Contacts and Contrasts in Cultures and Languages

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This volume provides descriptions and interpretations of social and cognitive phenomena as well as processes that emerge at the interface of languages and cultures in the context of contrastive and contact linguistics and media discourse. Different contexts are explored with rich empirical findings and authentic exemplifying materials. The book includes fifteen papers, divided into three parts. Part 1 addresses conceptual reflection on languages and cultures in contact and contrast, while Part 2 focuses on contact linguistics and borrowing. Part 3 discusses cultural and linguistic aspects of media discourses.
This volume provides descriptions and interpretations of social and cognitive phenomena as well as processes that emerge at the interface of languages and cultures in the context of contrastive and contact linguistics and media discourse. Different contexts are explored with rich empirical findings and authentic exemplifying materials. The book includes fifteen papers, divided into three parts. Part 1 addresses conceptual reflection on languages and cultures in contact and contrast, while Part 2 focuses on contact linguistics and borrowing. Part 3 discusses cultural and linguistic aspects of media discourses.
Goes beyond the “usual”, compartmentalized linguistic research and explores the phenomena of contact and contrasts between languages and cultures in different contexts Provides rich empirical findings on social and cognitive phenomena with regard to contact-situated contrastive studies and media discourses Interdisciplinary in nature, it sheds new light on the phenomena of languages and cultures from the perspective of discourse-based cognitive approaches, exemplified by authentic materials

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Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk

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