List of contents

Kamila Turewicz – Preface
Clifford Geertz – A Life of Learning

Faces of Cultural and Anthropological Linguistics

1. Piotr P. Chruszczewski – On the Fractal Nature of Linguistic and Cultural Communication
2. Jan Cygan – Gothic at a Glance
3. Kathleen R. Gibson – Customs and Cultures in Animals and Humans
4. Marcin Walczyński – Selected Aspects of Multilingualism in Papua New Guinea
5. Anna Wierzbicka – Russian Cultural Scripts: the Theory of Cultural Scripts and its Applications

Faces of Lexis

1. Elena Bonta – Argumentation – a Special Form of (Inter)Action
2. Konrad Klimkowski – Selected Remarks on the Concept of the Lexicon in Modern Linguistic Thought
3. Ioan Lucian Popa – A Case of Logical Synonimity: Fanic Synonimity
4. Elżbieta Tabakowska – Iconicity in Language – from Julius Caesar to Sebastian Janikowski
5. Maciej Widawski – Motives for Using Slang: Investigations Based on Citational Evidence

Faces of Cognitivism

1. Henryk Kardela – The Dynamicity of Categorization in Cognitive Grammar
2. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk – Faces of Contemporary Cognitivism

Faces of Discourse

1. Camellia Cmeciu – Fairy Tales – Political Intertextuality
2. Magda Czyrek – Polish Criminal Court Cases as the Example of Linguistic Vagueness
3. Karin Ebeling – The Language of War in the Media
4. Beata Gołębiewska – Hyperbole as a Tool of Manipulation
5. Cornelia Ilie – Micro-level Coherence Patterns in Institutional Discourse
6. Ewa Komorowska – Directive Speech Acts in Linguistic Communication
7. Monika Kopytowska – News in the Minds of Men
8. Agata Stopińska – Doing Gender in the Irish Press

Faces of Humor

1. Władysław Chłopicki – Humour and Cognition: Dynamics of Characters and Events
2. Christie Davies – How Jokes Change and May Be Changed: Simplifying, Transforming and Revealing

Faces of Formal Linguistics

1. Jouni Rostila – Construction Grammar as a Functionalist Generative Grammar
2. Ewa Rudnicka-Mosiądz, Dorota Klimek – Grammatical Aspect and Semantic Aspect

Faces of Translation Studies

1. Gloria Corpas Pastor, Jorge Leive Rojo – On the Rendering of System-equivalent Phraseological Units
2. Olgierda Furmanek – Psychodynamics of the Interpreted Event
3. Tomasz P. Górski – On Translating Culture: Between Domestication and Foreignization
4. Anna Strużyk – On the Transfer of Meaning in the Translation Process

Faces of Art and Literature

1. Doina Cmeciu – Towards a Poetic Discourse
2. Michał Garcarz – Talking Movies

3. Izabella Anna Malej – Polyphonic Provocation: the Nude in the Art of Cubo-Futurism