Language Function, Structure, and Change

Language, Function, Structure, and Change brings together sixteen contributions by leading Polish linguists on cognitive and contrastive linguistics, semantics and pragmatics, historical linguistics, and language teaching and translation studies. The papers contained in this volume bear witness to the continued development and theoretical diversification of the field of English languages study and general linguistics in Poland. The volume is dedicated to Tomasz P. Krzeszowski, professor of linguistics at Warsaw University, an outstanding Polish linguist whose contribution to the theory of Contrastive and Cognitive Linguistics has been internationally recognized. Contents: Wieslaw Oleksy: Tomasz P. Krzeszowski on Language Theory, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Pedagogy, and Translation Theory and Practice: A Chronological Bibliography Jan Cygan: Four or two? On the basics of life and language--Roman Kalisz: Self--detachment in official letters of Polish prisoners--Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky: Informativity in conversation--Michal Post Axiological assessments underlying illocutionary and perlocutionary acts Piotr Stalmaszczyk: A note on Frege's saturated functions and predication types--Aleksander Szwedek: Shared or inherited entailments among metaphors?--Kamila Taurewicz: Grammatical structure as conceptual structure: evidenc from language death---Zdzislaw Wasik: On two concepts of verbal sign in Ferdinand de Saussure's Cour de linguistique generale--Wieslaw Awedyk: Error analysis and sound change in progress--Adam Pasciki: Some meanings of the adnominal genitive in Old English--Jerzy Welna: Triggers of sound change in unaccented syllables (Between statistics and phonology)--MariaDakowska: A cognitive view of foreign language teaching. Current trends and prospects for the future--Bogdan Krakowian: Receptive grammar of English for Polish adult learners--Wojciech Kubinski: Prolegomenon to a congnitive theory of translation?--Alicja Pisarska: The notion of error in transalation--Elzbieta Tabakowska: Aspect and Tense in Narrative: an English original and a Polish transalation.