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    A study in the use of bilingual and monolingual dictionaries by Polish learners of English: A preliminary report
    (Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen University, 2002) Lew, Robert
    The paper presents a selection of results from a study investigating dictionary use by 712 Polish learners of English representing a variety of FL competence levels and backgrounds. Data from Learner Survey, experiment, and Teacher Survey are brought in to test hypotheses relating to a variety of aspects of dictionary use. Here two aspects have been selected for presentation. First, frequency with which learners seek different types of information in their dictionaries is analyzed. It is found that the need for meaning and equivalents dominates over non-semantic information at all levels but the highest. At the advanced level, interest in non-semantic information surges. Second, the relative usefulness of six dictionary types for lexical decoding is tested experimentally. Analysis reveals the influence of level, dictionary type, and interaction of level by type on test scores. Monolingual dictionary produces lowest scores, but its disadvantage is relatively smallest for advanced learners.
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    AD reception research: Some methodological considerations
    (EUT, 2012) Chmiel, Agnieszka; Mazur, Iwona
    AD reception research, or collection of feedback from the blind and partially sighted as the target audience of audio described films, seems to be one of the best sources of information to be applied when creating both AD standards and audio descriptions proper. This paper presents experiences gained by the authors when conducting two reception studies. The first one involved a questionnaire distributed to 18 viewers with vision dysfunctions immediately after two screenings of audio described films. The other one is a larger-scale work-in-progress, whose results will be applied in the development of Polish AD standards reflecting the preferences of the blind and visually impaired viewers in Poland, where the participants are being interviewed and presented with AD samples. The authors discuss various methodological issues, including problems with obtaining a sufficient number of participants, reflecting feedback from visually- impaired AD consultants in the surveys and discovering user preferences. It is suggested that responses concerning objectivity or subjectivity of descriptions should be elicited indirectly (implicitly) rather than directly (explicitly) and that research results are more meaningful if interviews involve comprehension questions and AD samples.
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    Are abstract concepts like dinosaur feathers?
    (Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014) Jelec, Anna
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    Articulatory grounding of phonemic distinctions in English by means of electropalatography
    (2014) Krynicki, Grzegorz
    The aim of the experiment described in this paper was to devise and test a procedure that would allow identification of a phoneme on the basis of only tongue-to-palate and labial contacts that accompanied its realization in continuous read speech. The hypothesis underlying this study was that the articulatory correlates of the phonemic distinctive features can be induced statistically from dimensionality-reduced electropalatographic data.
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    Aspects of morphosyntactic constraints on quantification in English and Polish
    (Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2016) Dziubała-Szrejbrowska, Dominika
    The topic of dissertation “Aspects of morphosyntactic constraints on quantification in English and Polish” is numerals and lexemes expressing quantity such as many, much, a few/little, several/a few functioning as modifiers in nominal phrases in English and Polish. The subject matter analyzed in the present work is syntax of nominal phrases containing quantifiers within a generative grammar, more specifically in the recent permutations of generative model as discussed by Chomsky (1995, 2001), and according to a novel approach to grammar, i.e. nanosyntax, as introduced by Starke (2009); Caha (2009, 2010 ) or Taraldsen (2009). The major aspect of this work is the structure of nominal phrases containing quantifiers as well as the mechanism of case distribution within a phrase based on the theory of movement together with the assumption that the smallest building block is not a morpheme, as it has been the case in various generative approaches, but a feature. What follows, elements in phrases occurring in positions to which structural cases, i.e. Nominative and Accusative, or oblique cases, i.e. and Genitive or Dative etc. are assigned, move to the position within a maximal projection of a given Case. The proposed model seems to provide tools to explain the homogenous and heterogeneous syntax of numerals, the intricate patterns of case marking of modifiers in a pre-numeral and pre-nominal position as well as signals new avenues to explore in the syntax of agreement with quantified subjects.
