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Young Linguists' Insights Young Linguists’ Insights: Young Linguists’ Insights: Taking interdisciplinary approaches to the fore the to approaches interdisciplinary Taking Insights: Linguists’ Young Taking interdisciplinary approaches to the fore EDITED BY: Monika Połczyńska łukasz P. Pakuła Dorota Jaworska Wydział anglistyki UaM Young Linguists’ Insights: Taking interdisciplinary approaches to the fore Wydział Anglistyki Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu Young Linguists’ Insights: Taking interdisciplinary approaches to the fore Edited by Monika Połczyńska Łukasz P. Pakuła Dorota Jaworska Poznań 2013 Wydano z finansowym wsparciem Wydziału Anglistyki Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu i Fundacji Współpracy Polsko-Niemieckiej (FWPN). This Monograph was financed by the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, and the Foundation of Polish-German Cooperation (FWPN). Cover design: Agnieszka Frydrychewicz Cover photo: Ewa Kowalkowska Typesetting by Pracownia Wydawnicza WA UAM Printed by Zakład Graficzny UAM ul. H. Wieniawskiego, 161-712 Poznań http://wa.amu.edu.pl Copyright ® 2013 Wydział Anglistyki UAM All rights reserved. ISBN 978-83-938256-0-8 CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ......................................................................................... 9 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................. 11 LANGUAGE, SOCIETY & DISCOURSE ...................................................... 17 MIRIAM MEYERHOFF Constraints on language change over the lifespan: Keeping it and keeping it real ........................................................................................... 19 MICHAŁ PAPROCKI, GABRIELA PASTERAK AND PIOTR ROMAŃCZUK Civic and central initiatives targeted at preservation and revival of Wilamowicean: A sociolinguistic study ................................................... 33 MAGDALENA MURAWSKA Humane and gripping vs. House M.D. and professional: Students’ reactions to two medical writing styles .................................... 39 ZORICA TRAJKOVA Persuasion and culture: The pragmatic role of interpersonal metadiscourse in speech ........................................................................... 47 KINGA MÁTYUS The (bAn) variable in the speech of five- and ten-year-old Hungarian children ................................................................................... 55 LANGUAGE & TECHNOLOGY ................................................................... 63 RAFAŁ L. GÓRSKI Polish derived expressive adjectives: A corpus-based study ................... 65 JOHANNES HANDL AND CARSTEN WEBER Robust morphological segmentation within the framework of the slim theory of language .................................................................................... 81 MOJCA KOMPARA Automatic recognition of abbreviations and abbreviations’ expansions in electronic texts: Development and improvement ................................. 87 CARSTEN WEBER AND JOHANNES HANDL View-oriented lexicon design to avoid lexical ambiguity ........................ 93 KATARZYNA MARSZAŁEK-KOWALEWSKA English borrowings in Farsi: A lexicographic and corpus-based study ... 99 6 Contents LANGUAGE & MEANING .......................................................................... 107 MATTHIAS URBAN Cultural explanations for recurrent lexico-semantic associations: The ‘pupil of the eye’ revisited .............................................................. 109 GIOVANNI TALLARICO “Mind the (lexical) gap!”: The bilingual dictionary as a bridge between languages and cultures ............................................................. 115 ANNA JELEC Concreteness of abstract concepts: Objectification as an emergent feature of metaphor ................................................................................ 121 MAŁGORZATA ZAWILIŃSKA-JANAS More than sweet melodies: On the structural diversity of non-literary synaesthetic metaphors in Polish and English ........................................ 127 PAWEŁ KORPAL Subjective vs. objective viewing of think in English ............................. 133 LANGUAGE, MIND & BRAIN .................................................................... 139 KENNETH HUGDAHL Speech perception and auditory laterality: Dichotic listening studies .... 141 ALEXANDER M. RAPP Where in the brain do metaphors become metaphoric? Research on the functional neuroanatomy of nonliteral language .............................. 153 MÁRTA SZÜCS Idiom comprehension in children: The effects of context and semantic type of idioms ......................................................................................... 167 DOROTA JAWORSKA, ANNA CIEŚLICKA AND KAROLINA RATAJ Irony comprehension in schizophrenia .................................................. 