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UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

British Literature Lecturer Anna Branach-Kallas PhD Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, 1st t year, winter and summer semester

ECTS points Winter term -1 Summer term -1 + 5 for the exam

Number of hours

15 per semester

Type of course Lecture Course description

The aim of the course is to discuss the most important works in the history of English literature from Beowulf to late twentieth century. The course introduces basic literary terms and aspects of literary theory.

Type of credit Winter semester – Pass/Fail (Zal/Nzal) Summer semester – examination: A numerical grade on a 5 to 2 scale (5 being the top grade)

Credit requirements

Attendance

Literature Jerzy Strzetelski et al. 1987. Historia literatury angielskiej tablice chronologiczne. Warszawa: PWN David McDowall. An Illustrated History of Britain. Longman-Pearson Education

British Literature Lecturer Anna Branach-Kallas PhD Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, 1st year, winter and summer semester

ECTS points Winter semester - 3 Summer semester -3

Number of hours

30 per semester

Type of course Class Course description

The aim of the course is to discuss the most important works in the history of English literature from Beowulf to late twentieth century. The course introduces basic literary terms and aspects of literary theory.

Type of credit A numerical grade on a 5 to 2 scale (5 being the top grade). Credit requirements

Passing the test. Active participation in class.

Literature Helsztyński, Stanisław. Specimens of English Poetry and Prose.. The Oxford Anthologies of English Literature. Eds. Frank Kermode and John Hollander. 6 volumes.

Language studies Lecturer Wiktor Pskit, PhD Type, year and semester of the course


ECTS points 4 Number of hours

30 per semester


The aim of the course is to provide students with the knowledge of basic issues concerning English phonetics, phonology and morphology. Topics: speech organs, classification and features of English sounds (consonants and vowels), phonemes and allophones, types of transcription, the syllable and its structure, word stress, connected speech, the definition of morpheme, the structure of words, word-formation processes in English.

Type of credit Winter semester – pass/fail (zal/nzal) Summer semester – exam

Credit requirements

Attendance and active participation, written tests, passing the exam

Literature Bauer, L. 1983 English Word-formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Giegrich, H.J. 1993. English Phonology. An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Gimson, A.C. 1992. An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English (revised by S. Ramsaran). Edward Arnold Hughes, A., P. Trudgill, and D. Watt. 2005. English Accents and Dialects. Hodder Arnold Ladefoged, P. 1993. A Course in Phonetics. Harcourt Brace Quirk, R., S. Greenbaum, G. Leech and J. Svartvik (eds.). 1985. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. Longman Roach, P. 1994. English Phonetics and Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Szpyra, J. and W. Sobkowiak. 1995. Workbook in English Phonetics for Polish Students of English. Nakom

Introduction to language acquisition and learning Lecturer Krzysztof Strzemeski, MA Type, year and semester of the course


ECTS points Winter semester – 4 summer semester – 7

Number of hours

30

Type of course Obligatory practical English class Course description

The aim of the class is to introduce the most important concepts, theories and terms related to language learning and language acquisition, as well as teaching students academic study skills. The content includes: individual variations among language learners (intelligence, motivation, attitudes and personality factors); learning strategies (direct and indirect, both theory and practice); theories of language acquisition: behaviourism, innatism, interactionism, connectionism and information processing; the concepts of bilingualism, lateralization, interlanguage, immersion, etc., plus basic knowledge related to the learning of the particular skills and their components.

Type of credit Pass/fail; ends with an exam with a numerical grade on a 5 to 2 scale (5 being the top grade)

Credit requirements

Active participation in class activities (including student presentations) and completion of Moodle-based activities; all tests must be passed.

Literature Brown, H.D. 1994. Teaching by Principles. N.J. Prentice Hall Regents. Hedge, Tricia. 2000. Teaching and Learning in the Language Classroom. OUP. Komorowska, H. 2002. Metodyka nauczania językow obcych. Fraszka Edukacyjna. Lightbown,P.M. and N. Spada, 1999. How Languages are Learned. OUP. Oxford, R., 1990. Language Learning Strategies: What Every Teacher Should Know. Boston, Massachusetts: Heinle & Heinle Publishers.

Philosophy of Language Lecturer Sławomir Wacewicz, PhD Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, 1st year, winter term


30


This course provides a general introduction to the topic of both language and the study of language. The guiding perspective is that of philosophy, with the focus on the status of language and its place in the spectrum of organized systems. The complementary perspectives are that of linguistics and its subdisciplines as well as selected neighbouring disciplines. The two main objectives of the course are, firstly, to make the students acquainted with a broad range of basic linguistic terminology, and secondly, to introduce an interdisciplinary and multifaceted approach to language and its study.

Type of credit Examination

Credit requirements

Positive examination grade

Literature Brown, Keith (ed.). 2006. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition. Oxford: Elsevier Crystal, David. 1990. A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics. Cambridge: Basil Blackwell. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara (ed). 1993. Ways to language. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego Pinker, Steven. 1994. The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Pinker, Steven. 2007. The Stuff Of Thought: Language As A Window Into Human Nature. New York: Viking. Yule, George. 2006. The Study of Language. Third Edition. Cambridge: CUP.

Writing Lecturer Marcin Leszczyński, PhD Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, 1st year, winter semester


30

Type of course class Course description

The course is oriented at writing cohesive and coherent non-fiction paragraphs. During the classes the students will learn various paragraph structures and methods of paragraph development (description, process, comparison, contrast, cause and effect) as well as the basics of punctuation.

Type of credit A numerical grade on a 5 to 2 scale (5 being the top grade) Credit requirements

Attendance, satisfactory marks for all the paragraphs written at home and in class

Literature Adams-Tukiendorf, M. and D.Rydzak. Developing Writing Skills: A Manual for EFL Students. Arnaudet, M and M. Barrett. Paragraph Development. Evans, V. Successful Writing. Nolasco, R. Writing: upper-intermediate. Reid, J. and M. Lindstrom. The Process of Paragraph Writing. Stephens, M. Practise Advanced Writing.

Writing Lecturer Joanna Mstowska, MA Type, year and semester of the course

writing, first year, first semester


30

Type of course practical English course Course description

The course is oriented at writing cohesive and coherent non-fiction paragraphs. During the classes the students will learn various paragraph structures and methods of paragraph development (exemplification, enumeration, description, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, etc.). The students will also learn the basics of punctuation.

Type of credit zaliczenie Credit requirements

satisfactory paragraphs written at home and in-class, satisfactory performance in class assignments, attendance

Literature Arnaudet and Barrett. Paragraph Development. Reid and Lindstrom. The Process of Paragraph Writing. Macpherson. English for Writers and Translators.

Writing (Practical English) Lecturer Krzysztof Strzemeski, MA Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, 1st year, summer semester

ECTS points 9 points for the entire Practical English module (all its courses) Number of hours

30


Paragraph writing will be reviewed; in the following classes students will proceed to writing multi-paragraph texts, like letters, reports, minutes, instructions or reviews. Attention will be paid to text construction as well as to language accuracy. A process approach will be applied.

Type of credit Numerical grade contributing to the overall Practical English grade. Credit requirements

Participation in class activities and successful completion of all in-class and home assignments.

Literature See the first semester literature; Stephens, M. Practise Advanced Writing will be the basic coursebook.

Practical English grammar Lecturer Katarzyna Piątkowska, PhD

Dorota Gorzycka, MA

Type, year and semester of the course



30 per semester


The aim of the course is to acquaint the students with a selected range of grammatical structures at the level of morphology (word formation, inflection, derivation, compounding, etc.) and syntax. On the assumption that the students of the first year have the basic knowledge of English and the requisite language skills, the issues discussed in the course will pertain to the grammatical structures adequate to advanced and proficiency levels. The emphasis will be on a possibly comprehensive presentation of these issues. Taking into account the nature of the grammar issues comprised in the first year syllabus, a considerable part of the course is devoted to phraseology and idiomaticity. Particular attention is given to those issues that might pose difficulties for the speakers of Polish. As large portion of the material comprised in the course requires memorising, the issues presented will be implemented with the use of a wide range of lexical and grammatical exercises.

Type of credit Grade in the winter semester Exam in the summer semester

Credit requirements

Satisfactory grades in the tests and the final exam

Literature Thomson, A.J. and Martinet, A.V. A Practical English Grammar Mańczak-Wohlfeld, E, NiŜegorodcew, A, and Willim, E A Practical Grammar of English Chalker, S A Student's English Grammar - Workbook Gethin, H Grammar in Context- Proficiency Level English Bywater, F.V, A Proficiency Course in English Evans, V CPE Use of English Gude, K and Duckworth. M Proficiency Masterclass

English Phonetics and Conversation Lecturer Sowińska Agnieszka, MA Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, Practical English Classes: year 1 / semesters 1 and 2

ECTS points 2 per semester Number of hours

60

Type of course Practical English Classes: 1 year class Course description

The primary goal of the course is to develop students' pronunciation and conversation skills sufficiently so as to allow them to communicate effectively with native speakers and to prepare them to pass their first-year oral exam. Other goals include: providing students with theoretical background concerning the sound system of the English language, helping students become aware of the nature and correct production of English speech sounds both in isolation and within words and sentences (taking the RP accent as a model for practical purposes) and so improving their pronunciation to the extent that it sounds native-like. Although theoretical aspects will be gradually introduced, special emphasis will be put on lab

and home practice (self-rehearsal and self-study are necessary). The course starts with an introduction to the phonetic alphabet and transcription system. The other units of the course will focus on: English vowels, diphthongs, English consonants, and their place and manner of articulation, weak forms, assimilation and linking processes, stress and rhythm, developing listening comprehension skills and conversation practice. Classes will involve a wide range of exercises: listening comprehension tasks ( e.g. Listening to the News, a BBC documentary – The Story of English), discrimination and production tasks (e.g. drills), prepared and improvised speeches and dialogues and others. In order to facilitate the acquisition of English phonemes, comparison between English and Polish segments will be introduced where appropriate. The course is designed for students who are determined to practise English phonetics (Standard British English) as in contrast to General American phonetics. Students phonetics will be diagnosed during the first weeks of classes. First Certificate (FCE)-level language is required.

Type of credit Final grade Credit requirements

The students participating in the course will be assessed on the basis of both their in-class performance and home assignments (readings, recordings, transcription exercises, dictation and transcription tests). Their progress in the production of individual phones initially and then suprasegmental features will be continuously assessed and discussed during individual meetings or office hours. Regular attendance is essential.

Literature Baker Ann, 2006. Ship or Sheep? Third Edition - Student's Book and Audio CDs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ladefoged, P. 2000. A Course In Phonetics. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. Mortimer, C. 1984. Elements of English Pronunciation. Cambridge: CUP. Ponsonby, M. 1982. How Now, Brown Cow? A Course in the Pronunciation of English. Cambridge: CUP. Wells, J.C. 2008. Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. Third Edition. London: Longman Internet sources: http://www.shiporsheep.com/ http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/fa/files/ifa/pigulka/spis_tresci.htm http://www.eptotd.btinternet.co.uk/vm/soundmachines.htm http://www.soundsofenglish.org/ http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~llsroach/encyc.pdf

YEAR 2

Postcolonial Theory and Practice Lecturer Mirosława Buchholtz, professor Type, year and Undergraduate studies, 2nd year, spring semester

semester of the course ECTS points 2 Number of hours

30

Type of course Seminar Course description

Seminar aims at exploring key concepts in postcolonial studies and comparing theories with literary, cinematic and journalistic practice.

