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CURRENTS A Journal of Young English Philology Thought and Review Vol. 3: Horizons 2017 Edited by Natalia Pałka & Edyta Lorek-Jezińska Toruń 2017 CURRENTS. A Journal of Young English Philology Thought and Review Vol. 3: Horizons/2017 Edited by Natalia Pałka & Edyta Lorek-Jezińska Editor-in-Chief: Edyta Lorek-Jezińska This online version of the journal is a referential version. All texts licensed under: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. www.currents.umk.pl [email protected] ISSN 2449-8769 Cover designed by: Marta Sibierska Illustration: Caspar David Friedrich—Der Mönch am Meer Logo designed by: Zuzanna Larysz / 007fff Advisory Board: Prof. Martin Butler (University of Oldenburg) Prof. Tyler Kessel (Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, NY) Dr Sigríður Ólafsdóttir (University of Island) Reviews: dr Tymon Adamczewski, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz; dr Anna Drogosz, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn; dr Tomasz Fisiak, University of Łódź; dr Michał Janowski, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz; dr Paulina Mirowska, University of Łódź; dr Katarzyna Rogalska-Chodecka, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń; dr Paweł Schreiber, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz; dr Joanna Stolarek, Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities; dr Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka, State University of Applied Sciences in Konin; dr Wojciech Wachowski, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. Publisher: Academic Association for Doctoral Students at the Department of English, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland / Doktoranckie Koło Naukowe Filologii Angielskiej, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, Katedra Filologii Angielskiej, ul. Bojarskiego 1, 87-100 Toruń. 1st proofreading: Natalia Pałka, Paula Budzyńska, Marta Sibierska, Daria Tyblewska, Emilia Leszczyńska, Edyta Lorek-Jezińska. 2nd proofreading: Natalia Pałka, Paula Budzyńska, Marta Sibierska, Marek Placiński, Joanna Antoniak, Edyta Lorek-Jezińska. Typesetting: Edyta Lorek-Jezińska, Daria Tyblewska. CURRENTS. A Journal of Young English Philology Thought and Review, based in Toruń, is a yearly interdisciplinary journal addressed to young researchers in the field of English studies. It was founded in 2013 by the Academic Association for Doctoral Students at the Department of English, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and its first issue was released in 2015. The journal is dedicated to all aspects of English studies, including linguistics, literary and cultural studies, translation, book editing and ESL teaching. It seeks to explore interconnections and differences between various sub-disciplines and approaches within English philology, providing a platform for debate to young scholars. Currents invites contributions from students of English departments in Poland and abroad, pursuing BA, MA and PhD degree programmes. The major part of each issue consists of academic articles related to the key themes described in call for papers published in the latest issue or on the journal website. A separate section is devoted to book reviews and conference reports. The journal applies a double-blind review procedure; each article is reviewed by two academic referees. Currents is edited by members of the Academic Association for Doctoral Students at the Department of English, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. All submissions and queries should be sent to the journal address: [email protected]. Editor-in-chief Edyta Lorek-Jezińska TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 7 CURRENTS EDITORIAL 9 ARTICLES HORIZONS IN LANGUAGE Marek Placiński 16 Automating Language Research with Programming: A Case for Corpus Linguistics Natalia Pałka 32 Phonetics of Polite and Rude Utterances: A Comparative Analysis and Future Implications Olga Żejmo 47 Perceptual Dialectology: A Comparative Study on Attitudes in Native and Non-native Speakers of English towards Estuary English Daria Tyblewska 64 A Usage-Based Approach to English Loanwords in the Language of Polish Facebook Users Monika Boruta 82 Gesture Typologies at Hand: Applications and Problems. A Case Study Arkadiusz Schmeichel 96 The Neuropsychology of Self-development HORIZONS IN LITERATURE Marlena Hetman 113 Beyond the Horizon—Unmasking Dreams in Eugene O’Neill’s 1920 Play Julia Siepak 122 Post-Modern (Re)Vision of History in A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters by Julian Barnes Justyna Ciesielska 136 Womanism, Feminism, and Discrimination: An Analysis of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple (1982) Joanna Antoniak 154 Retro-Style Detective Fiction: A Postmodern Incarnation of Traditional Crime Fiction Magdalena Kutajczyk 169 Darkness within: Exploring the Mind of