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    Audio Description Made to Measure: Reflections on Interpretation in AD Based on the Pear Tree Project Data
    (Rodopi, 2012) Mazur, Iwona; Chmiel, Agnieszka
    The issue of interpretation in audio description continues to divide both AD practitioners and researchers. In this contribution we look at interpretation from the point of view of narratological behaviour of sighted viewers. To this end, we analyse data from twelve languages collected in the Pear Tree Project – a research project in which sighted viewers were asked to watch a short film and subsequently recount what they saw. Linking our findings to AD, we find in our analysis that sighted viewers interpret visual events but they avoid extremely subjective interpretations or interpretations in which they pass moral judgments. Thus, we propose that instead of applying the binary opposition of objective versus subjective, we should rather be using an objectivity– subjectivity scale, which can help determine which interpretive descriptions are less subjective and can consequently be used in AD without running the risk of being patronising or spoon-feeding the sense to the visually impaired.
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    Audiodeskrypcja
    (Wydział Anglistyki UAM, 2014) Chmiel, Agnieszka; Mazur, Iwona
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    Avant-garde – some introductory notes on the politics of a label
    (Oxford University Press, 2009) van den Berg, Hubert
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    Avantgarde und Anarchismus. Dada in Zürich und Berlin
    (Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1999) van den Berg, Hubert
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    Beats-and-Binding Phonology
    (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2002) Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Katarzyna
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    Blink of an Eye: Material Nature Captured in the Momentary Now. A radical 1st person perspective
    (Wydział Anglistyki UAM, 2019-01-17) Holbrook, Dwight
    Blurring the border between science and the humanities, this book scrutinizes the relation between material nature and ourselves, doing so by means of a 1st person approach to time. It takes as primordial starting point the now’s immediacy – that is, the experiential immediacy of one’s awakenness to, and contact with, the world and our surroundings, a momentness of time that matches and aligns with the immediate presentness of the world we’re in touch with and lucidly aware of. The primordiality of such alignment of time is brought out by the fact that without it there could be no communication, no con-temporaneous society, no knowledge, all of which hinge on this synchronicity of immediate time. Such a perspective entails the overturning of the all but universal bedrock presumption of sequential time, the before and after of extended time. Instead of the transient present resting precariously on the foundational notion of an ordered, sequential time that provides for causal sequence, for chronologies, and for a past “in” the past and a future “in” the future, in the schema advanced in this book it is the past and future that perch precariously on the present – the immediate present being not the present effect of a cause but the present beginning that other notions of time are predicated on. In other words, the notion of time – as this book proposes it – is turned upside down. One might compare such a proposal to that of attempting a detour around the observational bias of searching for keys where the street light is shining, that locality being in this case 3rd person and data-compatible description – the measurable, the countable, the sequential. It is enough here to hint at the detour’s vindication by citing a previewer’s comment on an article in which I addressed the subject of immediate time: “This paper tackles what I’d say is the most important question in consciousness studies; namely, what is the nature of experienced temporality.” (Journal of Consciousness Studies, inhouse previewer of “The Nowness of Conscious Experience,” Sept. 19, 2017).
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    Can dictionary skills be taught? The effectiveness of lexicographic training for primary-school-level Polish learners of English
    (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2008) Lew, Robert; Galas, Katarzyna
    In the present paper we examine the question of whether dictionary reference skills can be taught effectively in the classroom. To this end, we test the reference skills of a group of Polish primary-school students attending English classes twice: prior to and following a 12-session specially-designed training program. Despite the subjects high confidence in their reference skills reported in the accompanying questionnaire, they performed rather poorly on the pre-test. Following a training program, the performance improves substantially and significantly more than in a matched control group. We conclude that a dictionary skills training program may be effective in teaching language learners at this level to use dictionaries more effectively, though different skills benefit to different degrees.
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    Classification of the lexicon of modern Polish according to the structure of consonant clusters
    (Proceedings of the 17th ICPhS, Hong Kong 2011, 2011) Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Katarzyna; Jankowski, Michał; Wierzchoń, Piotr
    The aim of the project this paper reports on is to identify and analyze the correlation between Polish consonant clusters and the semantic categories of the words that contain a given cluster. The material studied is a large corpus of Polish newspapaper text. A common characteristic of sets of words is whether or not they contain an identical consonant cluster, which understood here as a contiguous string of consonants not interrupted by a vowel. The aim of the study is to find other common characteristics of the words, that is the identification and analysis of a correlation between the cluster and the semantic categories that the words containing the cluster belong to. The semantic categories considered in the model pertain to the following properties of the words featuring a common cluster: derivation, part of speech, inflection, and morphotactics.
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    Constructing gender and sexuality in the EFL classroom in Poland: Textbook construction and classroom negotiation?
