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Preface
The present volume is a  collection of twelve papers, which have been prepared by
thirteen young scholars, whose scientific activities are oriented towards broadly under-
stood theoretical and applied linguistics.
Yet, first, it is necessary to explain the term
young scholar,
which appears in the title of
the volume. Therefore, by the term
young scholar
is meant a person who has already been
involved in his/her PhD studies in the field of linguistics, or has already obtained the de-
gree of PhD in linguistics. That is why, the explanation of the term simultaneously advo-
cates the second part of the title i.e.
research projects.
All the articles which are presented
in this volume grew out of the scientific interests of the authors and present the results of
the linguistic research which, on the one hand, reflects the authors’ specialization in the
area of linguistics and, on the other, demonstrates different directions of the development
of contemporary linguistic studies in Poland, as the authors of the contributions represent
different research centers throughout the country.
The book has been divided into three main parts. The first part,
Focus on discourse
studies,
brings together four contributions. Milena Adaszek-Waliszczak deals with the is-
sue of the language of success. In her paper, the author is trying to deliver a broad char-
acteristics of the language of success and, at the same time, attempting to answer the
question whether the language of success can be treated as a separate kind of language
analogically to the language of politics, the language of advertisement. Agnieszka Cier-
pich investigates certain linguistic behaviours which are typical of the given subculture,
namely hipsters. As a result of the conducted research, the scholar deals with the observa-
tions she has made upon the tendency of using English words and expressions in everyday
communication by Poles. Subsequently, Joanna Sycz-Opoń elaborates on the application
of Plain English guidelines to the text written in Polish. The first part of the paper centers
on the description of plain language movement in Poland and abroad. The part is followed
by the presentation of the author’s research of the practical application of plain English
guidelines to a selected sample of a Polish text: the manual of a digital decoder. Finally, Ju-
lita Woźniak and Paulina Królikowska’s paper presents a case study of creating discursive
representations of Polish migrants in selected titles of the British press.
The second part,
Focus on translation studies,
is made up of six papers the authors of
which investigate selected phenomena which are characteristic of translation and com-
parative linguistic studies. Katarzyna Bańka opens the second part of the volume with
the paper on the ambiguity and translational errors that occur in the rendering of certain
Chinese texts and phrases into Polish. The results which are demonstrated in the paper
have been drawn from the research which was conducted among university students of
a Chinese translation programme in Poland. Using practical examples of translated texts
of the poetry of T.S. Eliot, Łukasz Matuszyk’s paper investigates theoretical texts on trans-
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lation, focusing on the distinction between the Original and a translation which is sup-
posed to work as a binary opposition parallel to the differentiation between sanctity and
infidelity, brought to the extent of translation being viewed as a profanation of the Origi-
nal. The paper is followed by the contribution by Damian Pisarski, who attempts to (re)
discover the identity of Slavs in the XXth century. For the purpose of the study, the author
analysis the historical text of
Proglas
(Eng.
Foreword),
which is the foreword to the Old
Church Slavonic translation of the four Gospels. Ewa Konieczny’s focuses on the com-
parison of English and Polish light verb constructions. As the author states it might be
viewed as a bridge between theoretical linguistics and translation studies. Piotr Wielecki
presents his reflections on Anna Wierzbicka’s studies on Natural Semantic Metalanguage
(NSM) which enables comparing words with their alleged cross-linguistic equivalents
and precisely identifying ,semantic differences between them. According to the author,
NSM opens a possibility of compiling the dictionaries of grammar: a handy devices for
linguists and translators. The second part of the volume closes with the paper by Monika
Zasowska in which the author examines selected English binomials which relate to the
senses and expressions of a sensory experience recorded in
Oxford English Dictionary
and
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA).
The third part,
Focus on applied linguistics,
consists of two papers which are devoted
to the field of teaching English as a foreign language. Dorota Tutka presents the results
of a pilot study which involved interviews with English teachers about their priorities in
developing learners’ speaking skills; while Magdalena Walenta explores the possibility of
teaching grammatical forms through the processing of content-based input, as a possible
means of helping learners stretch the limits of their grammar,
without
compromising the
content-oriented, communicative focus of the lesson.
We believe that all the papers which are included in the volume will serve a number
of purposes. First of all, the contributions not only reflect the current state of affairs in the
field of both theoretical and applied linguistics, but they also demonstrate the tendencies
of contemporary research in the field. What is more, the authors of the papers are
young
scholars,
who, at the beginning of their scientific career, decided to prepare original re-
search projects and share them with a broad audience of readers. Secondly, we would like
to highlight the interdisciplinary nature of the presented papers, which proves the im-
mense scope of linguistic studies in Poland. Finally, we believe that the papers will serve
as a foundation and source of inspiration for further research and investigation of the area
of theoretical and applied linguistics.
Maria Wysocka
Dagmara Gałajda
Paweł Zakrajewski
Artur Kijak
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