http://hdl.handle.net/11320/7063 2026-06-01T18:12:45Z 2026-06-01T18:12:45Z Karczewski, Daniel Wajda, Edyta http://hdl.handle.net/11320/7071 2018-10-05T10:32:28Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tytuł: Barczewska, Shala, Conceptualizing Evolution Education. A Corpus-Based Analysis of US Press Discourse. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, 400 pp., ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-4314-0, ISBN-10: 1-4438-4314-8. Hardback £74.99. Autorzy: Karczewski, Daniel; Wajda, Edyta Opis: Book Review

2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Zawisławska, Magdalena Falkowska, Marta http://hdl.handle.net/11320/7070 2018-10-05T10:27:09Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tytuł: Typology of metaphors with the gustatory target domain in Polish wine discourse Autorzy: Zawisławska, Magdalena; Falkowska, Marta Abstrakt: Although wine culture is quite a new phenomenon in Poland, Polish wine blogs on the Internet are numerous, and a specific wine language is rapidly emerging. The Polish lexical field of taste is rather poor compared to other perceptual fields. It is obvious that the limited lexical repertoire does not suffice to describe such a multidimensional experience as wine tasting. Polish wine discourse is permeated with various kinds of metaphors, starting from basic terms like ciało wina ‘the body of a wine,’ through more creative, but still lexicalised metaphors, e.g. leciutka nuta korkowa ‘a light note of the cork,’ to intricate, elaborated, semi-narrative metaphors, e.g. Tyle innych burgundów z lat 90-tych cierpi na sklerozę i haluksy ‘So many other burgundies from the 1990s suffer from sclerosis and bunions.’ A number of metaphoric wine terms have of course been borrowed from French or English, but there are also many new metaphors, specific for the Polish language and culture. The material for the analysis consists of blog excerpts taken from “Synamet”—a corpus of synesthetic metaphors in Polish. The paper aims at examining taste metaphors that are used in Polish wine blogs and proposing a preliminary typology of metaphors recurring in wine discourse.

2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Zhang, Shuai Luo, Shaoqian http://hdl.handle.net/11320/7068 2018-10-05T10:03:27Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tytuł: A study on conceptual transfer in the use of prepositions in English writing by Chinese secondary school students Autorzy: Zhang, Shuai; Luo, Shaoqian Abstrakt: This study addresses the issue of conceptual transfer in Chinese EFL learners’ use of prepositions under the guidance of Image Schema Theory, aiming to explore the cognitive underpinnings of conceptual transfer. By observing linguistic data from the learner corpus WCEL (Writing Corpus of English Learners), part of ICCI (The International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage), this study summarises types and manifestations of conceptual transfer in the use of prepositions in English writing by Chinese secondary school students, and analyses corresponding cognitive causes of conceptual transfer. Data processing software, AntConc, is used for observation of concordance lines according to the minimum assumption proposed by Sinclair (2004) in corpus-based studies. It is found that errors made by students in their use of English prepositions are mainly caused by negative conceptual transfer of the Chinese language; positive conceptual transfer also exists. Conceptual transfer is mainly caused by cognitive similarities and differences between English and Chinese, represented by image schemas.

2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Waśniewska, Małgorzata http://hdl.handle.net/11320/7067 2018-10-05T09:43:15Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tytuł: The socio-parasite and bio-parasite metaphorical concepts in racist discourse Autorzy: Waśniewska, Małgorzata Abstrakt: Defined as the transfer of meaning from one conceptual domain to another (Lakoff and Johnson 1980; Lakoff 1993), metaphors play a key role not only in the thought process, where they facilitate the understanding of complex concepts, as well as determine and shape people’s attitudes and perceptions of reality, but also in the way we speak, as they strongly influence the storage and organisation of information. The main aim of the paper is to identify and evaluate the people are parasites metaphor employed while referring to racial outgroups, and to review its different forms of usage on the white-supremacist Internet forum Stormfront.org according to the bio -parasite / socio-parasite categorisation framework proposed by Musolff (2016). The analysis of the metaphors unveils a slight target-dependant variation in the conceptual frame employed, which, in consequence, may influence the actions of forum users.

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