Languages in contact and contrast : a festschrift for professor Elzbieta Manczak-Wohlfeld on the occasion of her 70th birthday / edited by Anna Tereszkiewicz; Magdalena Szczyrbak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tereszkiewicz, Anna, editor.

Szczyrbak, Magdalena, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (569 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Krakow, Poland : Jagiellonian University Press, [2020]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This book is a collection of papers written in honour of Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld on the occasion of her seventieth birthday. The chapters that follow have been written by linguists affiliated with different universities in Poland and abroad, all of whom wish to pay tribute to Elżbieta's outstanding work and contribution to language contact scholarship. The papers focus in large measure on contact linguistics, but some of them address also other phenomena.

Contents:

Languages in contact and contrast: a festschrift for professor elzbieta manczak-wohlfeld on the occasion of her 70th birthday

Contents

Preface

Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld’s Publications

Tabula gratulatoria

Bilingual Learners’ Dictionaries in the Lexicographic Landscape

Feel Free To… A Comparative Study of Phraseological Borrowing

What’s in a Name? Does the Proliferation of Pejorative Terms Such as Denglis(c)h and Similar Items in German Attest to Neo-puristic Attitudes Towards Anglicisms?

English in Confrontation with Languages and Cultural Heritage of Asian Countries: Promotion or Threat?

Slavic Dirъ in the Arab-Muslim Geographical Literature

Linguistic Landscapes: The Multilingual Cityscape of Kraków

On Russenorsk -om in Particular and on Etymology and Creolistics in General

Ponglish in the British Isles: A Few Sociolinguistic Remarks on the Issue

Language Contact and Identity: Three Possible Scenarios

European Echoes of English, South African Style?

Open Spelling of Nominal Compounds in Contemporary Swedish and the Question of English Influence

To -s or Not to -s? Plural Marking on Anglicisms in Spoken German

Classification of Pseudo-anglicisms in Japanese

Underdeterminacy, Indeterminacy and Speaker’s Intentions

Globalisation and the Linguistic and Cultural Changes in Poland Within the Last Seventy Years

Playful Pleas(e): Formal and Functional Adaptations of English Please in Serbian

Gustaf Peringer’s Karaim Biblical Material Revisited. A Linguistic Commentary on a Text Sample from 1691

Yiddish Borrowings in American English: Slavic Connections

Linguistic Trespassing: Observations on Multilingual Europe

Why is He Who Tells the Truth Chased Out of Nine Villages: The Number Nine in Turkish Language and Culture

English Cyber- Words Across European Languages

Beliefs and Customs in the Phrasematics of the Podtatrze (Sub-Tatra) Region

Graphic and Orthotypographic Aspects of Anglicisms in the Field of Sports

Language Contact and Null Subjects: The Past Tense in Kashubian

Slavic Languages in Contact, 3: The Methodological Importance of Balkan Slavic for Turkish Historical Dialectology, or Croatian and Serbian neimar, Bulgarian maimar(in) ‘Chief Architect’

Indirect Language Contact and the Celtic Elements in Polish

(I’m) Just Saying and (Tak) Tylko Mówię: A Parallel Corpus Study

News on Instagram: The Use of the Social Medium by The Guardian and Gazeta Wyborcza

Vowel Adaptation in English Words in Slovak

Foreign Influences in Polish Dialectal Plant Names

Hipsterskie fashionistki keżualowo drinkują na klabingu w Lądku… English Borrowings in Informal Polish and Their Lexical Fields

On Maximality Modification in the Psych Domain: Evidence from Polish

Formal Variance in Polish Adjectival Anglicisms.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Oct 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9788323371625

8323371628