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Table of contents
Preface
Part One: Experimental and Survey Methods
Events and sentences in story construal of English-native and Polish–foreign language users: experimental methodology and outcomes (Janusz Badio)
Factors determining genericity in the light of experimental studies of generics (Daniel Karczewski)
Linguistic Worldview of Esperanto: a Questionnaire Method (Ida Stria)
Comprehension of metaphor-based non-literality in signed languages by the hearing persons (Krzysztof Kosecki)
Second language acquisition in the canton of Zurich: the Swiss are fond of English (Agnieszka Stępkowska)
Part Two: Language Corpora
"No problem" or no "problems?" Special problems raised by the reference to absence in the sequences no+N-Ø and no+N-s (Valérie Bourdier and Agnès Leroux)
The socio-cultural conceptualisation of femininity: corpus evidence for cognitive models (Dylan Glynn)
Negative self-evaluative emotions from a cross-cultural perspective: A case of ‘shame’ and ‘guilt’ in English and Polish (Karolina Krawczak)
A Categorization of conditional Expressions in Japanese: insights from a lexical approach (Naoki Nakamata)
Identifying and measuring personification in journalistic discourse (Piotr Twardzisz)
A covarying collexeme analysis of the verb play and the "manner" adjunct in the domain of soccer (Jarosław Wiliński)
Time in structuring fictive motion: an empirical corpus-based study (Jacek Tadeusz Waliński)
Multimodal communication in career coaching sessions: lexical and gestural corpus study (Barbara Konat and Konrad Juszczyk)
Research design in corpus-supported critical discourse analysis (Victoria Kamasa)
Part Three: Language Analysis
Ellipsis and sentence fragments in Ian McEwan’s "Amsterdam": their effect on meaning (Eva Malková)
Meaning change of gradual verbs denoting colour in English (Olga Berdina)
‘Shuttle’ methods in the analysis of metaphor in English philosophical discourse (Iryna V. Malynovska)
Part Four: Miscellaneous Methods
Iconic effects in loanword adaptation (Mirosław Bańko)
Chaucer’s selected narratives: through the looking-glass of medieval imagery (Katarzyna Stadnik)
Alternatives to intuition in linguistics research (Martin Hinton)
Compliments in film subtitles: a pragmatic and cognitive study of translations from English into Polish (Anna Bączkowska)
Specific universals: a comparative analysis of subject of evaluation construal (Natalya Savoiskaya)