E. A. Poe’s “Mad” Killers HORIZONS IN CULTURE Maciej Bukowski 184 Images of the Past and Intertextuality in Quentin Tarantino’s Films Amelia Stańczyk 198 Postmodernism and Family Values in the American Sitcom The Simpsons Kinga Grzywińska 212 The Grotesque in Tim Burton’s Films BOOK REVIEWS Bernadetta Jankowska 226 The Perception of Space and Time in Relation to Irish Affairs Review of Houses, Towns, Cities—the Changing Perception of Space and Time in Contemporary Irish Novels by Joanna Jarząb CONFERENCE REPORTS Marlena Hetman 234 Horizons: An Interdisciplinary Conference for English Philology MA and PhD Students Olivier Harenda 236 Life and Freedom: The Partition of India Revisited 70 Years Later Julia Trzeciakowska 238 The Polish Society for Human and Evolution Studies: 3rd PTNCE Conference ABSTRAKTY 240 ABOUT THE AUTHORS 249 CALL FOR PAPERS 253 CURRENTS. A Journal of Young English Philology Thought and Review Acknowledgements Had it not been for the great involvement of many people, the publication of the issue of CURRENTS would not have been possible. We intend to express thirdour gratitude to Professor dr hab. Mirosława Buchholtz, the Head of the Department of English at Nicolaus Copernicus University, for giving us an opportunity to work on the third issue of CURRENTS and to publish the journal in its printed version. We greatly appreciate invaluable comments provided by our Reviewers. Their attention to detail helped to inspire our young scholars and substantially contributed to the quality of this edition. We would like to thank the supervisors of BA and MA theses, which formed the bases of some of the articles included in this volume as well as doctoral students’ advisors for their useful comments and suggestions. Last but not least, we wish to extend our thanks to our colleagues, who helped us with proof-reading and other editing tasks. CURRENTS The third issue editors. 7 CURRENTS EDITORIAL CURRENTS. A Journal of Young English Philology Thought and Review To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its own needs and desires James Russell Lowell Dear Readers, It is of our great pleasure to deliver the third issue of CURRENTS. A Journal of Young English Philology Thought and Review, edited by members of the Academic Association for Doctoral Students at the Department of English, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. The second issue of CURRENTS was published in 2016 and its leitmotif was pertaining to now and then in a vast array of academic disciplines including but not limited to translations, literary theories, cultural and media studies, linguistics, language evolution and ESL teaching and learning. The third issue of CURRENTS ensues from discussions which took place during the Horizons conference held at our Department on the 20th of October, 2016. The collection that we happily deliver to our Readers’ hands can be seen as a continuation of not only the subjects addressed during that inspiring meeting but also as an answer to the inner need of young researchers to expand and share their academic knowledge. Therefore, this issue serves as a collection of thought-provoking articles on unresearched phenomena, promising new findings and future prospects broadening current academic horizons. The third volume of CURRENTS is divided into three sections: Articles (Horizons in language, Horizons in literature and Horizons in culture), Reviews and Conference reports. Horizons in language Marek Placiński’s Automating Language Research with Programming: A Case for Corpus Linguistics is an opening article of the linguistic section. The author 9 CURRENTS. Vol. 3/2017 of the article aims at describing how empirical language research can be conducted with the use of computational linguistics methodology. The paper departs from the traditional corpus linguistics research which involves using software for processing corpora; in lieu, it depicts how programming may contribute to linguistic research. To achieve this aim, the author first describes the Python programming language and its natural language processing library—Natural Language Toolkit. The corpus research reveals that there is just a minimal difference between the two verbs: both of them allow the same types of complementation and display the same semantic preference. Another approach to language analysis is presented by Natalia Pałka in her article entitled Phonetics of Polite and Rude Utterances: A Comparative Analysis and Future Implications. Building on the data gathered from the website devoted to ESL learners, the author presents an intriguing insight into the relation between prosody and impoliteness and its long-neglected importance for the perception and comprehension of language. The third article entitled Perceptual Dialectology: A Comparative Study on Attitudes in Native and Non-native Speakers of English towards Estuary English by Olga Żejmo is a sociolinguistic study on the South-East