RSDS brochure

THE
RZESZÓW SCHOOL OF
DIACHRONIC SEMANTICS
PUBLICATIONS BROCHURE
2011
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Table of Contents
EDITORS' NOTE .................................................................................................5
PAPERS
Marta Dick-Bursztyn
THE LEXICOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION OF GRAMMAR THE
SIGNIFICANCE OF EXHAUSTIVE GRAMMATICAL INFORMATION
FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ACTIVE AND PASSIVE DICTIONARY
USE ...................................................................................................................... 9
Małgorzata Górecka-Smolińska
ON HOW PEOPLE, ANIMALS AND BIRDS OF FEATHER FLOCK
TOGETHER: THE SCOPE OF ZOOSEMY IN POLISH AND RUSSIAN ...........17
Robert Kiełtyka
A PANCHRONIC ACCOUNT OF CANINE VERBAL ZOOSEMY .................... 25
Grzegorz A. Kleparski
ON LANGUAGE-INTERNAL CAUSES OF DIACHRONIC CHANGES OF
WORD MEANING .............................................................................................. 37
Grzegorz A. Kleparski, Małgorzata Martynuska
FEMME FATALE: ON HER CULTURAL AND CONCEPTUAL POTRAYAL
IN AMERICAN FILM NOIR GENRE .................................................................. 45
Grzegorz A. Kleparski, Szymon Skóra
ON SOUND SYMBOLISM: A PILOT STUDY OF PEJORATIVE LOAD OF
SELECTED ENGLISH PHONEME-CLUSTERS ............................................... 57
Bożena Kochman-Haładyj
NEGATIVE PORTRAYAL OF FEMALE SPECIES AS EMERGING FROM
ENGLISH PROVERBS ....................................................................................... 65
Ewa Konieczna
DE-OBSCURING THE LANGUAGE: FOLK ETYMOLOGY IN MODERN
ENGLISH AND POLISH ..................................................................................... 71
Beata Kopecka
ON THE INTERLOCKING NATURE OF METAPHOR AND METONYMY:
A CASE STUDY OF BODY PARTS AND PROPER NAMES ..............................79
Marcin Kudła
ON SELECTED ASPECTS OF HUMAN OTHERNESS IN LANGUAGE:
A COGNITIVE ACCOUNT OF APPELLATIVE EXONYMS IN ENGLISH
AND POLISH ...................................................................................................... 91
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Alina Leskiv
STYLISTIC VARIATIONS: A COMPARISON AND DESCRIPTION OF
THEIR EVOLUTION .......................................................................................... 99
Marta Nowacka
THE POLISH LEARNER AND THEIR PRONUNCIATION (II):
PHONETIC KNOWLEDGE, PRIORITIES AND PREFERENCES, CHOICE
OF A MODEL, SUCCESS OR FAILURE ............................................................ 107
Dorota Osuchowska
'THE STORIES BEHIND WORDS': THE ISSUE OF ETYMOLOGISING IN
BRITISH DICTIONARIES FOR YOUNG LEARNERS ..................................... 117
Marta Pikor-Niedziałek
SOME REMARKS ON TRANSLATING FORBES ARTICLES ......................... 129
Agnieszka Uberman
ON TEACHING IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS: DRAWING ON
ETYMOLOGICAL INFORMATION IN SEARCH OF (TRUE?) MEANING ....137
Lucyna Wille
A CURRENT WOMAN RATHER THAN OTHER PLEASURES ON THE
AMERICAN RENDERING OF THE NOVEL INNE ROZKOSZE BY JERZY
PILCH .................................................................................................................. 143
REVIEWS
Pedro José Chamizo Domínguez
ON ZOOSEMY: THE STUDY OF MIDDLE ENGLISH AND EARLY MODERN
ENGLISH DOMESTICATED ANIMALS .............................................................. 153
Ewa Maryniak
MAIN TRENDS IN HISTORICAL SEMANTICS ................................................... 159
Marta Nowacka
STEVE AND EVE CAN READ TEA-LEAVES, PETER: A PRACTICAL
PRIMER TO ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION ........................................................ 165
Dorota Osuchowska
SŁOWNIK WSPÓŁCZESNY ANGIELSKO-POLSKI, POLSKO-ANGIELSKI ...... 173
Edyta Więcławska-Szymańska
INTRODUCTION TO TRANSLATION ................................................................. 179
Anna Włodarczyk-Stachurska
IN SEARCH OF THE COLLOCATIONAL VALUE OF EFL DICTIONARIES ......185
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Preface ……………………………………………………………………………................ 7
Table of abbreviations .......................................................................................................... 9
Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 11
Chapter 1: Methodological highlights in the study of semantic change .......................... 14
1.1. Logico-classificatory approach ................................................................................
1.2. Socio-historical approach .........................................................................................
1.3. Biologico-evolutionary approach .............................................................................
1.4. Psychological approach ............................................................................................
1.5. Functional and contextual approach .........................................................................
1.6. Structuralism ............................................................................................................
