Studies In Language And Linguistics

Studies in Language and Linguistics Selected Readings for Students of English Philology editors Piotr Cap and Magdalena Kozanecka Contents Foreword 5 (Piotr Cap and Magdalena Kozanecka) CHAPTER ONE English sentence: syntax-semantics interface PART ONE Analysis o f a simple sentence (Szymon Pedziwiatr) PART TWO Analysis o f a complex sentence (Piotr Cap) CHAPTER TWO Language in action: pragmatic and social aspects of language use PART ONE The pragmatics o f interpersonal communication (Piotr Cap) PART TWO Analysis o f cultural texts (Magdalena Nowacka) CHAPTER THREE Methods of teaching English as a foreign language 9 27 39 57 Selected aspects of classroom discourse and their impact on language development in the torelgn language context 69 (MirosCaw Pawlak) CHAPTER FOUR Introduction to translation theory 111 (Magdalena Kozanecka) CHAPTER FIVE Introduction to Cognitive Grammar (Kamila Turewicz) PART ONE PART TWO Cognitive Grammar: the nature of language and meaning 171 Cognitive Grammar: semantic structure o f grammatical categories 185 Foreword The present volume contains contributions by the staff of the English Department at the Academy of Humanities and Economics (AHE) in t o d i . The aim of the volume is to present students, in a clear and consistent form, with reading material as used during most of the undergraduate and graduate courses in English language and linguistics at the AHE. However, the addressees of the material are also students of English at other higher-education institutions, both state and private, such as teacher training