Type of credit Grade Credit requirements

Attendance and tests

Literature Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths i Helen Tiffin. 1998. Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies. London and New York: Routledge Buchholtz, Mirosława, (ed.). 2009. Studia postkolonialne w literaturoznawstwie i kulturoznawstwie anglojęzycznym. Toruń: Wydawnictwo UMK Reliable Internet sources

Varieties of World Englishes Lecturer Dr. Michael Hornsby Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, 2nd year, winter semester


30


This seminar will explore the various dialects and accents of the English language from a sociolinguistic variationist perspective. By the end of the course, students will be able to describe the major varieties of world Englishes using both linguistic and sociolinguistic frames of reference and be able to identify salient features of such varieties in written and spoken texts.

Type of credit Seminar with active participation required Credit requirements

Continuous assessment

Literature Viereck et al. (2002) dtv-Atlas Englische Sprache http://www.world-english.org/accent.htm Collins & Mees (2008) Practical Phonetics and Phonology: A Resource Book for Students

LANGUAGE VARIAT IO N IN D IACHRONIC, REGIONAL AND SOCIAL D IMENSIONS

Seminar Lecturer Waldemar Skrzypczak


Undergraduate studies, 2nd year, winter term


30

Type of course Seminar (elective) Course description

The aim of the course Language Variation in Diachronic, Regional and Social Dimensions is to familiarize the students with the main stages of development in the history of English (the diachronic perspective) and also with the broad spectrum of varieties in Present-Day English (regional and social variation in the synchronic perspective). The students will analyze the main phonological, lexical and syntactic changes throughout Old English, Middle English and Modern English periods, as well as will get acquainted with the most important distinguishing features contrasting Standard British English and Standard American English - to be followed by a systematic presentation of Scottish English, Irish English, Australian English and Varieties of English in the Post-Colonial Context (e.g. in The Caribbean Region, in Africa and India).

Type of credit Credit with a grade Credit requirements

Attendance, reading assignments, mini-presentations, an essay, a test.

Literature Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge Fisiak, Jacek. 1993. An Outline History of English. Poznań: Kantor Wydawniczy SAWW McCrum, Robert, William Cran and Robert MacNeil. 1986. The Story of English.Penguin Books (a book and video cassettes) Skrzypczak, Waldemar. 2004. “Globalne i lokalne aspekty języka angielskiego, oraz zapytania o przyszłość.” Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych w Toruniu, Silva Rerum NKJO. Nr 1, 26-30 Thrudgill, Peter and Jean Hannah. 2002. International English: A guide to the varieties of standard English. London and New York: Arnold and Oxford University Press.

Contemporary British Drama Seminar Lecturer Edyta Lorek - Jezińska, PhD Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, 2nd year, summer semester


30


The main objective of the course is to examine contemporary British drama in its social and political context. The course focuses on post-war tendencies in British drama, embracing such phenomena as social realist

drama, kitchen sink drama, epic drama, Irish, Welsh and Scottish theatre, and feminist drama. The texts studied in the course include plays by Osborne, Wesker, Bond, Brenton, Stoppard, McGrath, Churchill, Friel, and Kane.


Attendance, Active participation, Essay or test, Short oral presentation.

Literature Hilton, J. (ed.). 1994. New Directions in Theatre. Basingstoke: Macmillan Itzin, C. 1980. Stages in the Revolution: Political Theatre in Britain since 1968. London: Eyre Methuen Wiszniowska, M. 1997. by action dignified: British Theatre 1968 -1995: Text and Context. Toruń: Wydawnictwo UMK Styan, J. L. 2002. Modern Drama in Theory and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Innes, Ch. 2002. Modern British Drama: the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Shank, Th. 1996. Contemporary British Theatre. London: Macmillan Keyssar, H.1993. Feminist Theatre: An Introduction to Plays of Contemporary British and American Women. Basingstoke: Macmillan

Literary Theories Seminar Lecturer Dr Dorota Guttfeld Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studeis, 2nd year, winter semester


30 (winter semester)

Type of course seminar Course description

The aim of the seminar is to introduce basic terms and illustrate various approaches offered by literary theories which the students may use to analyse literary texts. The course will illustrate the uses of structuralist, postrstructuralist, psychoanalytical, Marxist, feminist, New Historicist and postcolonial approaches to literature.

Type of credit grade Credit requirements

Attendance and active participation, analysis a chosen text, passing the final test

Literature Green. K. and J. LeBihan. Critical Theory and Practice: A Coursebook. London: Routledge, 1996. Baldick, Ch. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford: OUP, 1990. Cuddon, J.A. Dictionary of Literary Terms. London: Penguin, 1991. Eagleton T. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 1988. Lodge, D. Modern Criticism and Theory. London: Longman, 2000. Con Davis, R. and Schleifner, R. Contemporary Literary Cirticism. New York: Longman, 1998.

Anglophone Speculative Fiction Seminar Lecturer Dr Dorota Guttfeld Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, 2nd year, semestr letni


30 (summer semester)


The aim of the seminar is to outline the development and varieties of 19th, 20th and 21st century Anglophone speculative fiction and develop students’ skills in literary analysis. The course will cover tales of invention, lost race fiction, Golden Age SF, cold war SF, hard and soft SF, New Wave, cyberpunk, and the newest forms of SF. Texts will be selected to illustrate not only the development of the genre, but also science fiction’s relationship with mainstream literary trends and contemporary social and political issues, including problems of race, gender and colonialism.


Attendance and active participation, presentation of a chosen text

Literature Clute, J. and P. Nicholls. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Gunn, J. The Road to Science Fiction. James, E. Science Fiction in the 20th Century. James, E. and F. Mendelssohn. The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. Larbalestier, J. Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction of the 20th Century. Rieder, J. Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction.

Evolution of Language Lecturer Sławomir Wacewicz, PhD




30


An interdisciplinary seminar devoted to discussing the most recent approaches to the evolution of the human language faculty. It includes elements of general evolutionary theory, cognitive sciences, and linguistics. The main objective of the course is to make students acquainted with the

current thinking on the evolutionary emergence of language in hominids. A supplementary goal is to make the students aware of the strenghts as well as potenatial risks of applying the adaptationist perspective to viewing the cognitive skills of humans (and other animals). The course is also geared to equip students with basic theoretical tools for analysing a broad range of extralinguistic phenomena in the spirit of evolutionary psychology.

Type of credit Graded pass/fail Credit requirements

Attendance, active participation, passing the test, and completing 1 assignment (oral presentation or written work)

Literature Bickerton, D. 2005. „Language Evolution: a Brief Guide for Linguists”. Dostępny z: http://derekbickertonmore.com/ Deacon, T.W. 1997. The Symbolic Species. The Co-evolution of Language and the Human Brain. London: Penguin Press Fitch, T.W. 2005. „The evolution of language: a comparative review”. Biology and Philosophy 20, ss. 193-230 Hurford, J. 2007. The Origins of Meaning. Oxford University Press Pinker, S. and Paul Bloom. 1990. „Natural language and natural selection”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 (4): 707-784

Introduction to American Literature Lecturer Mirosława Buchholtz, professor Type, year and semester of the course



30


The course offers an overview of American literary history from the 17th to the 21st century and explores the main themes, motifs, contexts and reception of American literature.

Type of credit Pass/fail Credit requirements

Attendance

Literature Baym, N. (ed.) 2006. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Sixth Edition Bradbury, M., Ruland, R. 1991. From Puritanism to Postmodernism Salska, A. (ed.) 2003. Historia Literatury Amerykańskiej Kopcewicz, A., Sienicka, M. 1982. Historia literatury Stanów Zjednoczonych w zarysie Reliable Internet sources

Wiedza o kulturze amerykańskiej Lecturer Sława Krasińska, M.A.

Type, year and semestre of the course



45

Type of course classes Course description

The course is designed to help students gain deeper knowledge of American culture and institutions. It provides the historical and cultural context necessary to understand all major areas of life in the United States of America.

The following questions will be addressed: Who is an American? What is America? What are the central values of America? How did Americans form their culture and interact with one another? What is America’s relationship to the rest of the world?

Type of credit exam Credit requirements

active participation in class, oral presentation, final test

Literature Ashbee, E. 2004. Get Set for American Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Diniejko, A. 2005. An Introduction to the United States of America. Kraków: Wydawnictwo EGIS. Eckhnard, F., Reimer J. 2004. America in Close-Up. Harlow: Person Education Limited. Falk, R. 1993. Spotlight on the USA. New York: Oxford University Press. Giannotti J., Szwarcewicz S. 1996. Talking About the USA. An Active Introduction to American Culture. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall Regents. Jurczyński, T. 1995. Dictionary of the United States. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne. Sardar, Z., Davis, M.W. 2003. Why Do People Hate America? Cambridge: Icon Books Ltd. Velie, A., Kidwell, C.S. 2005. Native American Studies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

CULTURE STUD IES Lecturer dr Katarzyna Więckowska Type, year and semester of the course



30


The course offers an overview of the basic issues and concerns of contemporary Britain. The major events of post-war history are discussed (the Welfare State, Thatcherism, regionalism, devolution, nationalism)

and their representation in the media (film). The aim of the course is to offer an outline of British history and to analyze the major components of British cultural identity.


active class participation, test

Literature Christopher David, British Culture: an introduction. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Irwin John L., Modern Britain: an introduction, London: Unwin Hyman, 1987. Marwick Arthur, British society since 1945. London: Penguin, 2003. Morley, D. and K. Robins. British Cultural Studies. Geography, Nationality and Identity.Oxford UP, 2005. Oakland, John, British civilization: an introduction. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. Storry, Mike and Peter Childs, British Cultural Identities. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Budge, Ian et al., The New British Politics. Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2007.

Business English Integrated Lecturer Sowińska Agnieszka, MA Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, Business English Classes: year 2 / semester 2


30

Type of course Practical English Classes: 2 year class Course description

Course content: � Advertising/Brands � Business start-up � Money � Prioritizing/Time management � Globalization � Company culture � Negotiations � Human resources � International business

Type of credit The course ends with an exam. Credit requirements

1. Regular attendance 2. Two short summaries of the recordings or articles from The Economist or Newsweek. 3. PowerPoint presentation (case study) 4. The passing score of the mock exam (60%) 5. Active participation during classes (discussions, team-work and role-plays)

Literature Mascull B. Business Vocabulary Advanced, Cambridge. McCarthy M., O’Dell F. (new). English Vocabulary in Use – Advanced, Cambridge. Naunton J., ProFile 3 Upper-Intermediate, Oxford. Market Leader Upper-Intermediate + recent issues of The Economist

Conceptual Metaphor Theory Seminar Lecturer Strugielska Ariadna, doktor Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, second year, winter semester


30


The course aims at evaluating Conceptual Metaphor Theory in its deductive as well as inductive variation. Theoretical notions will be illustrated on the basis of the language of emotions in English. Students will be required to systematically compare and assess the two versions of CMT.


Attendance, participation preparing a presentation.

