Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies articles from January 1 2000

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies archives from January 1 2000

Constructing the middle ages in contemporary literature and culture: the reading of Iris Murdoch's The Green Knight. (Literature).
January 1, 2000... When Umberto Eco wrote that "books always speak of other books and every story tells a story that has already been told" (1994: 511, 512) he instigated an intertextual game which gave the writer the power to draw on the literary/textual...

The fourteenth century mystics as God's children (an introductory cognitive study). (Literature).
January 1, 2000... The theme of youth as opposed to old age belongs to one of the most permanent archetypes of culture. Curtius talks about the conflict between the young (juniores) and the old (seniores) in the context of discussing the remnants of the ancient...

Scott's hi/story telling -- a postmodern reading of Kenilworth. (Literature).
January 1, 2000... The coexistence of history and fiction is a defining characteristic of the historical novel. Numerous critics claim that the approach to the two conflicting elements constituting the genre has not been uniform. In the past, in traditional...

Barth's The sot-weed factor -- a case of hypertextuality. (Literature).
January 1, 2000... In Palimpsests, Gerard Genette argues that all literary texts are inevitably hypertextual (1997: 1). The author defines "hypertextuality" as one of the five types of transtextuality or textual transcendence embracing all possible kinds of...

Essentials of Early English. (Reviews).
January 1, 2000... Essentials of Early English. By Jeremy J. Smith. London -- New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xiv, 251. Anybody who taught a course in history of English (HEL) knows that available printed materials display certain almost schizofrenic...

The English languages. (Reviews).
January 1, 2000... The English languages by Tom McArthur. Cambridge: CUP, 1998. Pp. 247. Recent years have witnessed the growing unpopularity of traditional and conservative approaches towards language study, which used to treat languages as distinct and...

Optimizing interaction in the second language classroom. (Linguistics).
January 1, 2000... 1. Introduction In recent years we have witnessed a significant shift of emphasis as far as second language acquisition research is concerned. This shift is reflected in the fact that many researchers have started to recognize the...

Verbal idioms in focus - towards the continuum of idiomatic expressions. (Linguistics).
January 1, 2000... 1. Introduction Idiomaticity has been traditionally regarded as one of the most complex linguistic phenomena. The discussion on the problem how certain aberrant idioms should be represented in and explained by regular frameworks has been...

Some hints on the importance of teaching idiomaticity (1). (Linguistics).
January 1, 2000... 1. Place of idiomaticity Everybody interested in linguistics must have noticed how many and varied types of studies have been pursued lately. It suffices to notice the diversity of topics that are presented at bigger conferences, and this...

Address and the use of its potential in Shakespeare's plays. (Linguistics).
January 1, 2000... One can hardly find a topic which has not been studied with respect to Shakespeare's plays. In this paper address will be studied as a form of the phatic use of English, (1) the artistic exploitation of which has not appeared as an object of...

Rethinking theme and rheme: some indications from a respondent study (1). (Linguistics).
January 1, 2000... 1. Introduction This paper presents the findings of an exploratory respondent study to do with the notions of theme and rheme, and discusses how these findings help us to understand these notions from an alternative perspective. The study...

Non-stranded preposition + relative who(m): syntactic discussion and corpus-related problems (1). (Linguistics).
January 1, 2000... 1. Introduction Aarts (1994a) summarises the pronouncements on the "correct" use of the relative pronouns who and whom by three influential 18th and early 19th century grammarians (2) as follows: 1. Who should be used as subject only;...

Interactional Pragmatics: towards a theory of performance. (Linguistics).
January 1, 2000... 1. Introduction Relational Pragmatics -- a research program delineated in Kopytko (1998) proposes that pragmatic theory provides a theoretical framework for studying both pragmatic competence and performance phenomena. That is, it...

Subject and Predicate agreement in the development of generative grammar. (Linguistics).
January 1, 2000... 1. Introduction In the following paper, I will attempt to assess the work undertaken until now to explain the phenomenon of agreement between the Subject and Predicate in a sentence. Some of the underlying questions that I will be asking...

"What became of Waring?" Questioning the predicator in English. (Linguistics).
January 1, 2000... 1. An introduction to proxy question words After a brief discussion of some of the names that have been used to differentiate the "two kinds of question" illustrated in (1): (1) a. Did he say that? b. What did he say? ...

Grammaticalization in early English. (Linguistics).
January 1, 2000... 1. Definition and aim Grammaticalisation was first defined by Antoine Meillet in 1912 as "the shift of an independent word to the status of a grammatical element", a process sometimes described as desemanticization (for criticism, cf....

Rolle's Ego dormio in manuscript Trinity College Dublin 155 (1). (Linguistics).
January 1, 2000... 1. Introduction Richard Rolle of Hampole, a hermit in Yorkshire, was born about 1300 (perhaps a year or two earlier) at Thornton Dale, near Pickering. He lived between circa 1300-1349 and is particularly known because of his various...

Conceptual semantics and grammatical relations in Old English. (Linguistics).
January 1, 2000... 1. Introduction Not every historical linguist embraces the idea of Chomsky's syntactocentrism with enthusiasm. It may be untimely to say unkind things about it, but there are syntactic problems which cannot be resolved satisfactorily only...

Studies on Old and Middle English language in Poland (1900-2000). (Linguistics).
January 1, 2000... Interests in Old and Middle English in Poland go back to the beginning of the 20th century. However, Medieval English did not occupy an important place in English studies in Poland before 1939. There were only two scholars who pursued serious...