http://hdl.handle.net/11320/8884 2026-06-01T18:13:16Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/8890 Tytuł: Civilization and sexual abuse: selected Indian captivity narratives and the Native American boarding-school experience Autorzy: Skał, Ewa Abstrakt: This paper offers a contrastive analysis of Indian captivity narratives and the Native American boarding-school experience. Indian captivity narratives describe the ordeals of white women and men, kidnapped by Indians, who were separated from their families and subsequently lived months or even years with Indian tribes. The Native American boarding-school experience, which began in the late nineteenth century, took thousands of Indian children from their parents for the purpose of “assimilation to civilization” to be facilitated through governmental schools, thereby creating a captivity of a different sort. Through an examination of these two different types of narratives, this paper reveals the themes of ethnocentrism and sexual abuse, drawing a contrast that erodes the Euro-American discourse of civilization that informs captivity narratives and the boarding-school, assimilationist experiment. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/8889 Tytuł: Stimulating educational growth through vision and self-efficacy: a case study of adult users of English as a foreign language Autorzy: Pietluch, Arkadiusz Abstrakt: The present study focuses on scrutinising the congruence between the two concepts which are currently at the forefront of the motivational research, namely self-efficacy and the mental representation of a future state which, in the literature, is referred to as vision. To this very end, the first part of the paper offers a concise summary of the theoretical underpinnings behind both constructs. The latter sections of the examination are exploratory and interpretative in their nature and are dedicated to the empirical analysis of the correlation between vision and the sense of personal agency as well as the discussion of the answers stemming from the semi-structured interviews employed for the purpose of the study. The outcomes of the investigation provide satisfactory evidence to account for the presence of a reciprocal interaction between the adopted variables and prompt various noteworthy implications, for example, the positive impact of the notions on inducing a long-term, motivated action, the ability of vision to substitute efficacy beliefs in the initial stages of agency growth, and the stimulating influence of pre-experiencing emotional arousal related to a future state on a student’s language proficiency. This, in turn, creates an opportunity for inspiring the motivational gain in a variety of settings, including a foreign language classroom. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/8887 Tytuł: The wrestling with a pig in the mud metaphor in the service of liberal ideology: a critical analysis Autorzy: Pawłowska, Katarzyna Abstrakt: Metaphors are used in political discourse in order to advance one particular view of the world whilst delegitimising other ideologies and belittling political opponents. The author verifies this claim by analysing the wrestling with a pig in the mud metaphor in light of the Critical Metaphor Analysis model and by providing broad reference to the socio-political context of the 2019 European Parliament election in Poland. Consistent with the premises of the selected paradigm, the investigation is performed at three intermingling levels. Basic categories of source domains present in the complex metaphorical structure are identified at the descriptive level. At the interpretative level, attention is directed towards mapping out correspondences between source and target domains. Finally, at the motivational level, the author identifies the ideological message and political intentions embedded in the metaphor’s use. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/8886 Tytuł: From translation problem to translation strategy: An empirical study based on fragments of prose fiction Autorzy: Buć, Bartosz Abstrakt: The presented analyses comprise 11 examples of source text and target text fragments based on the typology proposed by Hrehovčík (2006). Each of them presents a different translation problem as well as a translation strategy implemented in order to overcome the lack of equivalence between the discussed text passages. In light of the fact that this paper does not aim to assess the work of the translator Andrzej Polkowski, with exception to his applied techniques, some comments also suggest general alternative translation procedures. Following this path, it is possible to highlight and easily comprehend differences between translation strategies and the results of their application. Moreover, each analysed fragment is preceded by a short introduction which gives insight into the theoretical foundation of the procedure. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z