Literature Cameron, Lynne, Graham Low (red). 1999. Researching and Applying Metaphor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Kövecses, Zoltán. 1986. Metaphors of Anger, Pride and Love: A Lexical Approach to the Structure of Concepts. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Kövecses, Zoltán. 1998. Are there any emotion-specific metaphors? Speaking of emotions. Conceptualization and expression, eds. Angeliki Athanasiadou and Elzbieta Tabakowska. Berlin and New York: Mounton de Gruyter, 127-151. Kövecses, Zoltán. 2000. Metaphor and Emotion: Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kövecses, Zoltán. 2002. Metaphor: A Practical Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press Kövecses, Zoltán. 2008. Metaphor and Emotion. The Cambridge handbook of metaphor and thought, ed. Raymond W. Gibbs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 380-396. Stefanowitsch, Anatol. 2006. Words and their metaphors: A Corpus-based approach. Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy, eds. Anatol Stefanowitsch and Stefan Th. Gries. Berlin and New York: Mounton de Gruyter, 63-105.

Cognitive Linguistics Approach to Metaphor Analysis Lecturer dr Tomasz Fojt Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, year 2, summer term


30


The structure of the seminar is bipartite. The first part is an overview of various approaches to metaphor adopted in linguistics. The course commences with an outline of the substitution view of metaphor and its variant, the comparison view. These two conceptions are then compared contrastively with the cognitive approach where metaphor is defined in terms of cross-domain knowledge transfer. Two hypotheses will be discussed in connection with the cognitivist approach - the embodiment hypothesis and the invariance hypothesis - with the aim of better expounding the mechanism of metaphor (e.g. constraints on metaphoric transfer). The notion of pre-conceptual image-schematic structures will be introduced in order to provide a systematic explanation of the mechanism of metaphoric mapping. Then the interactionist view of metaphor will be introduced to explain the phenomenon of meaning creation as effected by novel metaphors. Related issues of analogy, metonymy, figurative language in general, and the axiological aspect of metaphor will be discussed when relevant. The second part of the course concerns itself with the roles and applications of metaphor. Through a discussion of a number of texts, it seeks to establish metaphor as a conceptual device inherent in reasoning, only derivatively functioning at the level of linguistic expression. The discussion of the functions of metaphor will include: granting / facilitating cognitive access, guiding / limiting influence of metaphorical reasoning, meaning-creating function, exploratory function, integrative function, heuristic and epistemic functions, communicative value.

Type of credit grade credit Credit requirements

satisfactory test results (min. 60%)

Literature Deignan, Alice. 2005. Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Gibbs, Raymond. 1994. The Poetics of Mind. Figurative Thought, Language and Understanding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Indurkhya, Bipin. 1992. Metaphor and Cognition. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers Kövecses, Zoltán and George Lakoff. 1983. “The Cognitive Model of Anger Inherent in American English”. Berkeley Cognitive Science Report No. 10 Lakoff, George, Mark Johnson. 1980. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press Ortony, A., (ed.). 1993. Metaphor and Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Steen, Gerard. 2007. Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage.

Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins

Language Studies Lecturer Strugielska Ariadna, PhD Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, second year, winter and spring semester

ECTS points Winter semester– 2 credits Spring semester – 3 credits

Number of hours

30 per semester


The course aims at acquainting students with basic notions related to English syntax. The following problems will, among others, be discussed: the simple sentence, coordination, pro-form and ellipsis, the complex sentence.

Type of credit Winter semester – pass/fail Spring semester - examination

Credit requirements

Attendance, participation, passing the final exam

Literature Biber D., Conrad S., Leech G. (2002) Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Longman, London. (book and workbook) Quirk R., Greenbaum S., Leech G. & Svartvik (1985) A comprehensive grammar of the English language. Longman, London.

CULTURE STUDIES Lecturer dr Katarzyna Więckowska Type, year and semester of the course



15

Type of course lecture Course description

The unit introduces students to the history of British Cultural Studies, its key theories and practices. The theoretical texts discussed in the course are applied to the analysis of a series of cultural artifacts (e.g. advertisements, movies, popular literature, etc.), with the aim of supplying students with critical tools to be used in all subsequent units of the British Studies course.

Type of credit Exam Credit requirements

active class participation

Literature Agger, B. 1992. Cultural Studies as Critical Theory.London: The Falmer

Press. Easthope, A. and K. McGowan. 1992. A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader. Buckingham: Open University Press During, S. 1993. The Cultural Studies Reader. London: Routledge Gray, A. and J. McGuigan.1993. Studying Culture. An Introductory Reader. London: Edward Arnold Storey, J.1993. An Introductory Guide to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. New York and London: Harvester Wheatsheaf

Theories and Approaches in Contemporary Media Studies Seminar Lecturer dr Katarzyna Więckowska Type, year and semester of the course



30


The seminar introduces the theories and approaches used in contemporary Media Studies. Throughout the course, students will analyse a number of media texts, beginning with advertisements and ending with films.


active class participation, final essay.

Literature Anderson, W. T. (ed.). 1995. The Fontana Post-Modernism Reader. London: Fontana Press. Conboy, K, N. Medina, S. Stanbury (eds.). 1997. Writing on the Body. Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory. New York: Columbia UP. Easthope, A., K. McGowan (eds.). 1991. A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader. Buckingham: Open University Press. Rosen, P. (ed.). 1986. Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology: A Film Theory Reader. New York: Columbia UP. Fiske, J. 1987. Television Culture. London and New York: Routledge. Jencks, Ch. The Post-Modern Reader. 1995. Mew York: St. Martin’s Press.

English Grammar Lecturer Sowińska Agnieszka, MA Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, Practical English Class year 2 / semester 1


30

Type of course Practical English Classes: 2 year class

Course description

The course covers grammatical issues related to verb form, particularly tense, aspect and voice, fact and non-fact, reported speech, emphasis, causative etc.

Type of credit The course ends with an exam Credit requirements

Regular attendance and positive test scores.

Literature Alexander, L.G. Longman English Grammar. Evans, V. CPE Use of English Examination Practice. Gethin, H. Grammar in Context. Graver, B.D. Advanced English Practice Side, R. and G. Wellman. Grammar and Vocabulary for Cambridge Advanced and Proficiency. Swan, M. Practical English Usage. Thomson, A.J. and A.V. Martinet. A Practical English Grammar.

YEAR 3

LITERATURE STUDIES Lecturer dr Katarzyna Więckowska Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, 3rd year, winter term


15


The course offers an overview of contemporary literary theory and criticism, beginning from Russian Formalism to Postmodernism. The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the major critical approaches and to supply them with analytical tools to be used in further studies.

Type of credit Exam Credit requirements

active class participation

Literature R. Selden (ed.) The Theory of Criticism. London: Longman, 1988. R. Selden, A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1988. D. Lodge (ed.) Modern Criticism and Theory. London: Longman, 1988. K. M. Newton (ed.), Theory into Practice. A Reader in Modern Literary Criticism. London: Macmillan, 1992. P. Waugh, Metafiction. The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. R. W. Warhol and D. P. Herndl (eds.), Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory Criticism. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press, 1997. R.C. Davis, R. Schleifer (eds.) Literary Criticism: Literary and Cultural

Studies. New York: Longman, 1998.

Postcolonial Theory and Practice Lecturer Mirosława Buchholtz, professor Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, 3rd year, spring semester


30


Seminar aims at exploring key concepts in postcolonial studies and comparing theories with literary, cinematic and journalistic practice.



Literature Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths i Helen Tiffin. 1998. Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies. London and New York: Routledge Buchholtz, Mirosława, (ed.). 2009. Studia postkolonialne w literaturoznawstwie i kulturoznawstwie anglojęzycznym. Toruń: Wydawnictwo UMK Reliable Internet sources

The Use of Corpora in Language Analysis Lecturer dr Tomasz Fojt Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, seminar, year 3, winter and summer semester


30


The course aims at presenting a range of issues connected with the use of corpora in language analysis. The students will have a chance to familiarize themselves with the characteristics and the functioning of the BNC, IPI PAN Corpus, and PELCRA Corpus. The issues raised in the course will include the typology of corpora, applications of language data bases in linguistic research, issues related to tagging and query syntax, the use of corpora in the analysis of specialized languages and translation.

Type of credit grade credit Credit requirements


Literature Duszak, A., Gajek, E., Okulska, U. 2006. Korpusy w angielsko-polskim językoznawstwie kontrastywnym. Teoria i praktyka. Krakow: Universitas

Przepiórkowski, Adam 2008. Powierzchniowe przetwarzanie języka polskiego. Warszawa. Exit Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B. (ed.) 2005. Podstawy Językoznawstwa Korpusowego. Łódź. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego Mcenery and Wilson. 2001. Corpus Linguistics. Edinburgh University Press Gries, S. Th. 2009. Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R. New York, London: Routledge

Variationist sociolinguistics Lecturer Dr. Michael Hornsby Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, 3rd year, winter semester


30


This series of lectures will discuss how features of the English language can be described and analysed from a variationist sociolinguistic perspective.

Type of credit Examination Credit requirements

Literature Chambers et al. (2003) The Handbook of Language Variation and Change Coulmas (1998) The Handbook of Sociolinguistics Coulmas (2006) Sociolinguistics: The Study of Speakers’ Choices

Practical Explorations in Cognitive Stylistics: Focus on Australian Poetry and Short Fiction Seminar Lecturer Waldemar Skrzypczak Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, 3rd year, summer term


30


The main objective of the seminar Practical Explorations in Cognitive Stylistics: Focus on Australian Poetry and Short Fiction is to familiarize the students with selected cognitive processes present at the heart of image construction in language, such as The Conceptual Integration Theory, construal operations, etc. and how they are applied in cognitive stylistic analysis of literary works. The material for analysis with be selected from anthologies featuring poetic and narrative pieces of contemporary

Australian writers. Type of credit Credit with a grade Credit requirements


Literature Bradford. R. 1997. Stylistics. Routledge. London and new York Fauconnier, Gilles. 2001. “Conceptual Blending and Analogy”, in: D. Gentner, K. J. Holyoak, B. N. Kokinov (eds.), The Analogical Mind, Cambridge Mass./London, England, A Bradford Book MIT, 255-286 Lakoff, George. 1993. “Contemporary Theory of Metaphor”, in: A. Ortony (ed.).Metaphor and Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 202-251 Semino E., J. Culpeper (eds.). 2002. Cognitive Stylistics: Language and Cognition in Text Analysis. John Benjamins Publishing Company. Amsterdam/Philadelphia Skrzypczak, Waldemar. 2006. “On Text Linguistics: some terminological distinctions.” Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych w Toruniu, Silva Rerum. Nr 6/7, 63-71 Skrzypczak, Waldemar. 2007. “Cognitive Stylistics: Towards Dimensions of Uniqueness and Novelty in Textual Imagery.” Multiculturalism, at the Start of 21st Century, red. Krystyna Kujawińska-Courtney i Maria A. Łukowska. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 371-383 Wales, Katie. 2001 [1999]. A Dictionary of Stylistics. Person Education Limited. Harrow.

Tendencies in British Literature and Drama Seminar Lecturer Edyta Lorek - Jezińska, PhD Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, 3rd year, summer semester


30


The seminar explores some of the newer tendencies in British literature and drama, including gender studies, intertextuality, metafiction and metadrama, historiography and revision as well as trauma theory. The texts examined in the seminar include fiction and drama written by the following authors: John Fowles, Tom Stoppard, Caryl Churchill, David Lodge, Fay Weldon.


Attendance, Active participation, Test, Short oral presentation.

Literature Waugh, P. 1984. Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-conscious Fiction. London: Methuen Hutcheon, L. 1988. A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, theory, fiction. London: Routledge.

