Bücher der Reihe Warsaw Studies in English Language and Literature

Constitutes papers presented at the International Conference on Foreign Influences on Medieval English held in Warsaw on 12-13 December 2009 and organized by the School of English at the Warsaw Division of the Academy of Management in Lodz (Wyzsza Szkola Przedsiebiorczosci i Zarzadzania).

English Contrastive Studies

Miscommunication has always intrigued researchers in and outside linguistics. This book takes a different perspective from what has been proposed so far and postulates a case for intercultural miscommunication as a linguistically-based phenomenon in various intercultural milieus.

This book discusses the phonology of glides and nasals in Polish and English on the basis of spelling and pronunciation errors. The aim of this study is to show the relatedness between spelling and pronunciation errors and the phonological systems of both languages in Standard Generative Phonology and Optimality Theory.

This is a volume of selected papers presented at the International Conference on Historical English Word-Formation and Semantics held in Warsaw in 2011. The conference was attended by scholars from ten countries. Their papers covered a wide range of topics concerning the area of word formation and semantics in Old and Middle English.

An interdisciplinary, meta-semantic study of meaning, combining linguistics, semiotics and philosophy. Its main theoretical framework is Cognitive Linguistics. The author demonstrates how the theoretical and historiographic boundaries of the cognitive model of language can be broadened and enriched by semiotic and phenomenological perspectives.

The volume consists of reprints of papers originally published between 1967 and 2009. Terms like "congruence", "equivalence" and "tertium comparationis" as well as fundamental principles of classical, structural contrastive studies are defined. The study also contains articles which lay foundations of cognitively based contrastive studies.