The eighth biennial conference Practical Applications in Language and Computers was held in Lodz, Poland during 2011, and focused on the use of corpus tools and methodologies in a wide range of lingui
It is possible to identify at least three ways of conceptualizing change in American democracy. First, change is seen as a product of development. Here change is linear, it signifies progress. The sec
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznan (Poland) in November 2010. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the area of Old and
The Kashubs, a regional autochthonous group inhabiting northern Poland, represent one of the most dynamic ethnic groups in Europe. As a community, they have undergone significant political, social, ec
This publication constitutes a selection of papers presented at the 6th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, New Sounds 2010, held in Poznan, Poland. It consists of tw
Human cognition is indispensable for any meaningful structure to develop, argues Krawczak (English, Adam Mickiewicz U., Poland), but without the intervention of context it would be a mere potentiality
Adamczewski (New Testament, Cardinal Stefan Syszynski U., Warsaw, Poland) tackles the thorny issue of the order in which the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke were written; the degree and type of inf
The rising popularity of unconventional treatment methods in Poland, not accepted by academic medicine, prompted the author to describe and interpret the social causes of this phenomenon and its diver
The fourth volume in the New Americanists in Poland series, this study brings to the forefront the lives of Mexican American women and the cultural and historical factors shaping literature written by
Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (English language and linguistics, U. of Lodz, Poland) and Thelen (translation and terminology, Zuyd U., the Netherlands) present 24 updated and revised papers drawn primarily f
Jesien (Collegium Civitas U., Poland) analyzes the contemporary role and importance of the presidency in the European Union, examining how the institution of the presidency has managed to gain its gre
Without giving voice to the die-hard critics and skeptics of democracy, Filipowicz (history of political ideas and political philosophy, Warsaw U., Poland) seeks to provoke doubt about the understandi
Volume three in Warsaw Studies in Culture and Society from Peter Lang Academic Research, this book documents an ethnographic study of teenagers in Poland. The goal was to understand their everyday use
The term involution is most commonly used in connection with Nabokov's work, but Ksiezopolska (English literature, American Studies Center, U. of Warsaw, Poland) became fascinated with the networks or
Gutorow (British and American literature, U. of Opole, Poland), who is also a Polish poet, literary critic, and translator, takes significant care in examining Stevens's assumptions of a higher self,
The 22 essays combine papers selected from a 2010 international conference in Lodz, Poland with some invited contributions to explore mental processes accompanying the production of meaning, especiall
The volume contains papers presented at the fourth Workshop «American Ethnicity: Rethinking Old Issues, Asking New Questions» which took place in Krakow, Poland, on May 24th-25th, 2010. The event was
The book presents a cultural study of Toni Morrison’s fiction, focused on her representations of the past and present, along with the relationship between the two. The authors analyze Morrison’s texts
Chromik (English cultural and literary theory, U. of Silesia, Poland) explores the textual modes in which the phenomena of fluidity and solidity are represented in the context of contemporary reconstr