Allen, G. 2000. Intertextuality. London: Routledge. Orr, M. 2003. Intertextuality: Debates and contexts. Cambridge: Polity Press. Innes, Ch. 2002. Modern British Drama: the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Buse, P. 2001. Drama + Theory: Critical Approaches to Modern British Drama. Manchester: Manchester University Press

BA seminar in Cognitive Linguistics Lecturer dr Tomasz Fojt Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, year 3, summer and winter terms


30


The aim of the course is to familiarise the students with the cognitive approach to linguistic analysis. The topics to be covered include: aspects of cognition relevant to linguistic analysis, conceptual and linguistic categorisation, schematisation, metaphor and metonymy, cognitive models, space grammar, frame approach, attentional approach, polysemy, iconicity, grammaticalisation, figure and ground alignment (prominene), grammatical constructions, elements of axiology (the listing includes only general topics and should not be treated as exhaustive).

Type of credit credit without grade Credit requirements

Satisfactory progress in developing BA projects

Literature Croft, W. and Cruse, A. 2004. Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge University Press Dąbrowska, E. 2004. Language, Mind and Brain. Edinburgh University Press Dirven, R. i Verspoor, M. 1998. Cognitive Explorations of Language and Linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Evans, V. and Green, M. 2006. Cognitive Linguistics – an introduction. Edinburgh University Press Evans, V, Benjamin K. Bergen and Jörg Zinken (eds). 2007. The Cognitive Linguistics Reader. Equinox Publishing Fried, Mirjam. 2005. “A frame-based approach to case alternations: the swarm-class verbs in Czech.” Cognitive Linguistics 16/3:475-512 Fried, Mirjam & Jan-Ola Östman (eds.). 2004. Construction Grammar in a cross-language perspective [CAL 2]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Geeraerts, D. (ed.). 2006. Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter Geeraerts, D and Cuyckens, H. 2007. The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Goldberg, Adele. 1995. Constructions. A Construction Grammar approach to argument structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Goldberg, Adele. 2006. Constructions at Work: the nature of generalization in language. Oxford University Press Goldberg, Adele, 2006. The inherent semantics of argument structure: The case of the English ditransitive construction Haiman, John. 1985. Iconicity in Syntax. Amsterdam/Philadelphia. John Benjamins Kay, Paul & Charles J. Fillmore. 1999. Grammatical constructions and linguistic generalizations: The What’s X doing Y? construction. Language 75/1: 1-33 Krzeszowski, T. P. 1997. Angels and Devils in Hell. Elements of Axiology in Semantics. Warszawa. Energeia Lakoff, G. and Mark Johnson. 1980. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press Lakoff, G. 1987. Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. Chicago: University of Chicago Press Langacker, Ronald. 1987. Foundations of Cognitive Grammar. Stanford: Stanford University Press Ortony, Andrew 1993. Metaphor and Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Ostman, J.O. 2005. Construction Grammars. Cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions. Amsterdam/Philadelphia. John Benjamins Putz M., Niemeier S., Dirven R. 2001. Applied Cognitive Linguistics I: Theory and Language Acquisition. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter Schönefeld, Doris. 2006. “Constructions”. Constructions SV1-1/2006 Szczesniak, Konrad. 2008. “Manner of obtainment as a relative in a family of resultative constructions”. Constructions 1/2008 Stefanowitsch, A. and Stefan Th. Gries “Collostructions: Investigating the interaction of words and constructions”, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 8:2, 2003 John Benjamins Publishing Company Taylor, John, R.2003. Cognitive Grammar. Oxford University Press Taylor, John, R. 1995. Linguistic Categorization. Prototypes in linguistic theory. Oxford: Clarendon Press Ungerer, F. and H. J. Schmid. 1996. An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. Harlow: Pearson Education

BA seminar: cultural studies Lecturer Edyta Lorek-Jezińska, PhD Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, 3rd year, winter and summer semester


30 (in each semester)


The seminar aims at acquainting the students with the methodology of writing a BA dissertation in the field of cultural studies (focusing on popular

culture, theatre and gender studies). Type of credit Pass/Fail (Zal/Nzal) Credit requirements

- Attendance, - active participation in class, - presenting the topic of the dissertation, - introduction and a preliminary bibliography of the dissertation (winter semester), the entire dissertation (summer semester).

Literature Con Davis, R. (ed.) 1998. Contemporary Literary Criticism: Literary and Cultural Studies.New York: Longman Goodman, L. (ed.). 1999. Literature and Gender. London: Routledge Warhol, R. R. and D. Price Herndl (eds.). 1997. Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press Gray,A. and J. McGuigan (ed.). 1993. Studying Culture: An Introductory Reader. London: Edward Arnold Hilton, J. (ed.). 1994. New Directions in Theatre. Basingstoke: Macmillan Easthope, A. 1994. A. Literary into Cultural Studies. London: Routledge Fiske, J. and J. Hartley. 1994. Reading Television. London: Routledge Jencks, Ch. (ed.). 1992. The Post-Modern Reader. London: Academy Editions Lodge, D. (ed.). 1988. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. London: Longman Buse, P. 2001. Drama + Theory: Critical Approaches to Modern British Drama. Manchester: Manchester University Press Goodman, L. And J. De Gay (eds). 2003. The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance. London: Routledge Mongia, P. (ed.). 1997. Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. London: Arnold

BA seminar: translation Lecturer Dr Dorota Guttfeld Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, 3rd year, winter semester and summer semester


60 (30 – winter semester, 30 – summer semester)

Type of course BA seminar Course description

Students will present and apply modern translation theories in preparation for a BA study of selected translation problems. The first semester will cover modern translation theories (functional theoreis, translational action, skopos, polysystem, DTS) and introduce issues crucial to translation studies (text type, constrained translation, style in translation, translator visibility, poliitics and ethics of translation). In the second semester the classes will focus on students’ individual BA projects.

Type of credit pass/fail Credit Attendance and progress on the BA project

requirements Literature Hatim, B. and J. Munday. Translation. An Advanced Resource Book.

London: Routledge, 2004. Munday, J. Introducing Translation Studies. London: Routledge, 2001. Venuti, L. The Translation Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 2000. Williams, J and A. Chesterman. The Map. A Beginner’s Guide to Doing Research in Translation Studies. Manchester: St. Jerome, 2002.

American literature Lecturer Sława Krasińska, MA Type, year and semester of the course

undergraduate studies, 2nd year, winter and summer semester

ECTS points winter semester: 3; summer semester: 3 Number of hours

30


Upon the successful completion of this course the student will be able to: 1. explain the contributions of selected major American writers and identify the most important works in the history of American literature from the Colonial Period to the twenty first century 2. recognize and describe philosophical, historical, and social characteristics of important literary traditions and concepts of American literature 3. demonstrate a solid foundation in practical criticism over a range of literary types.

Type of credit a numerical grade on a 5 to 2 scale (5 being the top grade) Credit requirements

active participation in class, giving a short presentation, passing the test

Literature Baym, N. (ed.) 2006. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Sixth Edition. New York: Norton & Company Bradbury, M., Ruland, R. 1991. From Puritanism to Postmodernism. New York: Penguin Books Cuddon. J.A. 1999.The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. London: Penguin Books High, P.B. 1986. An Outline of American Literature. New York: Longman Inc. Jack. I. (ed.) “Granta 97, Spring 2007.” Best of Young American Novelists 2. London: Granta Publications Kopcewicz, A., Siennicka, M. 1982. Historia literatury Stanów Zjednoczonych w zarysie. Warszawa: PWN Spankceren, K. Outline of American Literature. (available on the Internet) http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oal/oalltoc.htm

Optional Practical English Course

Lecturer Marcin Leszczyński, PhD Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, 2nd year, winter and summer semesters


60


During the course students will learn about everyday life in modern Britain. The topics will include geography, administrative division, the royal family, society, culture, customs and traditions, holidays, sports, education, religion, etc.


Attendance, active participation in class, tests, oral presentation

Literature Crowther, Jonathan (ed.). 2001. Oxford Guide to British and American Culture. Oxford: OUP Kightly, Charles. 1986. The Customs and Ceremonies of Britain. London: Thames and Hudson. Paxaman, Jeremi. 2007. The English. A Portrait of a People. Penguin Books. Paxaman, Jeremi. 2007. On Royalty. Penguin Books Room, Adrian. 1990. An A to Z of British Life. Oxford: OUP Roud, Steve. 2006. The English Year. Penguin Books Storry, Mike and Peter Childs (eds.). 2002. British Cultural Identities. London and New York: Routledge. Swinglehurst, Edmund. 2002. The History of the Kings and Queens of England and Scotland. Armadillo Books

Conversation (Practical English) Lecturer Krzysztof Strzemeski, MA Type, year and semester of the course


ECTS points 7 points for the entire Practical English module (all its courses) Number of hours

30


The purpose of this class is an on-going diagnosis and elimination of errors in oral production. The other goals include the increase of listening comprehension skills, speaking fluency and vocabulary. The course will make use of Internet listening materials.

Type of credit Numerical grade contributing to the overall Practical English grade. Credit requirements

Participation in class and moodle activities, completion of listening tasks contributing to a student portfolio, class reports and vocabulary tests.

Literature Harmer, J. i R. Rossner. 1997. More than words : vocabulary for upper intermedite to advanced students. Book 1. Harlow : Longman.

McCarthy, M. i F. O'Dell. 2006. English Vocabulary in Use. CUP.

Literature Studies Lecturer Tymon Adamczewski, MA




30

Type of course Class

Course description

The aim of the course is to present an overview of selected approaches to literary study. The analysis of critical essays and literary texts provides here the necessary basis for discussing such issues as literature, literariness, the idea of genre and a range of chosen literary terms. In consequence, the students will gain a better understanding of the various types of literary criticism as well as main issues, conflicts and changes that have taken place in the theoretical discourse, especially in the 20th century. Particular emphasis will be put on examining such movements as, among others, Marxism, Structuralism, Psychoanalysis, Post-Structuralism, Postmodernism, Deconstruction, Feminism and Post-colonialism and their respective influence on the contemporary reading of literature.


Attendance, active participation in class, essay, passing the final test.

Literature Barry, P. 1995. Beginning Theory. Manchester: Manchester Univeristy Press. Habib, M. A. Rafey. 2008. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory. A History. Blackwell. Lodge, D. (ed.). 1988. Modern Criticism and Theory. London: Longman Macey, D. 2000. The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory. Penguin Books. Newton, K. M. (ed.). 1992. Theory into Practice. A Reader in Modern Literary Criticism. London: Macmillan Selden, R. (ed.). 1988. The Theory of Criticism. London: Longman Waugh, P. 1996. Metafiction. The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction. London and New York: Routledge Warhol, R. W. and D. P. Herndl (eds.). 1997. Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory Criticism. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press Norris, Ch. 1982. Deconstruction: Theory and Practice. London and New York: Methuen Culler, J. 1997. Literary Theory – A Very Short Introduction. Oxford and New York: OUP

English Phonology and Phonetics Lecturer Sławomir Wacewicz, PhD




30

Type of course Classes / Laboratory Course description

The aim of the course is to improve students’ overall pronunciation skills in British English. The assumed standard is contemporary rather than traditional/conservative RP. The main focus is on the elements of connected speech, namely assimilation, elision and linking, rhythm and weak forms, and intonation. Teaching is based both on published course material and on electronic material such as interactive pronunciation dictionaries and audio and video recordings. Methods include doing focused exercises as well as imitation of native English speakers. Supplementary aims of the course are as follows: making the students acquainted with the sociogeographical diversity in the British accents, creating the ability to formulate the differences between accents in descriptive terms, perfecting transcription, learning the pronunciation of the most important difficult words and phonetic exceptions.

