Framing Human Experience

Language, Culture and Affect

Andrzej Rabsztyn, Zbigniew Kadłubek, Ryszard Wylecioł

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2026
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783847019336
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Literature

"Framing Human Experience: Language, Culture, and Affect" offers an interdisciplinary exploration into the multifaceted ways human realities are constructed, perceived, and navigated through linguistic structures, cultural frameworks, and affective responses. This volume brings together scholars from diverse fields to investigate how experiences, ranging from the intimate sense of 'home' to societal phenomena like violence and disinformation, are articulated and understood across various contexts. By integrating these diverse analytical perspectives and case studies spanning multiple languages and historical periods, the volume illuminates the intricate, dynamic interplay between our linguistic tools, cultural inheritances, and affective lives. It offers valuable insights for scholars and students interested in how meaning of human experience is made, contested, and experienced in a complex world.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Introduction: Framing Human Experience – From Abyss to Affirmation
• Ewelina Topolska (University of Silesia): Understanding the Despair in Angélica Liddell’s Art: Bowlby, Erikson and Fromm
• Anna Tyka (University of Silesia in Katowice): Faces of violence in the dramaturgical discourse of Oleg and Vladimir Priesniakov
• Patrycja Matusiak (University of Silesia in Katowice): Cruelty or Necessity? Valerius Maximus between Hannibal and Caesar
• Joanna Dembińska-Pawelec (University of Silesia in Katowice): Madness, Obsession, Love, And Death: The Villanelle As A Genre Key to Representation of Experience in Stanisław Barańczak’s Translations and Poems
• Mariusz Jochemczyk (University of Silesia in Katowice): New York, New York... by Halina Poświatowska
• Ksenia Galuskina (University of Silesia in Katowice): Legality and Visibility: Publicness as a Threshold in Polish Judicial Discourse on Hate Speech
• Agnieszka Pastucha-Blin (University of Silesia in Katowice): Multidimensionality of Persuasive Discourse: Interpretation of Utterance and Axiological Structures
• Anna Nowakowska-Gluszak (University of Silesia in Katowice): Do Experts Lie? The Strategic Use of Expert Opinions in Disinformation Text
• Marzena Walińska (University of Silesia in Katowice): A Few Remarks on the Old Polish Anti-Plague Pamphlet: Przestroga pewna przeciw powietrzu morowemu (A Warning Against Pestilential Air; 1585)
• Zbigniew Kadlubek (University of Silesia in Katowice): Lech Majewski’s Polana: Questions About Humanity
• Patrycja Przelucka (University of Silesia in Katowice): The World-Centeredness of Solarpunk: Worldbuilding with the Mission of Rebuilding the World
• Aleksandra Paliczuk (University of Silesia in Katowice): The concept of casa in Italian in the context of social relationships. A cognitive analysis