Empirical Methods in Language Studies

Contents: Janusz Badio: Events and sentences in story construal of English-native and Polish-foreign language users: experimental methodology and outcomes - Daniel Karczewski: Factors determining genericity in the light of experimental studies of generics - Ida Stria: Linguistic worldview of esperanto: a questionnaire method - Krzysztof Kosecki: Comprehension of metaphor-based non-literality in signed languages by the hearing persons - Agnieszka St?pkowska: Second language acquisition in the canton of Zurich: the Swiss are fond of English - Valerie Bourdier/Agnes Leroux: No problem or no problems? Special problems raised by the reference to absence in the sequences no+N-O and no+N-s - Dylan Glynn: The socio-cultural conceptualisation of femininity: corpus evidence for cognitive models - Karolina Krawczak: Negative self-evaluative emotions from a cross-cultural perspective: A case of «shame» and «guilt» in English and Polish - Naoki Nakamata: A categorization of conditional Expressions in Japanese: insights from a lexical approach - Piotr Twardzisz: Identifying and measuring personification in journalistic discourse - Jaros?aw Wili?ski: A covarying collexeme analysis of the verb play and the manner adjunct in the domain of soccer - Jacek Tadeusz Wali?ski: Time in structuring fictive motion: an empirical corpus-based study - Barbara Konat/Konrad Juszczyk: Multimodal communication in career coaching sessions: lexical and gestural corpus study - Victoria Kamasa: Research design in corpus-supported critical discourse analysis - Eva Malkova: Ellipsis and sentence fragments in Ian McEwan's Amsterdam: their effect on meaning - Olga Berdina: Meaning change of gradual verbs denoting colour in English - Iryna V. Malynovska: «Shuttle» methods in the analysis of metaphor in English philosophical discourse - Miros?aw Ba?ko: Iconic effects in loanword adaptation - Katarzyna Stadnik: Chaucer's selected narratives: through the looking-glass of medieval imagery - Martin Hinton: Alternatives to intuition in linguistics research - Anna B?czkowska: Compliments in film subtitles: a pragmatic and cognitive study of translations from English into Polish - Natalya Savoiskaya: Specific universals: a comparative analysis of subject of evaluation construal.