1.7. Field theory approach ...............................................................................................
1.8. Generative linguistics ...............................................................................................
1.9. Componential analysis .............................................................................................
1.10. Cognitive linguistics approach ...............................................................................
1.11. Pragmatic approach ................................................................................................
1.12. Synchronic approaches within historical semantics ...............................................
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Chapter 2: In search of causes of semantic change ............................................................ 62
2.1. Language-internal causes .........................................................................................
2.1.1. Grammaticalisation ........................................................................................
2.1.2. Semantic change resultant from phonemic change and sound association ....
2.1.3. Influence of foreign languages .......................................................................
2.1.4. Internal loans ..................................................................................................
2.1.5. Word-formation ..............................................................................................
2.1.6. Semantic underspecification ..........................................................................
2.1.7. Avoidance of synonymy and homonymy ......................................................
2.2. Language-external causes ........................................................................................
2.2.1. Historical causes .............................................................................................
2.2.2. Relevance of social and cultural factors .........................................................
2.2.3. Psychological factors .....................................................................................
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Chapter 3: Towards types and mechanisms of semantic change ..................................... 93
3.1. Widening of meaning ...............................................................................................
3.2. Narrowing of meaning .............................................................................................
3.3. Transposition of meaning .........................................................................................
3.3.1. Metaphor ........................................................................................................
3.3.2. Metonymy ......................................................................................................
3.4. Evaluative changes ...................................................................................................
3.5. Folk etymology ........................................................................................................
3.6. Contagion .................................................................................................................
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Chapter 4: Laws of semantic change ................................................................................... 118
Concluding remarks ............................................................................................................. 126
References .............................................................................................................................. 131
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CHAPTER 2: Semantic Development of Middle English and Early Modern English
Canine, Equine and Feline Zoosemy ..................................................................................... 89
2.0. Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 89
2.1. Conceptual Dimension APPEARANCE/PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: cob, kitling,
roil and harridan ............................................................................................................... 90
2.1.1. In Search of Parallels from Other Periods in the History of English ........................... 99
2.1.2. Towards Parallels in Other Languages: Russian, Polish, Dutch, Norwegian, Irish,
Spanish, Italian, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Hungarian and Basque ....................................... 102
2.1.3. Further Observations and Partial Conclusions .......................................................... 104
2.2. Conceptual Dimension BEHAVIOUR/CHARACTER: mule, colt, ass, dog, whelp, hound,
curtal, hilding, dogbolt, holdfast, puppy, filly, grimalkin and stray .................................... 107
2.2.1. In Search of Parallels from Other Periods in the History of English ........................... 146
2.2.2. Towards Parallels in Other Languages: Russian, Slovak, Polish, Spanish,
American-Spanish, Italian, French, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Irish, Persian,
Basque, Chinese, Hungarian, Hebrew and Yoruba ................................................ 152
2.2.3. Further Observations and Partial Conclusions .......................................................... 157
2.3. Conceptual Dimension MORALITY: bitch, cat, yaud, nag, minx, hangdog and sheepbiter ................................................................................................................................ 164
2.3.1. In Search of Parallels from Other Periods in the History of English ........................... 183