Type of credit Graded pass/fail Credit requirements

Attendance, passing all the tests, completing one recording task

Literature Hewings, M. 2007. English Pronunciation in Use Advanced. Cambridge: CUP. Mortimer, C. 1984. Elements of English Pronunciation. Cambridge: CUP. Ponsonby, M. 1982. How Now, Brown Cow? A Course in the Pronunciation of English. Cambridge: CUP. Roach, P. 1991. English Phonetics And Phonology: A Practical Course. 2nd edition. Cambridge: CUP Wells, J.C. 2008. Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. Third Edition. London: Longman

19th and 20th-century Fiction on the Dilemmas of Biography Lecturer Mirosława Buchholtz, professor Type, year and semester of the course



30

Type of course Seminar

Course description

Seminar aims at exploring key concepts in biographical studies and comparing theories with works of fiction by Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, William Golding, Julian Barnes and A.S. Byatt that address the issue of biography construction.



Literature Texts available in the Department library and/or as GoogleBooks: James, Henry. The Aspern Papers, The Real Right Thing Wilde, Oscar. The Portrait of Mr. W.H. Woolf, Virginia, Orlando Golding, William. The Paper Men Barnes, Julian. Flaubert’s Parrot Byatt, A.S. Possession Secondary sources: Benton, Michael. 2009. Literary Biography Lee, Hermione. 2009. Biography Rollyson, Carl. 2007. Biography: A User’s Guide Reliable Internet sources

Seminar Lecturer Ewa Kościałkowska-Okońska Type, year and semestre of the course

Undergraduate studies, Seminar, III year, winter semester


30

Type of course Elective seminar Course description

Overview of Translation Studies-problems and challenges for the translator

The seminar aims at the introduction of basic notions and concepts within the field of Translation Studies perceived mainly from the interdisciplinary perspective. The range of topics discussed during sessions includes various approaches to TS (linguistic, cultural, functional, cognitive), the concept of equivalence as well as literary translation vis-à-vis translation norms. The course also reflects upon such issues as translation competence, requirements for translator training and the position of translators on the market.

Each session is structurally divided into two parts: theoretical (when theoretical aspects are discussed) and practical (with the realisation of those aspects in practice analysed on the basis of real texts and examples).

Type of credit Assignment-own project Credit Project presentation

requirements Literature Baker, Mona. 1998. Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. London and

New York: Routledge.

Baker, Mona. 1992. In Other Words. A Coursebook on Translation. London:

Routledge.

Danks, Joseph H. et al. (eds.). 1997. Cognitive Processes in Translation and

Interpreting. Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage.

Gile, Daniel. 1995. Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Kussmaul, Paul. 1995. Training the Translator. Amsterdam: Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Lörscher, Wolfgang. 1991. Translation Performance, Translation Process, and Translation Strategies. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag

Malmkjær, Kirsten. (ed.). 1998. Translation and Language Teaching. St Jerome

Publishing

Munday, Jeremy. 2001. 'Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and

Applications'. London and New York: Routledge

Schaeffner, Ch. 2004. Translation Research and Interpreting Research. Traditions, Gaps and Synergies. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters

Wilss, Wolfram. 1996. Knowledge and Skills in Translator Behavior. John Benjamins Publishing Company. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia.

Legal English Lecturer Ewa Kościałkowska-Okońska Type, year and semestre of the course

Undergraduate studies, III year, winter and summer semester

ECTS points 5 points – winter semester 8 points – summer semestre

Number of hours

30


The course is aimed at acknowledging students with specificity of legal English (perceived as the language of acts of law). The focus of analysis are characteristic syntactic and stylistic features; legal terms are also discussed. The

course concentrates on textual analysis and translation of various legal texts, and text comprehension is also stressed. An additional aspect of the course is expanding knowledge and vocabulary on the EU legal terminology.

Type of credit Class tests in translation of legal texts Credit requirements

Positive test results

Literature Alcaraz, E. and B. Hughes, Legal Translation Explained, St Jerome, 2002

Cao, D. 2007. Translating Law. Multilingual Matters

Morris, M. Translation and the Law, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1995

Myrczek, E. Lexicon of Law Terms, C.H. Beck, 2007

Wagner, E. (red.) 2002. Translating for the European Union Institutions. St Jerome Publishing

POSTGRADUATE STUDIES

Introduction to American Poetry Lecturer Mirosława Buchholtz, professor Type, year and semester of the course

Postgraduate studies, 1st year, spring semester


30


The course offers an overview of American poetry from the 17th to the 1st century. Selected poems will be discussed in historical and theoretical contexts.

Type of credit Credit requirements


Literature Baym, N. (ed.) 2006. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Sixth Edition Bradbury, M., Ruland, R. 1991. From Puritanism to Postmodernism Salska, A. (ed.) 2003. Historia Literatury Amerykańskiej Kopcewicz, A., Sienicka, M. 1982. Historia literatury Stanów Zjednoczonych w zarysie

Reliable Internet sources

19th and 20th-century Fiction on the Dilemmas of Biography Lecturer Mirosława Buchholtz, professor Type, year and semester of the course

Postgraduate studies, 1st year, winter semester


30


Seminar aims at exploring key concepts in biographical studies and comparing theories with works of fiction by Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, William Golding, Julian Barnes and A.S. Byatt that address the issue of biography construction.

Type of credit Credit requirements


Literature Texts available in the Department library and/or as GoogleBooks: James, Henry. The Aspern Papers, The Real Right Thing Wilde, Oscar. The Portrait of Mr. W.H. Woolf, Virginia, Orlando Golding, William. The Paper Men Barnes, Julian. Flaubert’s Parrot Byatt, A.S. Possession Secondary sources: Benton, Michael. 2009. Literary Biography Lee, Hermione. 2009. Biography Rollyson, Carl. 2007. Biography: A User’s Guide Reliable Internet sources

Seminar: Introduction to Postcolonial Literature Lecturer Anna Branach-Kallas PhD Type, year and semester of the course

Postgraduate studies ,1st year, winter semester


30


This course introduces the students to postcolonial theory and practice. Starting with the definition(s) of postcolonialim, the students discover the key postcolonial theories. Students also explore postcolonial rewritings of the British canon, such as Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, and various aspects of postcolonialism in contemporary works written in the former

British Empire such as Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)or Mindnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (India).


Active participation in class, test.

Literature Benedict Anderson Imagined Communities Abdul R. JanMohamed “The Economy of Manichean Allegory” Rudyard Kipling “The Overland Mail” George Lamming “The Occasion for Speaking” Thomas Macaulay “Minute on Indian Education” Edward W. Said Orientalism Ngugi Wa Thiong’o Decolonising the Mind Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Hanif Kureishi The Buddha of Suburbia Jean Rhys The Wide Sargasso Sea Jane Urquhart Away

Monograpphic lecture: Selected topics in syntactic theory: the structure of phrases and clauses in English Lecturer Wiktor Pskit, PhD Type, year and semester of the course

Postgraduate studies, 1st year, summer semester


30


Selected topics in syntactic theory: the structure of phrases and clauses in English The aim of the series of lectures is to familiarise students with recent developments in English syntax from the perspective of generative grammar and Culicover and Jackendoff’s Simpler Syntax model. Topics: basic terminology and methodology of contemporary syntactic theory, X-bar syntax, the structure of phrases in Simpler Syntax, different types of phrases in English, syntactic ‘cartographies’, simple and complex sentences in English


Attendance, written test or term paper

Literature Baltin, M. and C. Collins (eds.). 2001. The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory. Blackwell. Boeckx, C. 2008. Bare Syntax. Oxford University Press

Carnie, A. 2010. Constituent Structure. Oxford University Press. Culicover, P. and R. Jackendoff. 2005. Simpler Syntax. Oxford University Press. Haegeman, L. 2006. Thinking Syntactically. A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis. Blackwell. Haegeman, L. and J. Guéron. 1999. English Grammar. A Generative Perspective. Blackwell Radford, A. 1998. Syntax. A Minimalist Introduction. Cambridge University Press

Seminar in literary studies (Irish literature in English) Lecturer Grzegorz Koneczniak, PhD Type, year and semester of the course

Postgraduate studies, 1st year


30 per semester


The seminar addresses the question of literary and cultural development of Ireland. The country, once being part of the British Empire, has developed its national distinctiveness since the nineteenth century, which is frequently regarded as opposed to the mainstream culture and literature of the British Empire. The seminar will focus on canonical works of Irish literature in English, including the most recent works of Brian Friel, Martin McDonagh or Dermot Bolger. In the seminar, the students will also be introduced to the historical, cultural and political context of the works analysed.


Involvement in discussion, end-of-semester essay (6-8 pages)

Literature (suggested)

Brendan Behan: The Hostage Dermot Bolger: From these Green Heights John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Maria Edgeworth: Castle Rackrent Brian Friel: selected drama Seamus Heaney: selected poems Patrick McCabe: Emerald Germs of Ireland Martin McDonagh: The Cripple of Inishmaan John McGahern: The Barracks George Bernard Shaw: John Bull’s Other Island John Millington Synge: The Playboy of the Western World William Butler Yeats: selected poems

Gender in British drama and theatre seminar

Lecturer Edyta Lorek - Jezińska, PhD Type, year and semester of the course

Postgraduate studies, 1st year, summer semester


30


The course focuses on how British drama and theatre address the concept of gender. The studied material will range between plays written by women and discussing the gender-related issues and feminist plays explicitly and often ideologically defining and redefining gender. A portion of the course will be devoted to cross-dressing in performance as well as lesbian drama. The issues discussed in the seminar include trauma theory, anti-historicism, intertextuality, and historiography.


Attendance, active participation in discussion, essay or test, short presentation.

Literature Goodman, L. (ed.). 2000. Mythic Women/Real Women. London: Faber & Faber Keyssar, H. 1993. Feminist Theatre: An Introduction to Plays of Contemporary British and American Women. Basingstoke: Macmillan Remnant, M. (ed.). 1994. Plays by Women: Volume Seven. London: Methuen Drama Goodman, L. and J. de Gay (eds.). 2003. The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance. London: Routledge Buse, P. 2001. Drama + Theory: Critical Approaches to Modern British Drama. Manchester: Manchester University Press Campbell, P(ed.). 1996. Analysing Performance: A Critical Reader. Manchester: Manchester University Press Warhol, R. R. and D. Price Herndl (eds.). 1997. Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press Ferris, L. (ed.). 1993. Crossing the Stage: Controversies on cross-dressing. London: Routledge

MA Seminar in Linguistics Lecturer Waldemar Skrzypczak Type, year and semester of the course

Postgraduate studies, 1st year, winter term and summer term


30 + 30


The long-term objective of the course MA Seminar in Linguistics is to familiarize the students with the methodological principles governing linguistic research, and also with the most important schools in the history

of modern linguistics and fundamental terminological distinctions. The students will get acquainted with the architecture of a research thesis - involving such elements as the domain and the object of research, as well as the theoretical perspective. Prospective MA research projects will concentrate on meaning construction on lexical, syntactic and textual levels (stylistic affects resulting from linguistic choices). Key points of text linguistics and cognitive linguistics will constitute the theoretical perspective.



