List of contents

PREFACE J.FISIAK, P.CHRUSZCZEWSKI

FACES OF LANGUAGE

• Action Implicative Discourse Analysis Method as a New Approach to American Political Discourse M.BIENIEK
• Cognitive-Pragmatic Aspects of Legitimization of the War-on-Terror P.CAP
• President Bush’s Address to the Nation on U.S. Policy in Iraq: A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach I.A.EL-HUSSARI
• American English Dialectology. A Historical Survey R.KIM
• Sport Announcers Talk. A Linguistic Analysis of Basketball Broadcast D.KSIĘŻARCZYK
• On Universality of Slang Usage: Motives for Using Slang in English and Polish  M.WIDAWSKI
• Proximisation Patterns for Linguistic Legitimisation A.E.WIECZOREK

FACES OF CULTURE

We Own the World N.CHOMSKY

“We – the American …” Speech Communities P.CHRUSZCZEWSKI

Reference to Normality as a Way of Asserting Ingroup Membership. The Woodward Case in the Media  J.CHOVANEC

“Spinning the thread/(t)s” around Images of Time C.CMECIU

Seneca-Cayuga Tribal Dynamism and its Impact on Identity  (Selected Issues Based Mostly on the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma) M.R.ODELSKI

FACES OF LITERATURE

Vladimir Nabokov’s American Adventure M.GÓRSKA

Ineffable Socialities in American Literature. A Preliminary Perspective J.SEMRAU

Rediscovering America. Native American Spirituality in William Carlos Williams’ and Gary Snyder’s Poems  P.ZAZULA

FACES OF POLITICS

Warming up the Cold War. The United States through the Prism of a Polish 1952 Daily Newspaper – an Outline Proposal  A.KNAPIK

The Policy of U.S. Presidents toward Poland 1956-1970 J.TYSZKIEWICZ