2.3.2. Towards Parallels in Other Languages: Polish, Russian, Italian, French,Spanish,
Norwegian, Basque and Hungarian .......................................................................... 185
2.3.3. Further Observations and Partial Conclusions .......................................................... 186
2.4. Conceptual Dimension CONTEMPT/OPPROBRIUM: stot, mare, gib, trundle-tail, longtail, pup, puppet, pussy, puss, horse and bob-tail .............................................................. 190
2.4.1. In Search of Parallels from Other Periods in the History of English ........................... 215
2.4.2. Parallels in Polish ..................................................................................................... 217
2.4.3. Further Observations and Partial Conclusions .......................................................... 218
2.5. Concluding Remarks........................................................................................................ 222
Conclusions .......................................................................................................................... 227
References .......................................................................................................................... 243
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Preface ……………………………………………………………………………................ 7
Typographic conventions ...................................................................................................... 10
Table of abbreviations .......................................................................................................... 11
Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 15
CHAPTER 1: Historical Semantics: Past Achievements and Modern Vistas ................ 23
1.0. Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 23
1.1. The 19th Century: Heyday of Diachronic Semantics ...................................................... 23
1.2. Diachronic Semantics in the 1970s and 1980s ................................................................ 32
1.3. The Rise of Cognitive Semantics .................................................................................... 35
1.4. The Influence of the 19th-century Tradition on Cognitive Approach ............................. 40
1.5. Types of Semantic Change .............................................................................................. 44
1.5.1. Metaphor As a Source of Cognitively Motivated Semantic Change ..................... 48
1.5.2. Recent Approaches to Metaphor ............................................................................ 50
1.6. Axiological Bias in Semantics ......................................................................................... 55
1.7. The Theory of the Great Chain of Being ......................................................................... 56
1.8. Zoosemy and its Causa Movens ...................................................................................... 62
1.9. Prototypicality and its Bearing on Semantic Change ...................................................... 68
1.10. A Panchronic Approach to the Study of Semantic Change ............................................ 72
1.11. Towards the Mechanism of Zoosemy ............................................................................. 75
1.11.1. Conceptual Metaphor .............................................................................................. 75
1.11.2. The Motivation for Conceptual Metaphors ........................................................... 77
1.11.3. Conceptual Metaphor: An Overview .................................................................... 77
1.11.4. The Notion of Entrenchment ................................................................................ 79
1.11.5. Conceptual Categories vs. Conceptual Domains ................................................... 80
1.11.6. Universality of Conceptual Domains ................................................................... 83
1.11.7. The Axiological Structure of Conceptual Domains ............................................... 84
1.11.8. The Mechanism of Highlighting or Foregrounding .............................................. 85
1.11.9. Evaluatively Marked Metaphorical Extensions ..................................................... 87
1.12. Concluding Remarks........................................................................................................ 88
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Editor's Note ……………………………………………………………....................... 9
Grzegorz A. Kleparski: Academic Achievements and Bibliography ......................... 11
Kazimierz Ożóg (University of Rzeszów)
Zapożyczenia angielskie we współczesnej polszczyźnie. Czy językowi polskiemu grozi
„imperializm” języka angielskiego? ................................................................................... 27
THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS
Michael Bilynsky (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv)
Constituents Placement in Historical Synonymous Strings: Deverbatives and
Etymological Affiliation of Verbal Bases ........................................................................... 35
Artur Czapiga (University of Rzeszów)
Metaphorical Extensions in the Linguistic Picture of Sheep in English, Polish and
Russian ............................................................................................................................ 50
Waldemar J. Drążek (University of Rzeszów)
Metaphor, Invited Inference and Meaning Flexibility: Cognitive and Inferential
Pathways to Semantic Change .......................................................................................... 59
Małgorzata Górecka-Smolińska (Teacher Training College, Nisko)
