{"product_id":"empirical-methods-in-language-studies-9783631656648","title":"Empirical Methods in Language Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: 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: \u003ci\u003eNo problem or no problems?\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eplay\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003emanner\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eAmsterdam\u003c\/i\u003e: 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.","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51044292297047,"sku":"9783631656648","price":59.31,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783631656648.jpg?v=1750961162","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/empirical-methods-in-language-studies-9783631656648","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}