Book of Abstracts Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self 25th Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English Szczyrk, 31 March — 02 April 2016 Institute of English and Institute of English Cultures and Literatures University of Silesia in Katowice IN MEMORIAM Jan Rusiecki Janusz Arabski Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Professor of Linguistics at the University of University of Warsaw, died on September Silesia, died on September 15, 2015. 20, 2015 at the age of 89. He was a co- He was a co-founder of the Faculty of founder and a past President of PASE and Philology and a past Director of the also a founding member, the first president Institute of English, University of Silesia, a and an Honorary President of IATEFL co-founder of the Silesian School of Poland. He was an active member of many Economics and Languages in Katowice, and scholarly societies, among them Societas also the President of The International Linguistica Europaea. Society of Applied Psycholinguistics. The immense legacy of knowledge and expertise left by both Professor Rusiecki and Professor Arabski, as well as their contributions to the development of English studies in Poland have laid the foundations for today’s research in linguistic 25th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self Szczyrk, 31st March – 2nd April, 2016 P R O G R A M M E Thursday, 31st March 2016 07:30 Breakfast – 08:30 Conference opening Professor Ryszard Koziołek (Pro-Rector of the University of Silesia) 08:30 Professor Rafał Molencki (Dean of the Faculty of Philology) – Professor Liliane Louvel (President of ESSE) / Professor Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak (President of PASE) 09:00 Professor Andrzej Łyda, Director of the Institute of English at the University of Silesia Professor Jacek Mydla, Director of the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures Professor Danuta Gabryś-Barker (on behalf of the Organizing Committee) 09:00 Plenary session – Chair: Liliane Louvel 10:00 Claus Schatz-Jakobsen: On the uses and abuses of literature for culture and life 10:00 Coffee break – 10:30 Section A Section B Section C Section D LITERATURE LITERATURE LINGUISTICS APPLIED LINGUISTICS Chair: Stankomir Nicieja Chair: Anna Kędra-Kardela Chair: Adam Wojtaszek Chair: Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel 10:30 Andrzej Wicher: Anna Walczuk: Henryk Kardela: Enric Llurda, Vasilica Mocanu: – The matter of cosmopolis. From split “self” towards Speaking about oneself. A comparative analysis of the 11:00 Multi-cultural motifs in “self” unified: travelling to A Cognitive Grammar identity construction of mobility Geoffrey Chaucer’s work the Holy Land in Muriel analysis of reflexives students in Finland, Romania, and Spark’s novel The Catalonia Mandelbaum Gate Ewa Wiśniewska-Steciuk: Anna Cholewa-Purgał: Agnieszka Wawrzyniak: Mirosław Pawlak: Anthropological interests in Narratives of conflict and The conceptual construal The language self in the learning of 11:00 the works of Ursula K. Le reconciliation of in-between of ME “trouthe” in “The a second and third language: – Guin selves and worlds in Charles Canterbury Tales” stability and change 11:30 Williams’s Descent into Hell and All Hallows’ Eve Joanna Bukowska: Anna Białkowska: Weronika Kaźmierczak: Iga Maria Lehman, Robin Anderson: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Buried “Prisoners of the Earth, The term “battle”, its Academic identities and literacy 11:30 Giant as a perilous quest come out” - links and emergence and semantic practices. A few remarks on the – through the unchartered parallels between William evolution in English: a influence of EAP instruction on the 12:00 territory of memory, Burroughs’s writing and corpus-based study construction of disciplinary identities vengeance and love gnostic thought of Italian tertiary students 12:00 Lunch – 13:30 13:30 Plenary session – Chair: Andrzej Łyda 14:30 Rafał Molencki: Multiculturalism, multilingualism and the self in Medieval English Section A Section B Section C Section D LITERATURE CULTURE LINGUISTICS APPLIED LINGUISTICS Chair: David Schauffler Chair: Aleksandra Chair: Agnieszka Solska Chair: Liliana Piasecka Kędzierska Paulina Pietras: Kornelia Boczkowska: Alicja Dziedzic-Rawska: Marek Derenowski: Self/Other encounter in the Spaceflight as the Expressing the prison The influence of explicit culture 15:00 shadow of Great History – (trans)national spectacle: self teaching on the development of – alterity in American Trilogy Technological sublime and foreign language learners’ 15:30 by Philip Roth American identity in early intercultural awareness Imax space films Maja Daniel: Tomasz Gnat: Aleksandra Pasławska: Pawel Sobkowiak: The virtuous Yankee’s and Moon Nazis and interstellar Linguistic creativity in Critical thinking in the intercultural 15:30 the tough cowboy’s burden: communists. Designing Polish media discourse: context: Investigating EFL textbooks – regional identity issues in cultures and artificial a cognitive grammar 16:00 Annie Proulx’s Vermont and societies in interactive perspective on English Wyoming short stories entertainment borrowings Asma Chahed: Agnieszka Kliś-Brodowska: Sepideh Firoozkoohi: Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel: 16:00 Regional Identity in the Multiculturalism in Literary representations Is foreign language enjoyment – literary Representation of videogame studies: current of voices between related to proficiency? 