Bird Metaphor in Polish and English: A Preliminary Overview ......................................... 71
Marcin Grygiel (University of Rzeszów)
Cognitive Modelling of Old English Vocabulary in the Conceptual Domain
Speaking ........................................................................................................................... 80
Robert Kiełtyka (University of Rzeszów)
Cognitive Theory of Metaphor: Past Achievements, Modern Terminology? ..................... 92
Bożena Kochman-Haładyj (University of Rzeszów)
Social Aspects of Derogation of Women Terms ................................................................. 98
Ewa Konieczna (University of Rzeszów)
Non-Arbitrary Coding in the Child Language The Phenomenon of Syntactic
Iconicity ............................................................................................................................ 107
Beata Kopecka (University of Rzeszów)
In Pursuit of the Distinction Line between Metaphor and Metonymy ................................. 114
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Marta Nowacka (University of Rzeszów)
Do Students and Native/Non-native Teachers Rate Pronunciation Differently? ................. 122
Angelina Rusinek (University of Rzeszów)
Clothes in the Network of CDs: The Case of Sweater ......................................................... 138
Dorota Rut-Kluz (University of Rzeszów)
What's the Difference? Can Relevance Theory Distinguish Between the Political Media
Campaigns of Two Parties in the 2007 Polish Parliamentary Elections? ............................. 146
Pavol Štekauer (Šafárik University, Košice) & Salvador Valera (University of Jaen)
Noun Incorporation A Cross-Linguistic Research ............................................................. 155
Magdalena B. Zembrowska (University of Rzeszów)
The Rise of the Language: The Case of Elvish .................................................................... 164
APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Łucja Biel (University of Gdańsk)
Communicative Distance in Interaction: Verbal and Nonverbal Expression in
English............................................................................................................................... 175
Marta Dick-Bursztyn (University of Rzeszów)
Basic Concepts of Grammaticography and the Design of Pedagogical Grammars.............. 184
Teodor Hrehovčík (University of Rzeszów)
On an Eclectic Approach to Foreign Language Teaching.................................................... 193
Konrad Klimkowski (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin)
What Kind of Translation Classes for English Studies in 21st-Century Poland?................... 199
Dorota Osuchowska (University of Rzeszów)
Lexicography in a Language Degree Programme: An Integrated Approach........................ 206
Marta Pikor-Niedziałek (University of Rzeszów)
Translating National Geographic Articles: Strategies and Techniques................................ 212
Anatol Shevel (University of Rzeszów)
Motivation Strategies. Upper Intermediate to Advanced Learners...................................... 217
Agnieszka Uberman (University of Rzeszów)
Metaphors as a Method of Conceptualisation in Language................................................. 227
Anna Włodarczyk-Stachurska (Teacher Training College, Radom)
On Designing Polish-English Dictionaries for Young Learners: Towards the
Preliminaries...................................................................................................................... 235
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EDITORS' NOTE……………………………………………………................. 5
PAPERS
LINGUISTICS
Piotr CYMBALISTA
DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU EAT? THE PHENOMENON OF
FOODSEMY……………………………………………….…………............... 9
Bożena DUDA
ON (THE INEVITABILITY OF) LANGUAGE CHANGE…………................ 31
Robert KIEŁTYKA
ZOOSEMY AS A UBIQUITOUS COGNITIVE MECHANISM…………….... 41
Grzegorz A. KLEPARSKI
THE (SOCIO)LINGUISTIC ASPECT OF THE ANTIPODES: THE PROFILE
OF AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH……………………...……................................ 57
Grzegorz A. KLEPARSKI, Anna DZIAMA
YIDDISH ELEMENT IN AMERICAN ENGLISH: THE CASE OF
FEMALE/MALE SPECIFIC TERMS…………………………….…............... 67
Ewa KONIECZNA
LE FRANÇAIS EST BEAU, DEUTSCH IST HÄβLICH AND WHAT ABOUT
ENGLISH? A FEW REMARKS ON AESTHETIC JUDGEMENTS ABOUT
LANGUAGES AND LANGUAGE VARIETIES….………..…...............…..... 81
Beata KOPECKA
AT THE CROSSROADS OF METONYMY AND WORD-FORMATION
……………………………………………………………………………….... 89
Lívia KÖRTVÉLYESSY
ON DEFINING BILINGUALISM………………………………….……...... 101
Marcin KUDŁA
EATING THE FOREIGNER (WITH A PINCH OF SALT) MORE ON
FOODSEMIC ETHNONYMS…………………………………..................... 107
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Marta PIKOR-NIEDZIAŁEK
STYLISTIC AND PRAGMATIC ASPECTS OF TRANSLATING NEWSWEEK
A N D N AT I O N A L G E O G R A P H I C A RT I C L E S :
A RELEVANCE-THEORETIC PERSPECTIVE…………........................... 115
Edyta WIĘCŁAWSKA-SZYMAŃSKA
RESEARCH PATHS OF THE RZESZÓW SCHOOL OF DIACHRONIC
SEMANTICS………………………………………………………............... 131
LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Małgorzata MARTYNUSKA
THE WESTERN GENRE AS A METAPHOR OF THE AMERICAN
SOCIETY……………………………………………………………………. 171
Katarzyna PYTEL
LOVE AS A DISEASE ENTITY: MEDICAL DISCOURSE IN THE POETRY OF
GEOFFREY CHAUCER ………………………………………………......... 179
POLEMICS AND REVIEWS
Bożena DUDA
ŚWIAT SŁOWIAN W JĘZYKU I KULTURZE IX. JĘZYKOZNAWSTWO:
SEMANTYKA. PRAGMATYKA. KOGNITYWIZM edited by Ewa
KOMOROWSKA and Anna PORCHAWKA-MULICKA, UNIWERSYTET
SZCZECIŃSKI, 2008, pp. 206. ISBN 978-83-60903-74-2……….……….... 197
Sándor MARTSA
ON ZOOSEMY: THE STUDY OF MIDDLE ENGLISH AND EARLY MODERN
ENGLISH DOMESTICATED ANIMALS BY R. KIEŁTYKA (Prefaced by G.A.
