ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS. VOLUME 2. LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Contents:

Preface

Part I Multidisciplinary approaches to language studies

Elżbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska
Caught in the web of worlds: Modalities of oneiric discourse and Freudian figuration in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled

Olga Vorobyova
Caught in the web of worlds: Postmodernist wanderings through the ASC labyrinths in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled – Philosophy, emotions, perception

Hans-Jürgen Diller
Historical Semantics, corpora, and the unity of English Studies

Barbara Bacz
For the conceptualization approach to meaning: Evidence from languages in contact

Branka Drljača Margić
Croatian university students’ perception of stylistic and domain-based differences between Anglicisms and their native equivalents

Dobromiła Jagiełła
On the syntactic and discourse/pragmatic aspects of parenthetical constructions: Evidence from English and Polish

Part II Computer-mediated discourse

Jolanta Łącka-Badura
Global leaders, product pioneers, centres of excellence: The linguistic representation of an ideal employer in British online job ads

Anna Tereszkiewicz
Global trends in mainstream citizen journalism

Marianna Lya Zummo
Health on the net: The doctor answers

Yen-Liang Lin
Lexical features of adolescent online intercultural communication

Marta Dąbrowska
“You look fab on this pic!”: Gender and age in Facebook communication

Part III English studies at university level

Anna Niżegorodcew
Communicative competence, individual differences and L2 learning theories: A theoretical background for an MA applied linguistics course

Danuta Gabryś-Barker
At the initiation stage: Pre-service teachers in their period of school placement

Alan S. Weber
English studies in the Middle East

Part IV Teaching EFL: Focus on the language classroom

Mirosław Pawlak
Corrective feedback during fluency-oriented activities: Challenging the myths

Monika Kusiak
How “educated” is educational talk in an academic FL classroom?

Ewa Donesch-Jeżo
Integrating corpus work into teaching academic discourse writing to university students

Marcin Kleban
Division of labour in a collaborative writing task

Joanna Rokita-Jaśkow
Motives for early foreign language learning and parental educational aspirations in the era of globalization

Part V Culture: Film as the medium of globalisation

Claudia Ioana Doroholschi
Sex, art and Beethoven: The languages of sexuality in Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange

Piotr Olański
Contemporary flâneur in Tokyo: Analysis of a non-western city in Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation

Bartłomiej Błaszkiewicz
On the figure of the devil in Neil Young’s Greendale

Dominika Oramus
Messengers of “self-help” and “well-being”: The use of angels in contemporary popular culture

Part VI Topics in translation studies

Agata Hołobut
Individualization of film characters in subtitling and voice-over

Alina Szwajczuk, Arkadiusz Kaczorowski
Why university is not always the optimum choice: On incompatible translations of tertiary school names in Poland

Iwona Staniszewska
Sailing into unknown waters: Popularizing Latin American literature and the translator’s visibility