Literature Beaugrande de, Robert, Urlich Dressler.1981. Introduction to Text Linguistics. London-New York: Longman. Faucconier, Gilles.1985. Mental Spaces: Aspects of Meaning Construction in Natural Language. Cambridge, Mass./London: The MIT Press/Bradford. Lakoff, George. 1993. “Contemporary Theory of Metaphor”, in: A. Ortony (ed.).Metaphor and Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 202-251 Langacker, Ronald W. 1990. Concept, Image and Symbol: The Cognitive Basis of Meaning. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Langacker, Ronald W. 2000. Grammar and Conceptualization. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Skrzypczak, Waldemar. 2006. “On Text Linguistics: some terminological distinctions.” Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych w Toruniu, Silva Rerum. Nr 6/7, 63-71 Skrzypczak, Waldemar. 2006. “Alternate Construals, Duals and Selective Projections.” Worlds in the Making: Constructivism and Postmodern Knowledge, red. Edyta Lorek-Jezińska, Teresa Siek-Piskozub i Katarzyna Więckowska. Toruń: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika. Skrzypczak, Waldemar. 2008. „Metaphor as a dynamic asymmetry.” Philologica Wratislaviensa: From Grammar to Discourse. Metaphor and Cognition, red. Zdzisław Wąsik and Tomasz Komendziński. Frankfut am Main: Peter Lang.

Monographic lecture: major conceptualist theories Lecturer Strugielska Ariadna, doktor Type, year and semester of the course

Postgraduate studies, 1 year, winter term


30


The course provides an overview of major conceptualist theories in the 20th and 21st centuries. The models will provide a background against which CMT will be evaluated. It will be demonstrated that, contrary to its theoretical assumptions, Conceptual Metaphor Theory is an isolating

approach and should thus be placed outside Cognitive Linguistics. Type of credit Grade Credit requirements

Attendance, participation, preparing a presentation.

Literature Deignan, Alice. 2006. The grammar of linguistic metaphors. Stefanowitsch, Anatol and Stefan Th. Gries (eds.), Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy, 106-122. Berlin and New York: Mounton de Gruyter. Fillmore, Charles, J., and B. T. Sue Atkins. 1992. Toward a frame-based lexicon: the semantics of risk and its neighbors. Adrienne Lehrer and Eva Feder Kittay (eds.), Frames, Fields and Contrasts: New Essays in Semantic and Lexical Organization, 75–102. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Geeraerts, Dirk. 2010. Theories of Lexical Semantics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Glynn, Dylan. 2002. Love and Anger: the grammatical structure of conceptual metaphors. Style 36, 541 – 559. Haser, Verena. 2005. Metaphor, Metonymy, and Experientialist Philosophy. Berlin, New York: Mounton de Gruyter. Langacker, Ronald. W. 2005. Construction Grammars: cognitive, radical, and less so. Cognitive Linguistics: Internal Dynamics and Interdisciplinary Interaction, eds. Francisco.J.Ruiz De Mendoza Ibanez and M. Sandra Pena Cervel. Berlin and New York: Mounton de Gruyter, 101-162. McGlone, Matthew S. 2007. What is the explanatory value of a conceptual metaphor? Language and Communication 27. 109–126. Steen, Gerard J. 2007. Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Taylor, John R. 2002. Cognitive Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press Vervaeke, John, and Christopher D. Green. 1997. “Women, fire, and dangerous theories: A critique of Lakoff’s theory of categorization. Metaphor and Symbol” 12, 59–80

Monographic lecture: Theory of Linguistic Communication: On Meaning Construction and Interpretation in Semiotics, Text Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Pragmatics Lecturer Waldemar Skrzypczak Type, year and semester of the course

Postgraduate studies, 1st year, winter term and summer term

ECTS points 2 points in each semester Number of hours

30 + 30


The main objective of the lecture Theory of Linguistic Communication: On Meaning Construction and Interpretation in Semiotics, Text Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Pragmatics is to familiarize the students with the main areas in question and terminological distinctions. Emphasis will be placed on the role of meaning construction

and meaning interpretation in the dimension of semantic 39onceptualization and pragmatic (inter-subjective and contextually dependent) interpretation, hence off-line and on-line aspects of meaning will be of crucial importance.



Literature Chandler, Daniel. 2002. Semiotics: The Basics. London: Routledge Mey. J. M. 1993. Pragmatics: An Introduction. Blackwell Publishers. Oxford Skrzypczak, Waldemar. 2006. “On Text Linguistics: some terminological distinctions.” Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych w Toruniu, Silva Rerum. Nr 6/7, 63-71 Skrzypczak, Waldemar. 2007. “Cognitive Stylistics: Towards Dimensions of Uniqueness and Novelty in Textual Imagery.” Multiculturalism, at the Start of 21st Century, red. Krystyna Kujawińska-Courtney I Maria A. Łukowska. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 371-383 Peccei, Jean S. 1999. Pragmatics. London and New York: Routledge Thomas, Jenny. 1995. Meaning in Interaction. London and New York: Longman

Monographic lecture - Cognitive Science. An Introduction. Lecturer Sławomir Wacewicz, PhD


Postgraduate studies, 1st year, winter semester


30


The main goal of this course consists in making students acquainted with Cognitive Science (CS) – contemporary interdisciplinary science of the mind and brain. The course will be focused on the fundamental issues of mainstream CS, such as types of mental representation, mechanisms of information processing, the relation of low-level and high-level cognition, and the contributions of the constituent disciplines of CS.


Attendance; alternatively: written test; alternatively: term paper

Literature Clark, A. 2001. Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press Green, D. (ed.) 2000. Cognitive Science. An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Pinker, S. 1997. How the mind works. New York: Norton Stafford, T. and M. Webb. 2004. Mind Hacks. Tips & Tricks for Using Your Brain. Pekin: O’Reilly Media Thagard, P. 2005. Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science. 2nd Edition.

Cambridge: MIT Press

English linguistics Lecturer Wiktor Pskit, PhD Type, year and semester of the course

Postgraduate studies, 1st year, winter and summer semester


30 per semester


The aim of the course is to develop students’ linguistic awareness and analytic skills in the context of selected branches of linguistics as well as to acquaint them with the current issues in English linguistics. The course focuses on selected topics in English morphology, word-formation, and syntax.


Attendance and active participation. A written test/term paper/presentation.

Literature Aarts, B. and A. McMahon (eds.). 2006. The Handbook of English Linguistics. Wiley-Blackwell Bauer, L. 1983. English Word-formation. Cambridge University Press Boeckx, C. 2008. Bare Syntax. Oxford University Press Culicover, P. and R. Jackendoff. 2005. Simpler Syntax. Oxford University Press. Haegeman, L. and J. Guéron. 1999. English Grammar. A Generative Perspective. Blackwell Huddleston, R., G.K. Pullum et al. 2002. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge University Press. Plag, I. 2003. Word-formation in English. Cambridge University Press Radford, A. 1998. Syntax. A Minimalist Introduction. Cambridge University Press Spencer, A. 1991. Morphological Theory. An Introduction to Word Structure in Generative Grammar. Cambridge University Press Stockwell, R. and D. Minkova. 2001. English Words: History and Structure. Cambridge University Press

Anglophone literature: studies in postcolonial theatre and drama Lecturer Grzegorz Koneczniak (PhD) Type, year and semester of the course


ECTS points 4 per semester Number of 30 per semester

hours Type of course Tutorial Course description

The main objective of the course is to present the most important developments in the postcolonial theatre and drama in English. The contemporary works of Australian, Jamaican, Malaysian, Trinidadian and Irish playwrights will be analysed and interpreted in the context of political corruption, sexuality, postcoloniality, nationality, as well as historical and cultural narratives


Involvement in discussion, end-of-semester essay

Literature Crow, Brian and Chris Banfield. 1996. An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Postcolonial plays (an anthology), edited by Helen Gilbert, London: Routledge (2007). Michael. 2007. Literary theory: a practical introduction. Malden: Blackwell Publishing

Integrated skills (Practical English) Lecturer Grzegorz Koneczniak (Phd) Type, year and semester of the course


ECTS points 9 for all the English practical course Number of hours

30 per semester

Type of course Part of English practical course Course description

The aim of the course is to practice such language elements as advanced grammar structures as well as formal and academic lexicon. The class exercises will include academic text analysis, grammatical and lexical transformations, argumentative discussions, and extensive listening.

Type of credit Grade (2-5) after the first semester and exam (2-5) after the second one Credit requirements

Participation, involvement, home assignments, class assignments, tests

Literature Evans, Virginia. 2002. CPE Use of English. Newbury Gude, Kathy and Michael Duckworth. 1994. Proficiency Masterclass. OUP Leki, Ilona. 1998. Academic Writing. Exploring Processes and Strategies. Cambridge. Newbrook, Jacky and Judith Wilson. 2000. Proficiency Gold. Longman Stephens, Mary. 2001. New Proficiency Reading. London

Literary theory Lecturer Grzegorz Koneczniak PhD Type, year and semester of the

Postgraduate studies, 1st year,

course ECTS points 4 per semester Number of hours

30 per semester


The aim of the course is to present, describe and compare the most important literary theories of the twentieth century (Russian formalism, structuralism, poststructuralism, feminism, postcolonialism, cultural criticism). Additionally, the lecture will address such issues as literary analysis and interpretation, poetics, theories concerning the literary work, as well as elements of literary criticism.

Type of credit Pass + Grade (2-5) Credit requirements

Attendance, end-of-semester test

Literature Burzyńska Anna and Michał Paweł Markowski. 2006. Teorie literatury XX wieku. Kraków: Znak. Lodge, David. 1988. Modern criticism and theory. London: Longman. Markiewicz, Henryk (red.) 1987. Problemy teorii literatury. Wrocław, Warszawa i Kraków: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich. Newton. K. M. 1992. Theory into practice. A reader in modern literary criticism. London: The Macmillan Press LTD. Ryan, Michael. 2007. Literary theory: a practical introduction. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. Trilling, Lionel. 1970. Literary criticism. An introductory reader. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, INC. Waugh, Patricia. 2006. Literary theory and criticism: An Oxford guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

English Teaching Methodology Lecturer Krzysztof Strzemeski, MA Type, year and semester of the course

Postgraduate studies, year 1, winter and summer semester

ECTS points winter semester: 2; summer semester: 3 (for both this class and the lecture; 1 point extra for the completion of teaching practice)

Number of hours

30 in a semester


Teaching English as a foreign language belongs to the cluster of pre-service teacher training courses. The objective is to give trainees some basics in syllabus design, lesson planning, classroom management, material development and the particular classroom techniques within the framework of communicative language teaching.


Active participation in class and Internet-based activities, completion of written tests, a class presentation, and a presentation of a portfolio of materials. Class material will be included in the final exam.

Literature See methodology lecture bibliography. Also: Newby, D. et al. 2007. Europejskie portfolio dla studentów – przyszłych nauczycieli. CODN. Richards, J. and C. Lockhart. 1994. Reflective Teaching in Second Language Classrooms. CUP. Scrivener, J. 2005. Learning Teaching. Macmillan. Tanner, R, C. Green. 1998. Tasks for Teacher Education. Longman Ur, P. 1996. A Course in Language Teaching. CUP A selection of video materials for lesson observation (incl. Larsen-Freeman, D. 1986. Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching. OUP. Harmer, J. 2007. How to Teach English. Pearson. i Harmer, J. The Practice of ELT. 4th ed. Pearson.)