KLEPARSKI). WYDAWNICTWO UNIWERSYTETU RZESZOWSKIEGO,
2008, pp. 257. ISBN 978-83-7338-387-6…....…...…....................................... 203
Anna WŁODARCZYK-STACHURSKA
ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT TEACHING IDIOMS AND DRAWING ON
ETYMOLOGICAL DATA………………………………………................... 211
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Grzegorz A. Kleparski, Robert Kiełtyka, Marta Pikor-Niedziałek
Preface ……………………………………………………………………………….5
Piotr Cymbalista, Grzegorz A. Kleparski
Cognitive Mechanisms of Semantic Change ............................................................7
Małgorzata Górecka-Smolińska
Bird Metaphor in Polish and English: A Preliminary Overview .........................29
Robert Kiełtyka
Dark Horses, Fat Cats and Lucky Dogs: A Synthetic View .................................43
Grzegorz A. Kleparski
On the Metaphorics of Temperature Terms .........................................................57
Grzegorz A. Kleparski, Angelina Rusinek
Field Theory and Diachronic Semantics ...............................................................75
Grzegorz A. Kleparski, Beata Kopecka
What's in the Crown? In Search of the True Nature of Metonymy .................89
Bożena Kochman-Haładyj
The Nature of Derogation of WOMEN TERMS .................................................99
Marta Pikor-Niedziałek
Pragmatically and Stylistically Conditioned Semantic Changes: Selected
Case Studies From Newsweek Polska Articles ....................................................121
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Editors’ note
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Kazimierz Ożóg
Wprowadzenie
13
THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS:
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Grzegorz A. Kleparski
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What’s in the Name of Helga, Guido and Sandomierz-loving Czesiek: With Special Reference to the
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Evaluative Load of Dutch in English
Małgorzata Górecka-Smolińska
Feathered Artists, Professional Musicians, Efficient Policemen of the Air: An Introduction to Bird 21
Symbolism
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Paweł Grabias
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To Cuddle the Knee and Other Problems – Categorization and Translation of Hunting in Poland, Great 28
Britain and Germany
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Renáta Gregová and Renáta Panocová
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On Phonetic Iconicity in Evaluative Morphology of Slavonic Languages
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Robert Kiełtyka
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On Morphology – Semantics Interface
Bożena Kochman-Haładyj
English Proverbs – A Contributive Factor to the Stereotype of Woman
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Ewa Konieczna
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Why Does ‘Obamaphilia’ Win out over ‘the Love for Barack Obama’? A Few Remarks on Nonce- 66
Formations and Neologisms in Polish and English Language Mass Media
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Lívia Körtvélyessy and Zuzana Kolaříková
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On Phonetic Iconicity in Evaluative Morphology of Germanic, Romance and Finno-Ugric Languages
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Marcin Kudła
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On the Edibility of Aliens: The Case of Sauerkrauts, Kapuśniaks and Potato-heads
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Angelina Rusinek
On the Non-Exclusiveness of Semantic Changes in the Category CLOTHES
Szymon Skóra
Universal Common Features and Tendencies in Human Language
Pavol Štekauer
The Supercategory of Quantity: Inflection vs. Derivation: A Crosslinguistic Perspective
APPLIED LINGUISTICS:
Dorota Osuchowska
Interim Report on Research in to the College Students’ Use of Dictionaries in Text Production
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Marta Pikor-Niedziałek
Cultural and Stylistic Adaptation in Translation: The Case Study of Forbes Articles
Krzysztof Trochimiuk
Interjections – Complex Expressive Content in Simplistic Packages
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Agnieszka Uberman
On Metaphorics and Symbolism of Colour Terms
Anna Włodarczyk-Stachurska
Some Remarks on Selected Currents in the Field of EFL Lexicography
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METHODOLOGY:
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Jacek Macina
Rola przedmiotu technologia informacyjna w metodycznym i organizacyjnym przygotowaniu nauczycieli 21
języka angielskiego
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Marta Nowacka
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Music and Songs in Foreign Language Teaching
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Elżbieta Rokosz-Piejko
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Trying to Make the Magic Work – Confessions of a Literature Teacher
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Anatol Shevel
Improvisation as a Means of Developing Students’ Language Creativity
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Iryna Zadorozhna
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Developing Learner Autonomy in Language Learning
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LITERATURE AND CULTURE:
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Agata Buda
The Concept of Woman in the Cultural Context of Nineteenth-Century Poland and England
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Anna Dziama
The Jewish Sense of Humor as Part of the Jewish-American Tradition in Bernard Malamud’s Short Stories 101
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“The Magic Barrel” and “Idiots First”
Sławomir Kozioł
Pop Culture – The Culture of Surface
Alina Leskiv
Realization of Irony in the Unconventional Prose of American “Black Humour”
Małgorzata Martynuska
The Portrayal of Femme Fatale in American Film Noir
Marek Smoluk
The Attitudes of English Society to Sunday Observance during the Restoration
Katarzyna Strzyżowska
The Place of Satire in British Literature – Studied from the Perspective of Englishness
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Editor's Note …………………………………………………………….......…....…....5
LINGUISTICS
Artur Czapiga University of Rzeszów
On the Speech Act of Endorsement in English, Polish and Russian ................................9
Marta Dick-Bursztyn University of Rzeszów
How Many Theres Are There? An Overview of Locative-Existential Sentences
in English ..................................................................................................................... 17
Waldemar J. Drążek University of Rzeszów
On the Validity of an Emergentist Contextual Approach to the Study of Diachronic
Semantic Change: The Case of Quell ............................................................................ 25
Grzegorz A. Kleparski University of Rzeszów
Dolce Torta, Dolce Angelina: Romance Foodsemy with the Italian Accent .................. 33
Grzegorz A. Kleparski, Angelina D. Rusinek University of Rzeszów
On the Conceptual Contiguity of the Conceptual Categories CLOTHES
and HUMAN BEING ................................................................................................. 41
Beata Kopecka University of Rzeszów
Clothes Do Make the (Wo)man! Metonymy and the Enrichment of the Category
FEMALE HUMAN BEING ...................................................................................... 51
Marta Pikor-Niedziałek University of Rzeszów
A Note on the Use of Methaphors in the Process of Translating National Geographic
Articles ...................................................................................................................... 59
Małgorzata Górecka-Smolińska Teacher Training College, Nisko
Grzegorz A. Kleparski University of Rzeszów
On the Non-Primitive Symbolism of Primitive Beings ............................................... 65
Agnieszka Uberman University of Rzeszów
Some Remarks on the Application of Metaphors in the EFL Classroom ...................... 73
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Anna Włodarczyk-Stachurska Teacher Training College, Radom
The Birth of Modern Lexicography and the Problems of Lexicography/Linguistics
Interface ....................................................................................................................... 81
METHODOLOGY
Marcin Kudła Teacher Training College, Rzeszów
On Teaching Old English Anew ................................................................................... 91
Marta Nowacka The University of Rzeszów, Teacher Training College, Rzeszów
The Polish Learner and Their English Pronunciation (I): Teaching Techniques, Learning
Startegies, Feedback, Autonomous Learning, Tests and Exams ................................... 99
Anatol Shevel University of Rzeszów
Methodological Aspects of the Conceptions Behind Grammatical Rules
in EFL Teaching ......................................................................................................... 109
LITERARY AND CULTURE STUDIES
Agata Buda Teacher Training College, Radom
Ancient Inspirations in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream ......................... 119
Sławomir Kozioł University of Rzeszów
Product Design in the Era of Pop Culture .................................................................. 123
Małgorzata Martynuska University of Rzeszów
The Disintegration of The American Dream as Seen in the Films of Jim Jarmusch ..... 133
Damian S. Pyrkosz University of Rzeszów
Let Man Subdue the Earth: Pre-Sustainable Perceptions of Environmental Care
in American Culture .................................................................................................. 139
REVIEWS
Mariusz Norberczak
Book review .............................................................................................................. 149
Lucyna Wille
Book review .............................................................................................................. 151
Anna Włodarczyk- Stachurska
Book review .............................................................................................................. 157
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LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Agnieszka Kallus (University of Rzeszów)
Mystery Unveiled: The Symbol of the Rose in Early Verse by William Butler Yeats ........... 245
Sławomir Kozioł (University of Rzeszów)
From Hommage À Chrysler Corp. to Campbell's Soup Can The Development of
Pop Art ............................................................................................................................... 253
Małgorzata Martynuska (University of Rzeszów)
American Myths about Freedom Presented in Road Films ................................................. 261