175 MARIANNA BOLOGNESI The bilingual mental lexicon and the episodic memory: An experiment with pseudo-verbs .......................................................... 181 ANNA KLECHA L1 inhibition in bilingual language switching ........................................ 189 LANGUAGE IN THE PRESS ....................................................................... 195 SILVANA NESHKOVSKA Markers of verbal irony in Macedonian and English newspaper headlines ................................................................................................. 197 Contents 7 ILZE OĻEHNOVIČA Creative idiomaticity in newspaper language ........................................ 205 MAŁGORZATA KARCZEWSKA Recent English loanwords – neoprestiti – in Italian women’s magazines ............................................................................................... 211 LINGUISTICS: FORMAL & APPLIED ....................................................... 219 ALEKSANDRA BARTCZAK-MESZYŃSKA Limiting space: Movement possibilities in German double object construction ............................................................................................ 221 MICHAELA BENTZ Romanic and Germanic elements in the position of clitics in Cimbrian ... 227 NATALIA CIESIELCZYK The problem of the lack of infinitive in translation of Aristotle’s αθηναιων πολιτεια into Modern Greek .................................................. 233 JOANNA ZIOBRO Feasibility of empirical research in simultaneous interpreting: The issue of local cognitive load ............................................................ 241 NATALIA STOYNOVA Again-reflexives: Some cross-linguistic data ......................................... 249 OLGA TRENDAK Types of form-focused instruction: A theoretical outline ...................... 255 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We would like to wholeheartedly thank the Dean of the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań – Professor Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk – who has always seen great potential in young minds and never ceased to give her unconditional support and motivation for our work. Needless to say, seeing this project to its final completion would not be possible, had it not been for the reviewers from Adam Mickiewicz University who offered their time and professional advice in choosing and improving the best contributions to this volume. REVIEWERS Arleta Adamska-Sałaciak, Piotr Cegłowski, Agnieszka Chmiel, Anna B. Cieślicka, Kamila Dębowska-Kozłowska, Krystyna Droździał-Szelest, Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman, Anna Dziemianko, Anna Ewert, Marta Grochocka, Przemysław Kaszubski, Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak, Roman Kopytko, Karolina Krawczak, Robert Lew, Katarzyna Miechowicz- Mathiasen, Iwona Mazur, Grzegorz Michalski, Joanna Pawelczyk, Magdalena Perdek, Karolina Rataj, Michał Remiszewski, Teresa Siek- Piskozub, Renata Szczepaniak, Aleksander Szwedek, Przemysław Tajsner, Bogusława Whyatt, Bartosz Wiland, Sylwia Wojciechowska INTRODUCTION Young Linguists’ Insights: Taking interdisciplinary approaches to the fore. The seeds of progress germinate, and the shape of the future unfolds in our conviviality, at the con- vergence of all our different paths. It is in this gradual cross-fertilisation that the future of knowledge—and indeed of the world—resides. Federico Mayor The idea behind compiling the present volume was to give the floor to young researchers whose original research poses a particular type of chal- lenge. The activity that the contributors are involved in requires not only expertise in their major field of study, which happens to be language, but also in seemingly distant disciplines through the lens of which certain lin- guistic problems are explored. The interdisciplinary approach is as effec- tive as it is challenging. It offers a fresh perspective, contributes new ideas, and enriches scientific discussion. It does this, at the same time re- quiring thorough knowledge of two or more disciplines, and thus asks for humility on the part of the open-minded researcher. Whatever attitude to interdisciplinarity one has, it seems almost trivial to state that sciences do converge. Even a cursory glance at the methodologies adopted in modern linguistic research reveals that it is via blending paradigms that scientists arrive at new and more nuanced insights. Because it pushes the bounda- ries of knowledge, interdisciplinarity gives birth to new research fields. Complexities which might have been overlooked or ironed out now come to light. Above all, the movement towards interdisciplinarity can be viewed as a testimony to the fact that language does not exist in a vac- uum. In line with this, research performed on language perceived as an autonomous system – langue, as de Saussure
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