16:30 the hybrid in William research and future cultures" Faulkner’s “Light in August” perspectives Angelika Szopa: Ewa Klęczaj-Siara: Maria Wysocka: Teresa Maria Włosowicz: Multicultural Dissonance: Reading ethnic American Language Learning, Text reception in L1, L2 and L3, as 16:30 Doris Lessing’s Cultural children’s literature and the Language Teaching, and exemplified by excerpts from Louise – Migration and questions of cultural Our Selves L. Hay’s self-help book “You Can 17:00 Representation of the Self authenticity Heal Your Life” 17:00 Coffee break – 17:30 Section A Section B Section C Section D LITERATURE CULTURE LITERATURE LINGUISTICS / APPLIED Chair: Leszek Drong Chair: Julia Szołtysek Chair: Agnieszka LINGUISTICS Łowczanin Chair: Enric Llurda 17:30 Aleksandra Kędzierska: Dorota Malina: Tomasz Fisiak: Liliana Piasecka: – That complex Irish self: A haughty sniff versus a The ethnic Other as a International students´ perception 18:00 Dermot Bolger’s “Walking spoonful of sugar, or who is Gothic villain: the case of gender-marked forms of address the Road” Mary Poppins? of Charlotte Dacre’s and occupational lexis “Zofloya, or the Moor” 18:00 Beata Piątek: Brygida Pudełko: Fathi Neifar: Rafał Gołąbek: – The downside of Marriage, divorce, sexuality Samuel Richardson’s On socially and culturally motivated 18:30 globalisation: provincial and gender differences in “Pamela”as a narrative differences in men´s and women´s Ireland meets multicultural the Edwardian era of conflict and language: causative get- Europe in Edna O’Brien’s reconciliation constructions in the dialogues “The Little Red Chairs” passages in F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015) novels “The beautiful and Damned” and “Tender is the Night” 18:30 Izabela Curyłło-Klag: Ewa Wylężek: Krzysztof Jański: Yuliia Lysanets: – Representation of Outsourcing eroticism Principles of constructing “False Friends” in the language of 19:00 multicultural communities in an inter-cultural medicine as a challenge for Edna O’Brien’s “The Little (micro-)community in multilingual health-care Red Chairs” Terry Pratchett’s nation environment 20.00 Dinner Friday, 1st April 2016 07:30 – Breakfast 09:00 09:00 – Plenary session 1 10.00 Chair: Henryk Kardela Jean Marc Dewaele: Why multiculturalism and multilingualism enrich the self? 10:00 – Plenary session 2 11:00 Chair: Ewa Borkowska Anthony David Barker: Finessing the multilingual world in commercial English cinema 11:00 – Coffee break 11:30 11:30 – Section A Section B Section C Section D 12:00 CULTURE LITERATURE LINGUISTICS APPLIED LINGUISTICS Chair: Eugenia Sojka Chair: Jadwiga Uchman Chair: Jean-Marc Dewaele Chair: Maria Wysocka Stankomir Nicieja: Joanna Kozieńska: Urszula Michalik, Iwona Katarzyna Ożańska-Ponikwia: Assembling a new self in The self in conflict: spiritual Sznicer: Bilingualism and multicultural America: and political struggle in T. S. Awareness of cultural issues Multilingualism from the conflict and reconciliation in Eliot’s “Murder in the in the use of humour in qualitative and quantitative Clint Eastwood’s “Gran Cathedral” multicultural working point of view Torino” environment Monika Kocot: Ewa Błasiak: Agnieszka Solska: Danuta Gabryś-Barker: Wor(l)ds. Apart: Fluid Queer, English, a writer and Puns, “shuanguan” and (Fairly) New approaches to Identity in Native American a Berliner: modernist “kalambury2”: a cross- multilingualism research: 12:00 – Narratives identity as a selve-in- linguistic study of punning Focus on metaphors and 12:30 between in Christopher the English, the Polish and similes Isherwood’s “Goodbye to the Chinese way Berlin” 12:30 – Edyta Wood: Urszula Gołębiowska: Łukasz Matusz: Ingrid Bello Rodzeń: 13:00 Native American lives in The self between two Taboos and swearing words: Considerations for the use of between cultures in selected “incongruous and cross-linguistic universalities online questionnaires in contemporary Self- incompatible cultures” in and peculiarities multilingualism research Narratives Paul Bowles’s “The Sheltering Sky” 13:00 – Lunch 14:30 14:30 – Plenary session 15:30 Chair: Leszek Drong Frank Ferguson: Beyond the hamely tongue: Ulster-Scots literature and multiculturalism