Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies articles from January 2002

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies archives from January 2002

Insights into the cultural history of Europe as provided by the Atlas Linguarum Europae (1). (Linguistics).
January 1, 2002... 1. Europe and the Atlas Linguarum Europae: some background information Whichever notion one consults in the European linguistic atlas, one is confronted with a number of responses that, at first sight at least, are surprising and it is...

On relative which with personal reference. (Linguistics).
January 1, 2002... 1. Problem It frequently happens that one's belief in the relatively stable character of the English grammatical system receives a jolt, sufficiently often, indeed, for one to risk losing faith in that property of the language altogether....

Some remarks on stylistic shifts in interlanguage speech: The case of 'reading' and 'speaking' errors. (Linguistics).
January 1, 2002... 1. Introduction It is a widely accepted view in the area of second language acquisition that the L2 learner's interlanguage has the status of a linguistic system in its own right. Hence, it is characterised by features shared by all...

Collateral adjectives, Latinate vocabulary, and English morphology (1). (Linguistics).
January 1, 2002... 1. Introduction 1.1. Aim The purpose of this paper is to study the nature of collateral adjectives and the Latinate vocabulary in English together with some morphological problems relating to them. English abounds in pairs like the...

The discursive construction of gendered identity: AAE. (Linguistics).
January 1, 2002... 1. Introduction The concept of gender has come a long way from the sixties when it was treated as a salient sociolinguistic variable (sex) to the nineties when it has become a fluid, dynamic and highly complex social category. The...

On the idiomatic status of English compounds. (Linguistics).
January 1, 2002... There are quite a few definitions of compounds, definitions that are widely accepted and fairly well comprehensible to ordinary readers. Zandvoort (1966: 277) writes to say that "English has a great many examples of vocables which, though felt...

Countable, uncountable and collective nouns in the early eighteenth century English -- an overview. (Linguistics).
January 1, 2002... 1. Introduction The inflectional pattern of nouns in Early and Late Modern English is almost identical with today's. One interesting exception is the treatment of abstract and mass nouns which in Present-Day English have no plural form and...

The development and preservation of Nigerian languages and cultures: The role of the local government. (Linguistics).
January 1, 2002... 1. Introduction The question as to the number of indigenous languages Nigerians use along with English has not been resolved. This, according to Emenanjo (1990: vi), is because "Nigeria is a classical multilingual mosaic in which minority...

Comprehension and interpretation of proverbs in L2. (Linguistics).
January 1, 2002... 1. Introduction The ability to understand and interpret proverbial sayings has been of great interest to researchers in many areas of psychology and psycholinguistics, attempting to account for the representation and processing of...

Coding systems in monolingual English learners' dictionaries: form and utility. (Linguistics).
January 1, 2002... The present paper attempts to investigate and evaluate the structure of verb codes in selected pedagogical dictionaries as well as assess the usefulness of encoded syntactic information to the learner. The collection of primary sources chosen...

The interpretation of English reflexive pronouns by Polish learners of English. (Linguistics).
January 1, 2002... 1. Introduction The determination and characterisation of the linguistic capacities of particular individuals has been the focus of generative studies from their origins to the present day. In the words of Chomsky and Lasnik: We are...

Asymmetrical cultural assumptions, the public self and the role of the native speaker: insights for the expansion of intercultural education in foreign language teaching *. (Linguistics).
January 1, 2002... 1. Introduction "I don't know what you mean!" "I just can't understand you!" As Deborah Tannen (1992) has already illustrated, communication between partners from the same cultural, even from the same social background, living together for...

The hermeneutic approach in translation. (Linguistics).
January 1, 2002... 1. Development in Translation Studies Translation Studies underwent considerable changes during the past years. The scholarly interest shifted from a description of language differences to the social role of translation in the literary...

Error correction practices of Polish and American teachers. (Linguistics).
January 1, 2002... 1. Introduction If a layperson were to be asked to enumerate the most distinguishing features of interaction in the foreign language classroom, he would probably insist on placing the provision of corrective feedback at the top of his list...

The role of the foreign language teacher in the classroom -- the teachers' beliefs and role behavior versus the students' expectations. (Linguistics).
January 1, 2002... 1. Introduction Every teacher must have faced the dilemma at one point or another: what should be my role in the classroom? Should I primarily focus on efficient organization of lessons with a careful selection of the language facts to be...

Limbo: from Finnegans wake to At Swim-Two-Birds. (Literature).(Flann O'Brien's 'At Swim-Two Birds')(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... Gilbert Sorrentino dedicated his 1979 novel Mulligan stew to Brian O'Nolan (Flann O'Brien), his "virtue hilaritas". This dedication is followed by epigraphs from O'Brien and Joyce. The O'Brien's epigraph is a quotation from his 1940 novel The...

Phasing Beowulf: an aspect of narrative structure in fairytale and epic. (Literature).
January 1, 2002... It is by now a fairly reasonable proposition that the overall construction of Beowulf consists of a hero's three successive battles against three numinous adversaries, culminating in his death. (1) The threefold (or manifold) arrangement this...

In the space between history and fiction -- the role of Walter Scott's fictional prefaces. (Literature).
January 1, 2002... Sir Walter Scott for a long time had functioned in literary criticism as a novelist who facilitated development of the novel towards its realist form. This is not to say that he was regarded as a great realist writer; on the contrary, his...

A history of English: A sociolinguistic approach. (Reviews).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... A history of English: A sociolinguistic approach. (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics 17.) By Barbara A. Fennell. Oxford and Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. Pp. xiv + 284. What would one not give for a freshly conceived up-to-date...

A grammar of Shakespeare's language. (Reviews).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... A grammar of Shakespeare's language. By Norman Francis Blake. Houndmills/New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xvi, 406. Few researchers would be against the idea that Blake (2002) is the most comprehensive achievement on Shakespeare's language...