Cultural studies Lecturer Prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Rachwał Type, year and semester of the course



30


The lecture will address the question of “outsidedness” in British and American literature and culture. The following issues will be discussed and exemlified: social exclusion, multiculturalism, constructions of the Other, estrangement, monological/dialogical discourses, transgressions. I’ll address more specifically the following themes: Milton’s outsides: unreason and femininity, Thoreau, wildness and the peripatetic thinking, Shakespeare’s Venice – carnivalesque exclusions, The fenced off outsides. Alexander Pope and gardening, Transgressing the limits. Blake’s visionary unities, “The inside is the outside” – Jacques Derrida and presence


The final credit will be based on an essay (700 words) addressing a chosen theme from the lectures. Advice concerning the feasible subjects will be given to students in the lectures, but the choice of the topics of the essays is up to them.

Literature William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice William Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell Henry David Thoreau, Walking John Milton, Areopagitica Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (fragments) Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno (fragments) Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild Jacquess Derrida, Of Grammatology (fragments)

English Teaching Methodology Lecturer Katarzyna Piątkowska, PhD Type, year and semester of the course


ECTS points 1 – Winter semester 2 – summer semester

Number of hours

30 per semester


A series of lectures will present basic issues in the practice of English language teaching and will provide a theoretical framework for what the students will learn during the classes that will accompany the lectures. The aim of the lectures is to prepare students to start their teaching practice in primary/junior/secondary school in the third semester. The topics discussed will be centred around such topics as: difference between an approach, method and technique, approaches to second language learning, methods in language teaching, the role of formal instruction, classroom interaction and foreign language teaching, the role of input in second language learning/teaching, teaching across different age proficiency levels, syllabus design, techniques and materials, teacher language awareness, individual learner differences, the role of language transfer, linguistic universals and language learning.

Type of credit Pass/fail – Winter semester Exam – summer semester

Credit requirements

Attendance in the winter semester, A satisfactory grade in the exam in the summer semester

Literature Andrews, Stephen. Teacher Language Awareness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Brown, Douglas, H. Principles of Language Learning and Teaching. New Yersey: Prentice Hall, 1994. Brown, Douglas, H. Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1994. Dakowska, Maria. Current Controversies in Foreign Language Didactics. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2003. Dakowska, Maria. Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2005. Ellis, Rod. Understanding Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. Ellis, Rod. The Study of Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Harmer, Jeremy. The Practice of English Language Teaching. Londyn, Nowy Jork: Longman, 1991. Komorowska, Hanna. Metodyka nauczania języków obcych. Warszawa: Fraszka Edukacyjna, 2002. Richards, Jack, Theodore Rodgers. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

SECOND YEAR

Awareness of translation problems Lecturer Dr Dorota Guttfeld Type, year and semester of the course

Postgraduate studies, 2nd year, winter semester and summer semester


60 (30 – winter semester, 30 – summer semester)

Type of course practical classes Course description

The aim of the course is to develop practical translation skills and raise awareness of translation problems. In the first semester, the course will focus on issues in literary translation, including the rendering of style, cultural items, intertextuality and non-standard language varieties, as illustrated by selected translations. In the second semester, students will translate and discuss translations of common text types, including tourist brochures, advertisements, manuals, and websites.


Attendance and active participation; winter semester: presentation of a translation problem and possible solutions, summer semester: graded translation assignments

Literature Barańczak, S. Ocalone w tłumaczeniu. Poznań: a5, 1994. Belczyk, A. Poradnik tłumacza. Kraków: Idea, 2007. Belczyk, A. Tłumaczenie filmów. Wilkowice: Dla Szkoły, 2007. Douglas Kozłowska, Ch. Difficult Words in Polish-English Translation. Warszawa: PWN, 2004. Korzeniowska, A. and P. Kuhiwczak. Successful Polish-English Translation: Tricks of the Trade. Warszwa: PWN, 1998. Landers, C. Literary translation: A Practical Guide. Clevedon: Multilingual, 2001.

Analyses of Emotion Terms Seminar Lecturer Ariadna Strugielska, doktor Type, year and semester of the course

Postgraduate studies, second year, spring semester

ECTS points 5 Number of 30

hours Type of course seminar Course description

The course provides an overview of analyses of emotion terms within cognitive linguistics. Students will be required to critically juxtapose two of the approaches discussed.


Attendance, participation, essay/presentation.

Literature Deignan, Alice. 2005. Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Deignan, Alice. 2006. The grammar of linguistic metaphors. Stefanowitsch, Anatol and Stefan Th. Gries (eds.), Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy, 106-122. Berlin and New York: Mounton de Gruyter. Dobrovol’skij, Dmitrij O., and Elisabeth Piirainen. 2005. Figurative Language Cross-cultural and Cross-linguistic Perspectives. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Glynn, Dylan. 2002. Love and Anger: the grammatical structure of conceptual metaphors. Style 36, 541 – 559. Kövecses, Zoltán. 1986. Metaphors of Anger, Pride and Love: A Lexical Approach to the Structure of Concepts. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

The Role of the Human Body Lecturer dr Katarzyna Więckowska Type, year and semester of the course

Postgraduate studies, 2nd year, winter term


30


The seminar examines the role of the human body In contemporary cultural practices and philosophy, from the conceptualization of the body as a „mask” to somaesthetics. The analysis of selekt cultural texts (films, photos, installations, performances) is to illustrate the changes in the body/mind opposition and the contemporary “turn to corporeality”.



Literature Bell, D. and B. M. Kennedy. The Cybercultures Reader. London and NY: Routledge, 2000. Conboy, K., N. Medina, S. Stanbury (eds), Writing on the Body. Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory. NY: Columbia UP, 1997. Crary, J. and S. Kwinter (eds.), Incorporations (Zone 6). NY: Zone

Books, 1992. Easthope, A. and K. McGowan (eds), A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1994. Featherstone, M. and B.S. Turner. Body & Society. Vol. 1. Sage, 1995. Lorek-Jezińska, E. and K. Więckowska. Corporeal Inscriptions. Toruń: NCU, 2005. Shusterman, R. Somaesthetics: A Disciplinary Proposal, 1999.

Postcolonial English: Focus on Australian English and Aboriginal English s seminar Lecturer Waldemar Skrzypczak Type, year and semester of the course



30


The objective of the seminar Postcolonial English: Focus on Australian English and Aboriginal English is to familiarize the students with varieties of English in the Post-colonial context and with the dynamism of language change in modern times. The following varieties of English will be discussed: Pacific English, South-East Asian English, Indian English, East, West and South African varieties of English, Caribbean English against the background of the more traditional ‘ingredients’ (English English, Scottish English and Irish English). American and Canadian English will be treated as reference points to depict the Dynamic Model. Australian English and Aboriginal English will be discussed in particular detail.



Literature Melchers Gunnel and Phillip Shaw. 2003. World Englishes. London and New York: Arnold and Oxford University Press Moore, Bruce. 2008. Speaking our Language: The Story of Australian English. Australia, New Zealand: Oxford University Press Muecke, Stephen. 2005 [1992]. Textual Spaces. Sydney: API Network Mugglestone, Linda (ed.). 2006. The Oxford History of English. Oxford: Oxford University Press Schneider, Edgar W. 2007. Postcolonial English: Varieties around the world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Skrzypczak, Waldemar. 2004. “Globalne i lokalne aspekty języka angielskiego, oraz zapytania o przyszłość.” Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych w Toruniu, Silva Rerum NKJO. Nr 1, 26-30 Thrudgill, Peter and Jean Hannah. 2002. International English: A guide to the varieties of standard English. London and new York: Arnold and Oxford University Press Walsh, Michael and Colin Yallop (eds.). 2007 [1992]. Language and Culture

in Aboriginal Australia. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press

Gender in British drama and theatre seminar Lecturer Edyta Lorek - Jezińska, PhD Type, year and semester of the course

Postgraduate studies, 2nd year, summer semester


30


The course focuses on how British drama and theatre address the concept of gender. The studied material will range between plays written by women and discussing the gender-related issues and feminist plays explicitly and often ideologically defining and redefining gender. The issues discussed in the seminar include trauma theory, anti-historicism, intertextuality, historiography, cross-dressing and lesbian drama.


Attendance, active participation in discussion, essay or test, short oral presentation.

Literature Goodman, L. (ed.). 2000. Mythic Women/Real Women. London: Faber & Faber Keyssar, H. 1993. Feminist Theatre: An Introduction to Plays of Contemporary British and American Women. Basingstoke: Macmillan Remnant, M. (ed.). 1994. Plays by Women: Volume Seven. London: Methuen Drama Goodman, L. and J. de Gay (eds.). 2003. The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance. London: Routledge Buse, P. 2001. Drama + Theory: Critical Approaches to Modern British Drama. Manchester: Manchester University Press Campbell, P(ed.). 1996. Analysing Performance: A Critical Reader. Manchester: Manchester University Press Warhol, R. R. and D. Price Herndl (eds.). 1997. Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press Ferris, L. (ed.). 1993. Crossing the Stage: Controversies on cross-dressing. London: Routledge

The Role of the Human Body seminar Lecturer dr Katarzyna Więckowska Type, year and semester of the course



30


The seminar examines the role of the human body In contemporary cultural practices and philosophy, from the conceptualization of the body as a „mask” to somaesthetics. The analysis of selekt cultural texts (films, photos, installations, performances) is to illustrate the changes in the body/mind opposition and the contemporary “turn to corporeality”.



Literature Bell, D. and B. M. Kennedy. The Cybercultures Reader. London and NY: Routledge, 2000. Conboy, K., N. Medina, S. Stanbury (eds), Writing on the Body. Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory. NY: Columbia UP, 1997. Crary, J. and S. Kwinter (eds.), Incorporations (Zone 6). NY: Zone Books, 1992. Easthope, A. and K. McGowan (eds), A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1994. Featherstone, M. and B.S. Turner. Body & Society. Vol. 1. Sage, 1995. Lorek-Jezińska, E. and K. Więckowska. Corporeal Inscriptions. Toruń: NCU, 2005. Shusterman, R. Somaesthetics: A Disciplinary Proposal, 1999.

MA seminar - Postcolonial representations of the UK and Ireland Lecturer Dr. Michael Hornsby Type, year and semester of the course

Postgraduate studies, 2nd year, winter semester


30


This seminar will examine representations of the UK and Ireland from a postcolonial perspective in literature and film. By the end of the course, students will have experience of evaluating texts using analytical tools from cultural studies and semiotics.

Type of credit Continuous assessment Credit requirements

Selected coursework will enable students to demonstrate skills in analyzing media and written texts from cultural studies and semiotic frameworks.

Literature Lewis (2008) Cultural Studies Gillespie & Toynebee (2006) Analysing Media Texts Hechter (1975) Internal Colonialism Innes (2007) The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English

MA seminar in literary studies Lecturer Grzegorz Koneczniak (PhD) Type, year and semester of the course

Postgraduate studies, 2nd year


30 per semester


The aim of the course is to supervise the process of writing and editing the students’ MA theses, and, if necessary, to offer suggestions and changes. Additionally, the seminar discussion will revolve around such issues as theatrical reception, postcolonial studies, literary translation, and hyper-literature (the subjects related to the students’ research interests).


