Contacts and Contrasts in Cultures and Languages

Part 1 Communication and Conceptual systems

1. David Pichaske (Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall, Minnesota, U. S. A I am Not a Gobi Girl! Observations on Cultural Similarities and Differences Based on Four Years of Fulbright Fellowships in Poland, Latvia, and Outer Mongolia

2. Joanna Klosowska (University of Warsaw) (Un)successful communication: Sex-based differences and contrasts

3. Michael B. Hinner (TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany) Meaning, Perception, and Culture in International Business Discourse: A Theoretical Analysis of Potential Conflicts

4. Aneta Dlutek (State University of Applied Sciences in Plock) Expressing modality in commercial agreements and contracts - the analysis of Polish-English parallel texts

5. Awadh G. Baawaidhan Culture Diversity in English - Arabic Proverbs (University of Lodz)

6. Krzysztof Kosecki (University of Lodz) Ernest Hemingway's "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot": A Narrative of a Failed Romance

7. Marcin Trojszczak (State University of Applied Sciences in Konin) Similarities and contrasts in multisensory metaphorical conceptualisations of memories in Polish and English8. Agata Wezyk (University of Lodz, Instytut Medycyny Pracy im. J. Nofera w Lodzi), Metaphors of pride in Polish and English - a corpus-based study

Part 2 Languages in contact

9. Kathryn Hudson (Department of Anthropology, Department of Linguistics University at Buffalo) Blending In: Hybridity, Identity and Creolization

10. Ingrid Petkova (University of Veracruz, Mexico) The Presence of Loanwords of Nahuatl Origin in the Press of Veracruz, Mexico

Part 3 Contacts and Contrasts in Media Discourse

11. Marco Venuti University of Catania & Antonio Fruttaldo University of Naples Federico II) Contrasting News Values in Newspaper Articles and Social Media: A Discursive Approach to the US Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage12. Anna Baczkowska (Department of

Dr. habil. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk is a full professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the State University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Poland and head of the Department of Research in Language, Literature and Translation. She previously served for many years as head of the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Lodz, Poland. She is the author or editor of numerous books and papers on cognitive and corpus linguistics, collaborative knowledge acquisition and translation. She is a recipient of Polish Academy of Sciences awards, was selected as an Honorary Professor in Linguistics and Modern English Language at the University of Lancaster, UK, and has been invited to read papers at conferences and give workshops at various European, American and Asian universities.