The book offers new insights into linguistics by focusing on a range of fast-developing research areas. These include research into language contact, which is represented by some original chapters discussing less-frequently studied language pairs and phenomena. Moreover, it presents new findings in syntax and semantics as well as up-to-date discussions in the field of language education.

Covers a vast array of up-to-date research in linguistics Includes in-depth discussion on key issues in language education Offers new perspectives in language contact research

Autorentext

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk is Full Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Applied Sciences in Konin. She researches primarily cognitive semantics and pragmatics of language contrasts, corpus and cultural linguistics, media studies and their applica tions in translation studies, lexicography, FLT and online discourse analysis. Over the years she has been invited to read papers at various international conferences and to lecture and conduct seminars at the universities in Europe, Asia and Americas.

Inhalt

An Investigation Into Early Contexts of Double Modals.- From Use to Mention: Path-Locative Constructions that Trigger Conversion in English.- How paths come and go : a corpus-based study of deictic verbs in fictive motion.- Meanings and frequency of Polish speech and language therapy terms in general language: a corpus-based study.- Semantic variation of Peruvian capital city names: literal, metaphorical and metonymical meanings in Arequipa.- Plurilingual Awareness in Language Teacher Education: An Individual and Small-Group Self-Assessment Experience.- Enhancing Linguocultural Competence through Active Learning Approach.- The Influence of Prior Experience on Students' Involvement with TAPP.- Vocabulary, reading comprehension, verbal working memory and contextual factors: their interrelation in the case of Greek monolingual and Greek-Turkish bilingual children.- Hybrid formations in Macedonian as a result of Turkish language influence.- Multilingual practices in Early Modern England: the languages in the Johnsons' correspondence (1542-1552).- A computational typological characterization of a Turkish-German Code-Switching.