Anna Pietrzykowska (University of Rzeszów)
Shakesperean Metaphor: Implications for Space, Action, Gesture and Movement ............. 268
Damian S. Pyrkosz (University of Rzeszów)
Culture and Development: Fostering Mutually Exclusive or Reinforcing Values? ............. 274
Elżbieta Rokosz-Piejko (University of Rzeszów)
From Pecola to Junior Black Female Child as the Other in Toni Morrison's The
Bluest Eye, Sula and Love .................................................................................................. 285
Katarzyna Wywiał-Prząda (Warsaw University)
Poetry after a Dream: David Shapiro.................................................................................. 292
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Preface ………………………………………………………………………………5
Typographic Conventions ………………………………………………………….9
Table of Abbreviations ……………………………………………………………..11
Introduction ………………………………………………………………………...15
Chapter 1: Towards the Main Directions in the Study of Semantic Change with
Special Reference to Pejorative Developments ………………................................20
1.1. The Tradition of Diachronic Semantics: Towards the Types and Mechanisms of
Semantic Change……………………………………………………………..............20
1.1.1. Widening of Meaning ……………………………………………………..........24
1.1.2. Narrowing of Meaning ……………………………………………………........25
1.1.3. Transposition of Meaning ………………………………………………...........26
1.1.3.1. Metaphor ………………………………………………………….................27
1.1.3.2. Metonymy ………………………………………………………...................29
1.1.4. Evaluative Changes ………………………………………………………........31
1.1.4.1. Amelioration ……………………………………………………...................33
1.1.4.2. Pejoration ………………………………………………………....................33
1.2. Pejorative Developments in Focus: On Degradation of FEMALE HUMAN
BEING Terms from Cultural Perspective …………………………………….............37
1.2.1. In Search of the Causes of Derogation of Words Related to FEMALE HUMAN
BEING……………………………………………………….....................................54
1.3. A Review of Current Methodology for the Study of Semantic Change ………........58
1.3.1. Componential Analysis: Kleparski (1990) ………………………………..........59
1.3.2. Great Chain of Being Metaphor: Kiełtyka (2006) ………………………...........66
1.3.3. Blending Theory: Grygiel (2005a) ……………………………………….........70
1.3.4. Evaluation ………………………………………………………………..........73
Chapter 2: Evaluative Semantic Developments of English Historical Synonyms of
Girl/Young Woman and Woman ……………………….............................................79
2.1. Pejorative and Ameliorative Changes of Historical Synonyms of Girl/Young Woman
…………………………………………………………..............................................79
2.1.1. Concluding Remarks ……………………………………………………........129
2.2. Pejorative and Ameliorative Changes of Historical Synonyms of Woman ……....131
2.2.1. Concluding Remarks ……………………………………………………........211
2.3. Residue Cases (Not-Evaluative Developments of Historical Synonyms of
Girl/Young Woman and Woman) ……………………………………………...........214
Conclusions ………………………………………………………………………..224
References ………………………………………………………………………….239
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Preface
7
Acknowledgements
13
Typographic conventions
14
Table of abbreviations
15
Introduction
18
PART I:
Issues in metonymy:
21
1. Metonymy in communication
2. The nature of metonymy – cognitive approach
2.1 .In search of cognitive tools for the description of metonymy
2.2. Metonymy as a mapping, highlighting/activation
3. Structured ICMs – towards the typology of metonymic relationships
4. Metonymy and metaphor
5. Metonymy and related construals
6. Metonymy and the process of word-formation
7. Concluding remarks
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28
34
40
48
52
55
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PART II:
Metonymic extensions to the conceptual category HUMAN BEING:
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63
0. Introduction
66
1. Metonymic developments and the conceptual category MAN/MALE HUMAN BEING
66
1.0. Introduction
67
1.1. Proper names and the conceptual category MAN/MALE HUMAN BEING
80
1.2. Body parts and the conceptual category MAN/MALE HUMAN BEING
87
1.3. Tools/Instruments and the conceptual category MAN/MALE HUMAN BEING
1.4. Articles of dress and materials, and the conceptual category MAN/MALE HUMAN
90
BEING
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1.5. Activities and the conceptual category MAN/MALE HUMAN BEING
101
1.6. In search of interlingual analogies
106
1.7. Concluding remarks
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2. Metonymic developments and the conceptual category WOMAN
2.0. Introduction
2.1. Articles of dress, materials and garment parts, and the conceptual category WOMAN
2.2. Proper names and the conceptual category WOMAN
2.3. Body parts and the conceptual category WOMAN
2.4. Features of character and appearance, and the conceptual category WOMAN
2.5. Miscellaneous cases of metonymic shift to the conceptual category WOMAN
2.6. In search of interlingual analogies
2.7. Concluding remarks
3. Metonymic developments and the conceptual category PERSON
3.0. Introduction
3.1. Body parts and the conceptual category PERSON
3.1.1. Physical body elements
3.1.2. Immaterial elements
3.2. Tools/Instruments and the conceptual category PERSON
3.3. Activities and the conceptual category PERSON
3.4. Human characteristics and the conceptual category PERSON
3.5. Miscellaneous cases of metonymic shift to the category PERSON
3.6. In search of interlingual analogies
3.7. Concluding remarks
