This volume is dedicated to Professor Piotr Stalmaszczyk, Head of the Department of English and General Linguistics at the University of ?ód?, on the occasion of his 60 th birthday. It includes texts written by his students, colleagues and friends, dealing with a variety of urgent, widely discussed topics in the contemporary language studies. Spanning contributions from language history, philosophy, rhetoric and argumentation, methodology, and discourse studies, it provides an authoritative outline of the field and a timely response to the existing challenges, thus making for a concise handbook of modern linguistics. It is recommended to graduate students of philology, as well as researchers working in linguistics and other disciplines within the broad spectrum of humanities and social sciences.

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Explorations in Language and Linguistics
For Professor Piotr Stalmaszczyk on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday
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Explorations in Language and Linguistics
For Professor Piotr Stalmaszczyk on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday
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- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction (Lukasz Bogucki & Piotr Cap)
- An Essay on the History of the Idea of Language Inequality (Przemyslaw Zywiczynski)
- Language, Argument and Philosophical Bewilderment (Martin Hinton)
- Donkey Philosophy. Evidence and Explanation in Theorizing about Semantics (Mieszko Talasiewicz)
- Representing Utterance Meaning: In Search of a Proposition (Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt)
- Cognitive Linguistics and Biolinguistics: On the Path to Rapprochement? (Henryk Kardela)
- Some Synthetic and Analytic Constructions in Contemporary Polish: Non-Free Variation (Elzbieta Tabakowska)
- Counting the Uncountable? Quantitative and Qualitative Methods of Analyzing Evaluative Language in Institutional Discourse. A Corpus Linguistic Perspective (Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski)
- Representing Non-English Language Data in Discourse Studies: Insights from Interviews with Polish Migrants to the UK (Agnieszka Kielkiewicz-Janowiak)
- Language Attitudes in Recent Polish Immigrants to the UK (Ewa Waniek-Klimczak)
- Explorations in the Rhetoric of the Brexit Campaign: Playing the Immigration Card for the Leave Vote (Piotr Cap)
- Deception on the Orient Express – A Pragmatic-Philosophical Account of Film Deception (Marta Dynel)
- A Prolegomenon to Translating Philosophy: An Interview with Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (Lukasz Bogucki)
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