Contacts and Contrasts in Cultures and Languages

This volume provides descriptions and interpretations of social and cognitive phenomena as well as processes that emerge at the interface of languages and cultures in the context of contrastive and contact linguistics and media discourse. Different contexts are explored with rich empirical findings and authentic exemplifying materials. The book includes fifteen papers, divided into three parts. Part 1 addresses conceptual reflection on languages and cultures in contact and contrast, while Part 2 focuses on contact linguistics and borrowing. Part 3 discusses cultural and linguistic aspects of media discourses.

Goes beyond the usual, compartmentalized linguistic research and explores the phenomena of contact and contrasts between languages and cultures in different contexts Provides rich empirical findings on social and cognitive phenomena with regard to contact-situated contrastive studies and media discourses Interdisciplinary in nature, it sheds new light on the phenomena of languages and cultures from the perspective of discourse-based cognitive approaches, exemplified by authentic materials

Autorentext
Dr. habil. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk is a full professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the State University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Poland and head of the Department of Research in Language, Literature and Translation. She previously served for many years as head of the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Lodz, Poland. She is the author or editor of numerous books and papers on cognitive and corpus linguistics, collaborative knowledge acquisition and translation. She is a recipient of Polish Academy of Sciences awards, was selected as an Honorary Professor in Linguistics and Modern English Language at the University of Lancaster, UK, and has been invited to read papers at conferences and give workshops at various European, American and Asian universities.

Inhalt
I am Not a Gobi Girl! Observations on Cultural Similarities and Differences Based on Four Years of Fulbright Fellowships in Poland, Latvia, and Outer Mongolia.- Meaning, Perception, and Culture in International Business Discourse: A Theoretical Analysis of Potential Conflicts.- Expressing Modality in Commercial Agreements and Contracts The Analysis of Polish-English Parallel Texts.- Culture Diversity in English Arabic Proverbs.- Ernest Hemingway's Mr. and Mrs. Elliot: A Narrative of a Failed Romance.- (Un)successful Communication: Sex-based Differences and Contrasts.- Similarities and Contrasts in Multisensory Metaphorical Conceptualisations of Memories in Polish and English.- Metaphors of Pride in Polish and English A Corpus-based Study.- Blending In: Hybridity, Identity and Creolization.- The Presence of Loanwords of Nahuatl Origin in the Press of Veracruz, Mexico.- Contrasting News Values in Newspaper Articles and Social Media: A Discursive Approach to the US Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage.- A Corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of migrants and migration in the British Tabloids and Quality Press.- Linguistic Differences in Headlines: Comparison between Korean and American Newspapers.- Well-being and Collective Identity in Cross-cultural Contexts.- The Phenomenon of Global English in the World of Interactive Online Entertainment.