Beyond Philology: An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching
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In this paper I will discuss the importance of introducing minority voices when teaching American literature in Polish universities, and explore the multi-layered process necessary in doing so. I will argue that an interactive approach is essential in giving students a real understanding of diversity in America through literature. As examples of diverse American literature I will consider some writers...
he paper presents an attempt to provide a criterion for potentially useful materials in second-language teaching. That criterion is “cognitive appeal”, a notion introduced by Ryszard Wenzel in The Education of a Language Teacher, characterising those texts that are attractive for students because of a chance to expand their cognitive structures or owing to an artistic experience. The presence or absence...
Robert Burns wrote a number of poetic letters, such as Epistle to John Rankie, Epistle to Davie, A Brother Poet, Epistle to John Lapraik, An Old Scottish Bard, To William Simpson, and others. Versed epistles, although practiced by poets of various epochs, is a typically neo-classical genre connected with Horatian tradition, and followed by A. Pope. It was part of aristocratic courtly culture and an...
This essay discusses the financial and moral complexities at the center of Disgrace by Coetzee, its inquiry positioned in the context of the postcolonial decoding of the novel. Primarily, I focus on Lucy’s choice to stay in the house where she falls victim to the crime. Following “the rhetorical signal to the active reader, to counterfocalize,” which Spivak pinpoints in Disgrace, I reconstruct Lucy’s...
In this paper I will briefly outline two models for the teaching of English for Academic Purposes: the study skills model, which concentrates upon developing student competence in such areas as reading, writing, and note-taking, and the discourse orientated model, which aims to help students understand discourse processes, structures and lexis in their specific disciplines. In relation to the latter,...
The aim of this paper is to present selected metaphors which are frequently employed in Business English. These metaphors are based on the similarities between business and three domains: human beings, sports and relationships. Companies – like people – should be healthy; if they fall ill, they may be cured. Moreover, they compete with each other and engage in relationships. In this paper, we adopt...
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The research presented in this paper aims to identify various ways in which the native speakers of English conceptualize the notion of death. This is achieved through the examination of numerous expressions, mainly euphemisms, which are used in everyday English to describe and discuss the event of dying. The research is based on the Conceptual Theory of Metaphor which claims that the general conceptual...
This paper aims to examine selected proverbs that derive from the Holy Bible. It seems that the issue of proverbs is widely discussed by linguists; however, the examination of proverbs that come from the Holy Scripture appear to require more attention. Since it is impossible to provide an exhaustive description of the abundance of proverbs that permeate the Holy Bible, animals have been chosen to...
The first part of the paper deals with some phonetic notations (analphabetic and alphabetic) which were worked out in the past. It shows different types of transcription together with the main reasons for transcribing. It also gives an analysis of the notions of phoneme and allophone, which belong to the theoretical basis for constructing systems of phonetic transcription and are relevant for the...
The paper compares language learning processes when children acquire L1 and learn L2, and discusses the implications for foreign language teaching. It first looks at the stages of learning the mother tongue from birth to approximately the age of six. It also lists and analyses the types of unstructured and fixed texts native children are exposed to. The latter are the main focus of the discussion...
The paper presents an overview of the UG Slang Project. Started in 2007 in the Department of Sociolinguistics and Lexicography (now the UG Sociolinguistics Laboratory), this ongoing research project is aimed at collecting and describing slang used by students of the University of Gdańsk and, by extension, current Polish slang. The paper describes the foundations, goals, methods, and results of the...
The purpose of the article is to examine the language results of a unilingual treatment for a bilingual individual with aphasia. The patient, a 36- year old male, was born in Poland, but was exposed mostly to English for the 13 years prior to the incident, due to the fact that his family moved to the United States, where English became his everyday language. At the age of 31, while still resident...
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The campus novel, invariably a satire on the university community, typically touches on the subjects of sex, money, power, adultery, or professional rivalry. Tom Sharpe's novels cover similar topics. They are, however, crammed with vulgarity, chauvinism and black humour. The purpose of the article is to analyse Tom Sharpe’s satirical style considering the author's apparent refusal to accept the boundaries...
In his Masque of Heroes (1619), a festive entertainment commissioned by the gentlemen of the Inner Temple, Thomas Middleton glorifies and immortalises his performers and audience, using strategies of temporal manipulation constitutive for the entire masquing genre. The conventional images of disorder opening court entertainments are here clearly time-related and complemented with the notion of humanity’s...
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Once a part of the social experience of a relatively small minority, eventually cricket, with its rich terminology, became a fixed concept for a large part of the English nation. With the passage of time, cricket started to lend vocabulary and phrases to areas of experience outside the sport and its literal domains. However, it is not the origin of a phrase that is responsible for its comprehension,...