ... -
Immediate and Distracted Imitation in Second-Language Speech: Unreleased Plosives in English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-05-04)The paper investigates immediate and distracted imitation in second-language speech using unreleased plosives. Unreleased plosives are fairly frequently found in English sequences of two stops. Polish, on the other hand, ... -
French Learners of L2 English: Intonation Boundaries and the Marking of Lexical Stress
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-05-04)To test my hypothesis, I collected passages of read speech by thirteen upper intermediate/advanced French learners of English along with the same passage read by ten native English speakers. Two trisyllabics carrying primary ...