Description
Book Synopsis«Empirical Methods in Language Studies» presents 22 papers employing a broad range of empirical methods in the analysis of various aspects of language and communication. The individual texts offer contributions to the description of conceptual strategies, syntax, semantics, non-verbal communication, language learning, discourse, and literature.
Table of ContentsContents: Janusz Badio: Events and sentences in story construal of English-native and Polish-foreign language users: experimental methodology and outcomes – Daniel Karczewski: Factors determining genericity in the light of experimental studies of generics – Ida Stria: Linguistic worldview of esperanto: a questionnaire method – Krzysztof Kosecki: Comprehension of metaphor-based non-literality in signed languages by the hearing persons – Agnieszka Stępkowska: Second language acquisition in the canton of Zurich: the Swiss are fond of English – Valérie Bourdier/Agnès Leroux:
No problem or no problems? Special problems raised by the reference to absence in the sequences no+N-O and no+N-s – Dylan Glynn: The socio-cultural conceptualisation of femininity: corpus evidence for cognitive models – Karolina Krawczak: Negative self-evaluative emotions from a cross-cultural perspective: A case of «shame» and «guilt» in English and Polish – Naoki Nakamata: A categorization of conditional Expressions in Japanese: insights from a lexical approach – Piotr Twardzisz: Identifying and measuring personification in journalistic discourse – Jarosław Wiliński: A covarying collexeme analysis of the verb
play and the
manner adjunct in the domain of soccer – Jacek Tadeusz Waliński: Time in structuring fictive motion: an empirical corpus-based study – Barbara Konat/Konrad Juszczyk: Multimodal communication in career coaching sessions: lexical and gestural corpus study – Victoria Kamasa: Research design in corpus-supported critical discourse analysis – Eva Malková: Ellipsis and sentence fragments in Ian McEwan’s
Amsterdam: their effect on meaning – Olga Berdina: Meaning change of gradual verbs denoting colour in English – Iryna V. Malynovska: «Shuttle» methods in the analysis of metaphor in English philosophical discourse – Mirosław Bańko: Iconic effects in loanword adaptation – Katarzyna Stadnik: Chaucer’s selected narratives: through the looking-glass of medieval imagery – Martin Hinton: Alternatives to intuition in linguistics research – Anna Bączkowska: Compliments in film subtitles: a pragmatic and cognitive study of translations from English into Polish – Natalya Savoiskaya: Specific universals: a comparative analysis of subject of evaluation construal.
