Table of Contents

Preface . 9

Introduction. A Friend of Knowledge and Wisdom 19
Professor Elżbieta Tabakowska’s publications to date . . . 28
Professor Elżbieta Tabakowska’s MA and PhD students . 41
Norman Davies, A Flourishing Partnership of Two Decades . . .45
Enrique Cay Krebs Dollerup, Elka and Me . . . 53
Mary Snell-Hornby, In and after the Days of Solidarność. Reminiscences of the 1980s and 1990s with Elżbieta Tabakowska . . . 59
Katarzyna Jakubiak, The Guardian of Cooperation . .62

Part I. Language and Cognition
Angeliki Athanasiadou, Scalarity and Subjectivity:
The Case of absolutely . . . 69
Barbara Bacz, S-/Z-Prefi xation and Aspect in Polish .85
Elżbieta Górska, The Reference-point Ability and the English Noun Part and its Cognates . . . 107
Maria Jodłowiec, Mental Architecture and Relevance . . . 129
Henryk Kardela, Event Structure: A Force Dynamics / Absolute Construal Account . . . . 150
Dorota Korwin-Piotrowska, Text Coherence from the Cognitive Perspective – an Analytic Attempt . . . 168
Ronald W. Langacker, The Present Tense in English Adverbial Clauses . 179
Andrzej Pawelec, Metaphor and the Unconscious 210
Günter Radden, Interaction of Modality with Negation . . . …224
Aleksander Szwedek, Polysemy and Metaphorization .255

Part II. Translation and Literature
Teresa Bałuk-Ulewiczowa, Cross-Cultural Communication
Breakdown: A 16th-Century Case Study . .. . 275
Ewa Data-Bukowska, The World from Afar – the World in Close-up. Some Thoughts on Manifestations of Viewing in Translations of Swedish Texts into Polish . 290
Aleksander Gomola, Translation as a Different Conceptualization. A linguistic analysis of a poem by Czesław Miłosz Wykład V and its English translation . 312
Magda Heydel, It Does Inspire Our Admiration! A Translationof Juliusz Słowacki’s Balladyna into English . 324
Riitta Jääskeläinen, Translation Strategies – What Are They? . 343
Katarzyna Jakubiak, Performing Son and Blues: Langston Hughes’s and Ben Frederic Carruthers’s Translation of Motivos de son 362
Agnieszka Pokojska, W.H. Auden’s The Sea and the Mirror in the Polish Translation . 387
Tadeusz Sławek, The Europe-of-Europe, or the Warranty of Translation . 400
Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese, A Shared Understanding of the Topic of Conversation? Translating Krystyna Miłobędzka’s Terseness . .422
Teresa Bela, Building the Barricade: Anna Swir’s Lyrical Epos of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 . . . 432
Ewa Chruściel, Metonymic Compression and Mirror Blends in Lyn Hejinian’s My Life. The Rhythm of Cognition . . . 447
Margaret H. Freeman, Poetic Iconicity . . . .472
Agata Hołobut, Intermedial Iconicity in E.E. Cummings’ Picasso . . .502
Christina Ljungberg, Cognitive Approaches to Literary Interpretation . .519

Part III. Language and Culture
Jerzy Bartmiński, East-West: on the Symmetry of Senses and Cultural Differentiation of Profiles . 543
Elżbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska, On Interplanetary Travels Between Friendly and Unfriendly Worlds 555
Hans-Jürgen Diller, Measuring the Growth of Semantic Fields: the Case of the English Emotion Lexicon 574
Halina Kurek, Conceptual Categories of the Rural Linguistic-Cultural Area . 597
Janina Ozga, Krzysztof Ozga, Phonetic Correctness: between Tyranny and Courtesy . . 611
Mirja Saari, The Rise of Finnish in the 19th Century .622
Peter Franklin, The Intercultural Interaction of British and German Managers: A Comparative Analysis of Self-report Data . 636
Andrzej Kurtyka, On Technical Writing in Translation Training 660

Notes on Contributors .669
Acknowledgments 679