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181
186
191
Conclusions
195
References
205
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PREFACE
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PAPERS
Anna Bogacz
Idioms, Set-Phrases, Word-Groups, Phraseological Units: on Various Ways
of Approaching the Problem of English Phraseology
9
Piotr Cymbalista
Eponymy a Case for Metonymic Semantic Development
19
Bożena Duda
On Structural Forces Operative in the Formation of X-Phemisms
31
Anna Dziama
Yiddish Element in American English: The Case of Schlemiel
41
Agnieszka Grząśko
Kilka uwag na temat fl irtowania z odbiorcą reklamy
49
Bożena Kochman-Haładyj
On Types And Mechanisms of Semantic Change With Special Reference
to Evaluative Developments of Female Human Being Terms
59
Renata Kołodziej
Towards a Status Quo of Zoosemy Research
69
Jolanta Krawczyk
New Highlights in Diachronic Semantics: Zoosemy and Foodsemy as Two
Novel Categories of Semantic Change
79
Marcin Kudła
The Shades of Otherness on Body-Oriented Racial (and Racist) Terms
in English
89
Paweł Migut
On How Specialised The Special Varieties of English Can Get: The Specifi cs
of American CB Slang
97
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Anna Nowak
On Gender-Indiscriminateness of Body Parts > Human Being Metonymy:
in Search of Additional Evidence for RSDS Quest for Links Between
Conceptual Categories
107
Dorota Osuchowska
On How Parallel Tastes Can Get: a Comparison of Selected Expressions From
the English and Polish Field of Gustatory Sensations
117
Marta Pikor-Niedziałek
Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics: Their Relation with Functional Linguistics
127
Agnieszka Uberman
Application of Language Learning Strategies in Language Training
137
Edyta Więcławska
On the Diachrony of Eye: Towards Semantics and Idiomatics of Eye with Parallels
from Other Indo-European Languages
145
Anna Włodarczyk-Stachurska
On Sociolinguistic Variation in English: The Case of Black English
155
Anna Włodarczyk-Stachurska, Katarzyna Darmas
Some Remarks on the Concept of Language and its Variants
161
REVIEWS
Anna Nowak
In Medias Res Studia Resoviensia In Lingua Et Letteris
171
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The RSDS publications:
Górecka-Smolińska, M., G. A. Kleparski, A. Włodarczyk-Stachurska
(eds) 2009. Galicia Studies in Language. Historical Semantics
Brought to the Fore. Chełm: Wydawnictwo TAWA.
Grygiel, M., G. A. Kleparski 2007. Main Trends in Historical Semantics.
Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego.
Kiełtyka, R. 2008. On Zoosemy: The Study of Middle English and Early
Modern English Domesticated Animals. Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo
Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego.
Kiełtyka, R., D. Osuchowska, E. Rokosz-Piejko (eds) 2008. Language,
Literature and Beyond. Festschrift for Grzegorz A. Kleparski on His
50th Birthday. Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu
Rzeszowskiego.
Kleparski, G. A. (ed) 2009. In Medias Res. Studia Resoviensia in Lingua
et Litteris. Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Promar-International.
Kleparski, G. A., R. Kiełtyka, M. Pikor-Niedziałek (eds) 2007. Aspects
of Semantic Trznsposition of Words. Chełm: Wydawnictwo TAWA.
Kleparski, G. A., E. Rokosz-Piejko, A. Uberman (eds) 2009. Galicia
English Teachings. Old Pitfalls, Changing Attitudes and New Vistas .
Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego.
Kleparski, G. A., A. Uberman (eds) 2008. Galicia Studies in Language,
Literature and Culture. Chełm: Wydawnictwo TAWA.
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Kochman-Haładyj, B., G. A. Kleparski 2011. On Pejoration of Women
Terms in the History of English. Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo
Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego.
Kopecka, B. 2011. Skirts, Jacks, Piece of Flesh Do Make People:
Metonymic Developments to the Macrocategory Human Being.
Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego.
Körtvélyessy, L., D. Osuchowska, A. Włodarczyk-Stachurska (eds)
2011. Galicia Studies in Language. Historical Semantics Brought to
the Fore. Chełm: Wydawnictwo TAWA.
Also available:
Cymbalista, P., G.A. Kleparski, M. Bilynsky 2007. Steve and Eve can
Read Tea-leaves Peter: A Practical Guide to English Pronunciation.
Lviv: Lviv University Press.
Kleparski, G. A. 1997. Theory and Practice of Historical Semantics: The
Case of Middle English and Early Modern English Synonyms of
GIRL/YOUNG WOMAN. Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL.
Kleparski, G.A. 2000. First Facts First: An Introductory Guide to Great
Britain and the USA (2nd revised edition). Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo
WSP-Rzeszów.
Kleparski, G.A. (ed.) 2003. The Do's and Don'ts of Teaching English at
the College/University Level. Chełm: NKJO-Chełm Publishers.
2011
Kleparski, G.A., J. Wołk 2000. Test it before you Taste it: Exam Sample
Tests to the Institute of English. Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo WSPRzeszów.
Kleparski, G. A. & A. M. Pietrzykowska 2005. A Thematic Guide to
English Interactional Gambits. Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo
Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego.
Osuchowska, D. & G. A. Kleparski 2009. The Rudiments of Academic
Writing. Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego.
For further information and updates please contact
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