Contents

Editors’ preface (Bożena Cetnarowska, Marcin Kuczok, Marcin Zabawa) / 9

Part One: Contrastive Studies of Language Structures

Chapter 1: Anna Bloch-Rozmej: Domain structure conditions in Vilamovian and English / 17

Chapter 2: Artur Kijak: Sonorant expansion in English and German / 32

Chapter 3: Maria Bloch-Trojnar: The semantics of aspect and nominalization in English and

Irish / 51

Chapter 4: Bożena Cetnarowska: Contrasting different morphosyntactic choices in English

and Polish noun phrases / 70

Chapter 5: Anna Malicka-Kleparska: Derivationally unrelated causatives and anticausatives

in Slavic: A diachronic perspective from Old Church Slavonic to present-day Russian and Polish / 86

Chapter 6: Ángel Luis Jiménez-Fernández, Bożena Rozwadowska: The information structure of Dative Experiencer psych verbs / 100

Chapter 7: Konrad Szcześniak: A room with a view: The monostratal view with some room for derivations /122

Part Two: Contrastive Studies of Words and Their Meanings

Chapter 8: Bożena Duda: Contrastive analysis of selected synonyms of prostitute in English,

Italian, and Turkish /143

Chapter 9: Marcin Kuczok: Precious possession, war or journey? Conceptual metaphors

for life in American English, Hungarian, and Polish / 157

Chapter 10: Eleonora Joszko: Inside information: Specialized vocabulary in general-language

dictionaries as exemplified by English and Polish equestrian terms / 171

Chapter 11: Jacek Rachfał: A morphological, semantic, and etymological comparison of English and Polish house-related technical terms / 187

Chapter 12: Marcin Zabawa: English loan translations in the Polish names of professions / 204

Chapter 13: Joanna Jasińska-Bryjak, Lucyna Marcol-Cacoń: KAM, CEO, HRM: ‘who is who’

on the job market? A contrastive analysis of foreign job titles in Italian and Polish / 217

Part Three: Contrastive Linguistics beyond Language Forms

Chapter 14: Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld: English language use in scientific discourse / 233

Chapter 15: Ewa Bogdanowska-Jakubowska: Differences in self-presentational patterns:

A community-of-practice perspective / 246

Chapter 16: Paulina Biały: The English and the Poles: Two different cultures, two different

approaches to the use of diminutives / 265

Chapter 17: Olena Vialikova: Semiotic structure of the creolized verse text / 280

Chapter 18: Teresa Maria Włosowicz: Cross-linguistic similarities and differences between

cognates and implications for foreign language learning / 295

Chapter 19: Victoria Camacho-Taboada, Ángel Luis Jiménez-Fernández, Susana López-Rueda: The acquisition of null/explicit subject pronouns in Spanish as L2 by English speakers / 310

• Title: Various Dimensions of Contrastive Studies
• Author: red. Bożena Cetnarowska, red. Marcin Kuczok, red. Marcin Zabawa
• ISBN: 978-8-3801-2919-1, 9788380129191
• Date of issue: 2017-08-08
• Format: Ebook
• Item ID: e_0lzn
• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego