Second Language Learning and Teaching

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1 Second Language Learning and Teaching Series Editor Mirosław Pawlak For further volumes:

2 About the Series The series brings together volumes dealing with different aspects of learning and teaching second and foreign languages. The titles included are both monographs and edited collections focusing on a variety of topics ranging from the processes underlying second language acquisition, through various aspects of language learning in instructed and non-instructed settings, to different facets of the teaching process, including syllabus choice, materials design, classroom practices and evaluation. The publications reflect state-of-the-art developments in those areas, they adopt a wide range of theoretical perspectives and follow diverse research paradigms. The intended audience are all those who are interested in naturalistic and classroom second language acquisition, including researchers, methodologists, curriculum and materials designers, teachers and undergraduate and graduate students undertaking empirical investigations of how second languages are learnt and taught..

3 Mirosław Pawlak l Editors Jakub Bielak New Perspectives in Language, Discourse and Translation Studies

4 Editors Mirosław Pawlak Adam Mickiewicz University Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts Department of English Studies Nowy Świat Kalisz Poland Jakub Bielak Adam Mickiewicz University Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts Department of English Studies Nowy Świat Kalisz Poland ISBN e-isbn DOI / Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: SPi Publisher Services Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (

5 Acknowledgement The editors would like to express their gratitude to Professor Piotr Stalmaszczyk (University of Łódź, Poland), who has kindly agreed to review the papers included in the present volume. His invaluable comments and suggestions have without doubt greatly enhanced the quality of this work. v

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7 Contents Part I Phonetics and Phonology 1 Aspiration in Polish: A Sound Change in Progress?... 3 Ewa Waniek-Klimczak 2 Noise as a Phonological Element: On the Representation of Plosives and Affricates Anna Bloch-Rozmej 3 Word and Foot Minimality in English: A Metrical Government Analysis Tomasz Ciszewski Part II Grammar: Morphology and Syntax 4 The Psychological Reality of Grammar. A Cognitive Linguistics Perspective Henryk Kardela 5 A Morphologist s Perspective on Event Structure Theory of Nominalizations Maria Bloch-Trojnar 6 A Recalcitrant Nature of Object Experiencers Sylwiusz Żychliński 7 On the Representations of Motion Events: Perspectives from L2 Research Jolanta Latkowska vii

8 viii Contents 8 On the Interplay Between Prepositional Categories. The Case of the Polish od do Construction Daria Bębeniec 9 Governed Prepositions in English: A Corpus-Based Study Jerzy Gaszewski Part III Historical Linguistics 10 Reflections on Structural Variation in Old English Verbs Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik 11 The Semantic Analysis of Old English unnan Agnieszka Wawrzyniak Part IV Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics 12 When We Talk, It Never Materializes : Functions of Off-Record Communication in Conflict Talk Joanna Bobin 13 Territorialization in Political Discourse: A Pragma-Linguistic Study of Jerzy Buzek s Inaugural Speeches Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska 14 From a Complaint through Therapy to Recovery: Patient Indexicality in Medical Case Reports Magdalena Murawska 15 Beyond and within Standard English: Categories, Category Boundaries and Fuzziness Maciej Rataj Part V Translation 16 Construction Grammar as a Framework for Describing Translation: A Prolegomenon Izabela Szymańska 17 Crossing the Frontiers of Linguistic Typology: Lexical Differences and Translation Patterns in English and Russian Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Łukasz Grabowski

9 Introduction Recent years have seen important developments in the field of linguistics, or the scientific study of language, which can be ascribed to the accumulation of empirical data, the emergence of new theories of language as well as the rapid growth of new technologies. As a result, apart from traditional areas such as, for example, historical linguistics, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax or semantics, current overviews of the discipline recognize the fact that formal aspects of language have to be considered within the context of their use, with the effect that pragmatic, discoursal and sociolinguistic dimensions also need to be taken into account. In addition to this, considerable emphasis is now laid on the study of language disorders and the relationship between language and the brain, both of which fall within the scope of neurolinguistics, the way in which language is represented in the brain, the processes responsible for its acquisition, use and attrition, the phenomenon of multilingualism, the description of real-life language use made possible by advances in computational linguistics, or the different purposes for which our knowledge in these areas can be employed, which comes within the purview of applied linguistics. Worth noting as well is the emergence of new theories of language, especially usage-based models, such as Langacker s Cognitive Grammar, which have quite successfully begun to challenge, and in some cases to complement, the well-established formal and functional accounts and are potentially major contenders when it comes to explaining how languages work, how they are acquired and how they are used. The present volume recognizes all of these developments and it is a collection of papers representing most recent developments in Polish linguistics, specifically in the fields of language, discourse and translation studies. The book is divided into five parts, each including papers representative of traditionally distinguished linguistic subdisciplines such as phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, historical linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, and translation. The perspectives from which these areas are considered in specific contributions, however, are far from traditional since in many cases they strive to reconcile more conventional and innovative perspectives by drawing, among others, upon ix

10 x Introduction latest advances in corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, construction grammar or pragmatics. Since the contributions included in the publication touch upon such a variety of subdisciplines of linguistics and do so from such diverse theoretical positions, it is likely to provide an impulse for further theorizing and research for scholars, as well as constituting an important point of reference for graduate students and lecturers teaching courses in linguistics. Mirosław Pawlak

