14 articles in this issue
Monika Jablonska
New prepositional analytic constructions in contemporary PolishThis paper presents pairs of structures in which one structure is a correct synthetic phrase and the other is a corresponding analytic structure that is incorrect according to contemporary dic... see more
Ewa Data-Bukowska
Coming nearer and nearer: A cognitive grammar account of the third person plural impersonalThe present paper analyses different readings of the 3pl impersonal pronoun (3pl IMP) from the Cognitive Grammar (CG) perspective. While the well-known taxonomy est... see more
Oleksandr Kolesnyk
The cognitive premises of myth-oriented semiosisThis article addresses the cognitive premises of designation units denoting mythic concepts in a variety of texts and discourses. The article focuses on myth-oriented semiosis as a cognitive and cultural phe... see more
Wojciech Pawel Sosnowski,Joanna Satola-Staskowiak
A contrastive analysis of feminitives in Bulgarian, Polish and RussianThe subject of this article is the contemporary usage of feminitives (specifically the names of occupations and functions), which traditionally are most often derived from masculine nam... see more
Diana Blagoeva,Maciej Pawel Jaskot,Wojciech Sosnowski
A lexicographical approach to the contrastive analysis of Bulgarian and Polish phraseologyThis article discusses the concept behind The Lexicon of Active Bulgarian and Polish Phraseology [Leksykon aktywnej frazeologii bulgarskiej i polskiej] and provides ... see more
Anna Pikalova
The representation of the “emotive-I” of Christina Rossetti’s identity in her children’s poetryThis article concerns the construction of the “emotive-I” of the identity of Christina Rossetti, who wrote children’s poetry. It is revealed that the constructi... see more
Julia Ostanina-Olszewska,Aleksandra Majdzinska-Koczorowicz
A Cognitive Linguistics approach to internet memes on selected Polish internet sitesThe present study aims to analyse selected internet memes as examples of social communication from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics, and to examine more closely th... see more
Piotr Twardzisz
Settings and participants: analogous semantic extensions in conceptually remote domainsThis article concerns a phenomenon, claimed to be semantic in nature, which can be observed in expressions from conceptually distant categories. The phenomenon in quest... see more
Nataliia Mykhalchuk,Svitozara Bihunova
The verbalization of the concept of “fear” in English and Ukrainian phraseological unitsThis article is devoted to the study of English and Ukrainian phraseological units related to the emotional concept of “fear”. The article presents a sample of these p... see more
Dominika Topa-Bryniarska
The use of archimetaphor as an evaluative device of persuasion in the genre of journalistic commentaryThe present study explores the cognitive use of archimetaphor belonging to the evaluative devices of persuasion in emotional argumentation. The corpus co... see more
Nicole Dolowy-Rybinska,Cordula Ratajczak
Languages and cultures in contact. The place of new speakers in the education system in Upper LusatiaUpper Sorbs are a Slavic minority group living in eastern Germany. The number of Upper Sorbian speakers is diminishing. Upper Sorbs, the majority of whom ... see more
Pavlo Levchuk
Ukrainian, Polish and Russian trilingualism among Ukrainians of non-Polish origin living in PolandThis article examines the socio-linguistic situation of Ukrainian migrants who live in Poland but who do not have Polish origins. After presenting the issue ... see more
Orysia Demska
Hybridity and the linguistic landscapeThis article argues that a linguistic landscape can be considered a hybrid when many languages and scripts simultaneously work within it. Being heterogeneous, urban signage (shop signs, business signs, outdoor adverti... see more
Joanna Satola-Staskowiak
Vanina Sumrova, New feminitives in Bulgarian, published by the Bulgarian Academy of Science “Prof. Marin Drinov”, Sofia 2018, pp. 196. (?????? ???????, ?????? ????????? ???????? ? ?????????? ????, ??????????? ?? ??? „????. ????? ??????“, ????? 2018, cc. 1... see more