University of Silesia Institute of English VARIOUS DIMENSIONS OF

University of Silesia Institute of English VARIOUS DIMENSIONS OF

University of Silesia
Institute of English
VARIOUS DIMENSIONS OF CONTRASTIVE STUDIES
Between Literal Language and Figurative Meaning
Katowice 24-25 October 2016
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Monday, 24 October 2016
9.00 Conference Opening – dr hab. Adam Wojtaszek (University of Silesia)
9.15 Plenary lecture – Prof. dr María de los Ángeles Gómez Gonzáles (University of Santiago de Compostella, Spain)
Exploring Tag Questions in English, Spanish and Portuguese
Chair: Adam Wojtaszek
10.00 Discussion
10.15 Coffee break
10.45 – 12.45 Presentations in sections
Section A
Room A (Ground Floor)
Cognitive Linguistics
Chair: Konrad Szcześniak
Section B
Room B (Ground Floor)
Pragmatics/Translation Studies
Chair: Marcin Kuczok
Section C
Room C (Second Floor)
Applied Linguistics
Chair: Ireneusz Kida
10.45 Cristina Lastres López
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11.15 Conditionals across languages: A corpus-based
study of if-clauses in English and their Spanish
and French equivalents
Agata Rozumko
Urszula Wieczorek
Semantic and pragmatic meanings of discourse
particles: the case of indeed and its Polish equivalents
Some remarks on teaching contrastive liguistics to
students of English philology – teacher’s
experience
11.15 Iwona Kokorniak & Izabella Chojnacka
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11.45 Expressing futurity in English and Polish: A
search for common ground
Agnieszka Solska
Diana Carrascal
A lesser trope or a lofty rhetorical device? The
figurative dimension (and the lack thereof) in English
puns, Chinese shuanguan and Polish kalambury
The English null object production of ChineseEnglish bilinguals: interlinguistic influence or
bilingual effect?
11.45 Maria Brenda
Michał Organ
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12.15 Mechanisms behind figurative sense extensions Cultural transplantation in the analysis of humour in
of at and near/next to
Polish official and unauthorised translations of the
adult animated sitcom Family Guy
Elga Cremades
12.15 Agnieszka Grząśko
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12.45 On the language of intimacy: Cognitive
approach to selected terms of endearment
Issa Kanté
Ken Sasahara
A contrastive study of conceptual prominence and
anaphora in referential metonymy in English and
French
Sentence closing pattern in Upper Sorbian with
contrast to German
Some reflections on the language contact in
Catalonia: a case study based on secondary school
students
12.45 Lunch break
14.00 Plenary lecture – Dr hab. Ewa Bogdanowska-Jakubowska (University of Silesia, Katowice)
A message from the experienced and successful to the young in American culture: A critical analysis of selected commencement speeches
Chair: Piotr Mamet
14.45 Discussion
15.00 – 16.30 Presentations in sections
Section A
Room A
Pragmatics
Chair: Paulina Biały
Section B
Room B
Applied Linguistics
Chair: Marcin Kuczok
Section C
Room C
Metaphor
Chair: Łukasz Matusz
15.00 Monika Zięba-Plebankiewicz
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15.30 Impoliteness in English and Polish CMC
Masahiko Nose
Łukasz Barciński
15.30 Kateryna Bondarenko
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16.00 Gender peculiarities rendered in standard and
slang
Anna Wyrwa
Jarosław Wiliński
Switching from the Polish to English worldview? A
contrastive analysis of Polish and English metaphors
in EU debates
War metaphors in business and politics:
Distinctive-metaphostruction analysis
A contrastive study of future tenses in the languages of Beyond the literal and the figurative – translation
Papua New Guinea
of metaphors in surrealist poetry and postmodern
fiction
16.00 Adam Pluszczyk
Katarzyna Rudkiewicz
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16.30 The role of figurative language in spoken
Applying cognitive methodologies in contrastive
discourse based on Polish and American movies research. Metaphorical extensions as the motivation
for the abstract meanings of for and its Polish
counterparts
Artur Świątek
The use of metaphors in Polish, British and
American political discourse
16.30 Coffee break
17.00 Plenary lecture – Prof. AJD dr hab. Piotr Mamet (Jan Długosz University, Częstochowa)
Metaphors of debt, borrowing and lending – a cognitive study based on A Compendium of Banking Terms by Robert Patterson
Chair: Ewa Bogdanowska-Jakubowska
17.45 Discussion
19.00 Conference dinner: Novotel Katowice Centrum hotel
Tuesday, 25 October 2016
9.00 Plenary lecture – Prof. KUL dr hab. Anna Malicka-Kleparska (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
Some uses of language corpora in language teaching and linguistic research
Chair: Bożena Cetnarowska
9.45 Discussion
10.00 Coffee break
10.30 – 12.30 Presentations in sections
Section A
Room A
Syntax
Chair: Adam Pluszczyk
Section B
Room B
Cultural Linguistics
Chair: Marcin Zabawa
Section C
Room C
Semantics/Morphology
Chair: Agnieszka Solska
10.30 Joanna Paszenda
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11.00 Between possessional transfer and caused
motion: modifications of the ditransitive
construction in English and Polish
Anna Dziama
Bożena Cetnarowska
Schlemiel as a metaphor: A contrastive analysis of a
‘born loser’ concept in Yiddish and American English
Qualitative readings of selected denominal
adjectives in Polish and English
11.00 Konrad Szcześniak
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11.30 I’ve got nothing to say. Convergence of form
and function in the pronoun-infinitive
construction
Bożena Kochman-Haładyj
Krzysztof Kosecki
Contrastive analysis of religiosity in American and
Polish proverbs from a linguo-cultural perspective
Figurative meaning in phonic and signed
communication: A (nearly) perfect fit?
11.30 Wiktor Pskit
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12.00 The syntax of idioms: A phase-based
perspective on verbal and nominal idioms
Kamila Gęsikowska, Krystyna Kopecka, Marcin
Kuczok, Marek Kulisz, Jolanta Szarlej, Kamilla
Termińska, Marta Zając & Anna Zaczkowska
Łukasz Matusz
12.00 Ewa Konieczna
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12.30 Metaphor-framed satellites within and beyond
satellite-framed languages
Ireneusz Kida
The body in Biblical Hebrew
On dogs, cows and donkeys: the use of animal
metaphors in linguistic insults
Kamil Krakowiecki
A contrastive analysis of Polish and Quechua in search Latinization of selected Swiss toponyms:
of similarities
Morphological aspects
12.30 Conference Closing
12.45 Lunch break
14.00 Social event: a tour of the newly opened Museum of Silesia in Katowice