11 Biographical Notes Daria Bębeniec, PhD, is a lecturer at the Department of English, Maria Curie- Skłodowska University, Lublin. Her research interests include polysemy, vagueness, meaning representation, case semantics, language-specific encoding of spatial relations, constructional meaning and methodological issues in prepositional analysis. Dr hab. Anna Bloch-Rozmej is affiliated with the Celtic Department and the History of English Department in the Institute of English at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin as well as the Institute of English at the Holy Cross University, Kielce. She specializes in linguistics, phonology in particular. She is author of numerous articles devoted to the phonology of the Celtic languages, English, German and Polish, published both in Poland and abroad. Her latest monograph is Melody in Government Phonology exploring the phonological phenomena pertaining to the subsegmental structure of sounds. Other areas of interest involve methodology of English teaching and phonetics. Maria Bloch-Trojnar, PhD in Linguistics, is a lecturer in the Department of Celtic, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Her major research interests include morphology and its interfaces with other grammatical components, in particular de-verbal nominalizations, lexicology, English, Celtic and Slavic languages. She is author of Polyfunctionality in morphology A study of verbal nouns in Modern Irish (2006, Lublin, Wydawnictwo KUL) and editor of Perspectives on Celtic languages (2009, Lublin, Wydawnictwo KUL). She has published among others with E igse: A Journal of Irish Studies and Journal of Celtic Linguistics. Joanna Bobin, MA, is a teacher at the State School of Higher Professional Education in Gorzów Wlkp. and a doctoral student of linguistic pragmatics at the School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. Her academic interests include pragmatic theories of politeness and impoliteness, conflict typology and the importance of context for conflict analysis, as well as literary theory and modern drama. xi

12 xii Biographical Notes Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Historical Linguistics at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Research interests: Old English syntax with special focus on impersonals, Experiencer verbs, passive constructions, (clausal) ditransitive verbs, subjectless constructions, the status of clausal constituents and the syntax of the Old English verb. Tomasz Ciszewski, PhD, is a lecturer at the Institute of English, University of Gdańsk. He received his MA and PhD degrees from the University of Łódź in 1994 and His fields of expertise include linguistics, phonetics and phonology. His most important publications are The English stress system: Conditions and parameters. Studia Językoznawcze Wszechnicy Mazurskiej w Olecku (2005), The stem-suffix conflict? The sources of variability of stress patterns. In Issues in accents of English, , Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2008), and Theoretical modelling of word-level isochrony in English, In Issues in accents of English 2: Variability and norm, , Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2010). Jerzy Gaszewski is a doctoral student at the University of Łódź. His main research interests are comparative linguistics and language typology. His research so far has combined syntactic and semantic issues and has focused on minor lexical classes like particles and prepositions. The latter are investigated in his doctoral dissertation as well as in the present paper. Łukasz Grabowski, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, Opole University, Opole. He specializes in corpus linguistics, translation studies (theoretical and applied), bilingual lexicography, language typology and sociolinguistics. He has authored over 15 articles on, among others, application of English and Russian language corpora in didactics of translation and lexicography. He is also interested in computer-assisted methods of text analysis. Henryk Kardela is Professor of Linguistics at the Department of English, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin. His fields of interest include syntax, semantics and philosophy of science. He is author of 3 books (A grammar of Polish and English reflexives, Lublin: UMCS, 1985, WH-movement in English and Polish. Theoretical implications, Lublin: UMCS both written in the spirit of Noam Chomsky s Government and Binding Theory; and a book written in the framework of Ronald Langacker s Cognitive Grammar, Dimensions and parameters in grammar. Studies on A/D asymmetries and subjectivity relations in Polish, Lublin: UMCS, 2000); editor and co-editor of 12 linguistic volumes, and author of many articles on syntax, semantics and lexicography. Jolanta Latkowska (PhD in Applied Linguistics, University of Silesia, 1998) is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at the University of Silesia, Poland. Her research addresses cognitive and linguistic aspects of bilingualism, including L2-induced restructuring of the L1, semantic and conceptual transfer, as well as bidirectional interaction of languages within the construct of multicompetence.

13 Biographical Notes xiii Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, Opole University, Opole. She specializes in pragma-linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis and cultural/media studies. She has published over twenty critical studies of mass-mediated political discourse, focusing on persuasion, identity polarization, personalization, stereotyping or metaphors. She is also interested in the methodology of qualitative research and critical media literacy. Magdalena Murawska is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociolinguistics and Discourse Studies in the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. Her main research interests lie in the field of sociolinguistics. Her PhD dissertation concerned patient imaging in case reports from British and American medical journals, with particular attention to the presentation of the patient s experience of illness. Maciej Rataj obtained his Master s degree in English at the University of Gdańsk in He is now an Assistant Reader at the Institute of English and a translator of Polish. He has written several papers on sociolinguistics and normative linguistics and has presented his research at several conferences in Poland and abroad. Izabela Szymańska, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, Warsaw University. Her interests range from theoretical and contrastive linguistics, especially the Construction Grammar framework, through the teaching of English for academic purposes, to translation studies. In this last field, her research focuses on text-linguistic and pragmatic issues, on the interface between linguistic and cultural aspects of translation, and on the translation of children s literature. Ewa Waniek-Klimczak is Professor and Head of the Department of English Grammar and Phonetics at the University of Łódź, Poland. She teaches phonetics and phonology of English, sociolinguistics and accents of English courses. Her research interests include bilingual Polish-English speech and the pronunciation of English in the EFL/EIL contexts. She organizes conferences on native and nonnative accents of English and publishes books, articles and collections of edited papers on various issues in applied linguistic phonetics. Agnieszka Wawrzyniak, PhD, graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, and received a doctoral degree from this university in 2006 on the basis of a dissertation entitled The emergence of epistemic senses in preterite-present verbs in Old English. She is currently employed in the Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz. Sylwiusz Żychliński is a PhD student of syntax in the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, working in the Department of Polish-English Comparative Linguistics, interested mainly in the syntax and semantics of psychological predicates and reflexives, also a member of a grant-holding team working on the selected issues of control in Polish and English.