    (Routledge, 2015) Pawelczyk, Joanna; Pakuła, Łukasz
    Poland, as a young conservative democracy, is witnessing an unprecedented amount of public debate where ‘gender’ and ‘sexuality’ figure prominently. Both, however, tend to be perceived as foreign imports and thus fiercely contested. Consequently, the role of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) materials as well as teachers as potential mediators of markedly different Anglophone socio-politics is of paramount importance. What is more, the only Polish research examining the portrayal of women in EFL materials is that by Jaworski (1986), who exposed the abundance of sexism in EFL textbooks available in Poland at that time. Regrettably, ‘sexuality’ as a culturally (but not linguistically) important identity category was not addressed or recognised in the broad Polish educational context until 2012 (Świerszcz 2012). This chapter reports on two studies conducted as part of the research project entitled “Investigating Gender and Sexuality in the ESL classroom: Raising publishers', teachers' and students' awareness”. The aim of the first study was to qualitatively scrutinize the discursive and multimodal construction of gender, gender relations, and sexuality in two leading illustrated Primary School EFL textbooks in Poland, along with the accompanying workbooks and teacher’s books. To this end the analytical methods of Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough 1989; Lazar 2005, 2014), Multimodal Discourse Analysis (see e.g. Giaschi 2000; Guo 2004; O’Halloran 2004; Kress and Van Leeuwen 2006) and the concept of critical heteronormativity (Motschenbacher 2010, 2011) were utilized. The analyses focused on the representation of the social roles of men and women, boys and girls in EFL materials. They also demonstrated different textual manifestations of heteronormativity. ‘Gender critical points’ (Sunderland et al. 2002) – identified in the first study - were drawn on in the second study. We also extended Sunderland et al.’s (2002) concept by introducing the notion of ‘gender-emerging points’, which we believe enriches the analytical apparatus by highlighting the dynamic character of classroom interactions and thus the central role of teachers. Here we used audio-recorded primary school classroom interactions to demonstrate how the identified ‘gender critical points’ are addressed and how ‘gender-emerging points’ surface and/or are made (ir-)relevant in the classroom setting. Thus the analysis focused on gendered ‘talk around the text’ emerging in teacher-student interactions to explore negotiation, challenge and/or rejection and ‘uptake’ of gender roles and discourse. To this end methods and insights from critical linguistic analysis were used along with Sunderland’s (this volume) agenda for future research on gender representation in foreign language textbooks.
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    “CURATORS OF MEMORY”: WOMEN’S VOICES IN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
    (Wydział Anglistyki UAM, 2015) Sikorska, Liliana; Bronk, Katarzyna; Frątczak, Marta; Jarząb, Joanna
    The present volume of essays joins the literary and academic debate on the value and power of female voices in literature and beyond, offering a multifaceted selection of writerly and academic perspectives on themes, such as various types of femininities, Écriture féminine, storytelling and memory, gender and ethnic identity, socialisation of women, violence against, and by, women, female bodies, madness and hysteria, sexism and religion, etc. The essays collected in the present volume re-member historical/ actual and fictional women and their fate in various historical and literary periods, allowing the reader to see diachronic changes to the perception of femininity as well as writing by women.
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    Czy fonologia może być naturalna?
    (Tertium, 2011) Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Katarzyna
    Celem artykułu jest ukazanie roli teorii Fonologii Naturalnej i Językoznawstwa Naturalnego we współczesnych badaniach dotyczących języka. Na wstępie zarysowane zostanie samo pojęcie naturalności w językoznawstwie, ponieważ od niego wywodzi się filozofia języka reprezentowana przez omawianą teorię. Następnie przejdę do przedstawienia podstawowych założeń Fonologii Naturalnej (odtąd w skrócie FN) oraz historii ich rozwoju w holistyczny model Językoznawstwa Naturalnego (odtąd w skrócie JN). Trzonem artykułu będzie ilustracja działania epistemologii naturalności w ramach Fonologii Bitów i Wiązań, a w szczególności na polu fonotaktyki i morfonotaktyki.
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    Designing relational database structures for storing and processing language questionnaire data: Example from a study in dictionary use
    (Łódź University Press, 2003) Lew, Robert
    The author discusses a methodological approach to storing, structuring, and processing complex data a large-scale dictionary use study.
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