Involvement in the seminar discussion (individual consultations), submission and correction of particular chapters, submission of the whole thesis towards the end of the second semester

Literature Eco, Umberto. 1992. Interpretation and overinterpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Eliot, Simon i W. R. Owens. 1998. A handbook to literary research. London: Routledge Newton, K. M. 1992. Theory into practice. A reader in modern literary criticism. London: The Macmillan Press LTD Davis, Robert Con and Ronald Schleifer. 1998. Contemporary literary criticism. London: Longman Trilling, Lionel. 1970. Literary criticism: an introductory reader. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, INC.

M.A. Seminar on chosen aspects of literatures and cultures of anglophone countries Lecturer Prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Rachwał Type, year and semester of the course

Postgraduate studies, 2nd year, winter and summer semester


30


The task of the seminar is to prepare students to write their M.A. theses on chosen aspects of literatures and cultures of anglophone countries. During the winter semester students will work individually on the dissertations and consult the tutor on their work in progress. Some time will be also devoted to presentations of students’ work in class. Classes will be devoted to presentation and discussion of students’ theses in progress and to individual meetings with students.

Type of credit Mark Credit At the end of the semester students should present one complete chapter of

requirements their M.A. theses whose acceptance by the supervisor is the requirement to get the final credit.

Literature

Monographic Lecture: key concepts in modern sociolinguistics Lecturer Dr. Michael Hornsby Type, year and semester of the course



30


These lectures will explore key concepts in modern sociolinguistics from both a variationist and ethnographic perspective and will take as case studies a variety of situations from the Celtic world.

Type of credit Examination Credit requirements

-

Literature Coulmas (2006) Sociolinguistics: The Study of Speakers’ Choices Edwards (2009) Language and Identity: An Introduction Garrett (2010) Attitudes to Language Ball & Muller (2009) The Celtic Languages

Monographic lecture: culturally relevant binary oppositions Lecturer Prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Rachwał Type, year and semester of the course



30


The lecture will be devoted to reading and discussing selected literary and cultural texts with the eye on, generally, the ways of structuring culturally relevant binary oppositions, such as good/evil, beauty/monstrosity, harmony/chaos, order/disorder, artificial/natural, feminity/masculinity, activity/passivity. Students will analyse the materials discussed from various crtitical and theoretical perspectives so as to gain more experience in interpreting and contextualizing texts.


The final credit will be based on an essay (700 words) addressing a chosen theme from the lectures. Advice concerning the feasible subjects will be given to students in the lectures, but the choice of the topics of the essays is up to them.

Literature Betty Joseph, Re(playing) Crusoe/Pocahontas: Circum-Atlantic Stagings in The Female American. Agnes Heller, The Absolute Stranger: Shakespeare and the Drama of Failed Assimilation Amelia Jones, Equivocal Masculinity: New York Dada in the Context of War World II Mike Featherstone, Archiving cultures John Milton, Areopagitica William Shakespeare, The Tempest William Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell Henry David Thoreau, Walking George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All, or Slaves Without Masters Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present Gary Snyder, Selected poems

Monographic Lecture: Alternatives to realism Lecturer Anna Branach-Kallas PhD Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate, 2nd year, summer semester


30


The course is an introduction to Gothic tradition, magic realism, and utopia.

Type of credit Pass/Fail Credit requirements

Attendance, test.

Literature Punter, David and Glennis Byron. The Gothic. 2004.

Botting, Fred. Gothic. 1996.

Faris, Wendy B. Ordinary Enchantments. 2004.

Booker, Keith M. Introduction to Dystopian Literature. 1994.

Cognitive Grammar Approach to Language Analysis Lecturer dr Tomasz Fojt Type, year and semester of the course

Undergraduate studies, year 2, summer and winter terms


30


The aim of the course is to familiarise the students with the basic concepts and methods of linguistic analysis in Ronald Langacker’s cognitive grammar. The following issues will be discussed in the course: methodological assumptions, the nature of grammatical structure, symbolic units, figure/ground distinction, prominence, profile and base, atemporal relations, temporal relations (perfective vs. imperfective), dimensions of imagery, valence relations, schematization, compositionality, active zones, grounding, subjectification.

Type of credit credit without grade Credit requirements


Literature Langacker, Ronald. 1987. Foundations of Cognitive Grammar. Stanford: Stanford University Press Langacker, Ronald. 2000. Grammar and Conceptualization. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter Langacker, Ronald. 2002. Concept, Image and Symbol. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter Langacker, Ronald. 2008. Cognitive Grammar. A Basic Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press Kubiński, W., Kalisz, R., Modrzejewska, E. 1998.Językoznawstwo kognitywne. Wybór tekstów. Gdańsk. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego

Monographic lecture: contemporary theories of the city Lecturer Edyta Lorek-Jezińska, PhD Type, year and semester of the course



30


The first part of the course is an overview of contemporary theories of the city concerning its mythologies, representations, structures, architecture,

space. The second part examines the ways in which the city has been represented in various cultural products, both mainstream (such as literature, film and theatre) and peripheral (outdoor performances, happenings, and urban myths).

Type of credit Pass/Fail (Zal/Nzal) Credit requirements

Attendance Test(s)

Literature Williams, R. 1993. The Country and the City London: The Hogarth Press Certeau, M. de. 1994. “Walking in the City”. The Cultural Studies Reader. ed. S. During. London: Routledge Jameson, F. 1993. “Postmodernism and consumer society”. A. Gray, J. McGuigan (ed.). Studying Culture: An Introductory Reader. London: Edward Arnold Foucault, M. 1994. “Space, power and knowledge”. The Cultural Studies Reader. ed. S. During. London: Routledge Lehman, D. 1989. The Perfect Murder. London: Collier Macmillan Harrison, P. 1992. Inside the Inner City. London: Penguin Forced Entertainment, theatre projects

Monographic lecture: issues in poetics and stylistics Lecturer Dr Dorota Guttfeld Type, year and semester of the course



30 (winter semester)


The lecture will cover issues in poetics and stylistics, aiming to raise students’ awareness of figures of speech and literary devices, and their competence in close reading a literary text. The levels of text analysis covered will range from graphology and sound symbolism, throrugh lexical choice, to issues in speech presentation and narratology.

Type of credit pass/fail Credit requirements

Attendance, passing the final test

Literature Baldick, Chris. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford: OUP, 1990. Crystal, D. and D. Davy. Investigating English Style. London: Longman, 1969. Cuddon, J.A. Dictionary of Literary Terms. London: Penguin, 1991. Leech, G. and M. Short. Style in Fiction. London: Longman, 1982. Leech, G. A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry. London: Longman, 1969. Simpson, P. Stylistics. A Resource Book for Students. London: Routledge, 2004.

Monographic lecture: Directions in the study of linguistic politeness Lecturer Przemysław śywiczyński, PhD Type, year and semester of the course



30


Title: Directions in the study of linguistic politeness

The course is available to participants of both linguistic and non-linguistic seminars. Its goal is to present the most important directions in the study of linguistic politeness. Topics discussed range from the methodology of politeness to the description of particular theories, subsumed under the pragmatic approaches (Lakoff, Leech), interactionist approaches (Goffman), and sociolinguistic approaches (Brown and Levinson, Watts).

Type of credit Pass Credit requirements

Participation in lectures; passing the final test

Literature Brown, Penelope and Stephen Levinson. 1987. Politeness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Eleen, Gino. A critique of politeness theories. Manchester: St. Jerome

Goffman, Erving. 1967. Interaction Ritual. New York: Anchor Books

Lakoff, Robin. 1973. “The logic of politeness.” Chicago Linguistic Society 8, 292-305

Leech, Geoffrey. 1983. Principles of pragmatics. London: Longman

Watts, Richard. 2003. Politeness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Contrastive grammar Lecturer Przemysław śywiczyński, PhD Type, year and semester of the course



30

Type of course Tutorials Course description

The goal of the course is to present basic morpho-syntactic problems that contrast the grammatical systems of Polish and English. Topics discussed concern differences in derivational and inflectional morphology, sentence structure, markedness of nominal phrases, categories of grammatical cases

and their syntactic-semantic implications, pronominal systems and anaphoric relations as well as the applications of contrastive analyses in applied contexts. Methods

Type of credit Exam covering the content of the course Credit requirements

Active participation in classes; passing the exam

Literature Krzeszowski, Tomasz. 1990. Contrasting languages: The scope of contrastive linguistics. Berlin: Mouton

Crystal, David. 1995. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English language. Cambridge: The University Press

Fisiak, Jacek. et al. 1978. An introductory Polish-English contrastive grammar. Warszawa: PWN

Mańczak-Wohlfeld, ElŜbieta. 1996. Tendencje rozwojowe współczesnych zapoŜyczeń angielskich w języku polskim. Kraków: UJ

Willim, Ewa and ElŜbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld. 1997. A contrastive approach to problems with English. Kraków: PWN

Theory of Communication Lecturer Przemysław śywiczyński, PhD Type, year and semester of the course



30


The course covers a broad spectrum of topics in general linguisitics and communication theory, which belong to linguistics proper as well as auxiliary disciplines. Language is characterised as a semiotic system performing important social functions. Auxiliary disciplines and approaches, the concerns of which are discussed during the course, include: anthropolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, cognitive studies, linguistic axiology, and theories of non-verbal behaviours.

Type of credit Exam covering the content of the course Credit requirements

Participation in lectures; passing the final exam

Literature Aitchison, Jean. 1995. Linguistics: an introduction. London: Edward Arnold

Aronoff, Mark and Janie Rees-Miller. 2001. The handbook of linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell

Crystal, David. 1995. The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English

language. Cambridge: The University Press

Fisiak, Jacek. 1985. Wstęp do współczesnych teorii lingwistycznych. Warszawa: WSiP

Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara (ed). 1993. Ways to language. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Lyons, John. 1981. Language and linguistics. Cambridge: The University Press

Robins, Robert. 1979. A short history of linguistics. London: Longmans

Robins, Robert. 1989. General linguistics. An introductory survey. New York: Longman

MA seminar: Axiological, pragmatic, and ethological approaches to the study of conversation. Lecturer Przemysław śywiczyński, PhD Type, year and semester of the course



30 + 30


Title: Axiological, pragmatic, and ethological approaches to the study of conversation.

The seminar comprises a 2-year course aimed at helping students present MA theses devoted to the study of conversational exchanges in English. During the first year, basic field-related theories and concepts are discussed (Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis, linguistic axiology, ethology, the evolution of language); this phase of the course is designed to give students a strong theoretical footing for the work on their MA theses in the second year.

Type of credit Pass Credit requirements

Active participation in classes; completing successive parts of M.A. theses

Literature Birdwhistell, Ray. 1970. Kinesics and Contexts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

Brown, Penelope, and Stephen Levinson. 1987. Politeness. Some Universals in Language Usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Eibl- Eisbesfeldt, Irenaus. 1989. Human Ethology. Amsterdam:

Aldine de Gruyter

Ekman, Paul. 2003. Unmasking the Face. Cambridge, MA: Malor Books

Hall, Edward. 1969. The Hidden Dimension. New York: Anchor Books

Krzeszowski, Tomasz. 1997. Devils and Angels in Hell. Warszawa: Energeia

Leech, Geoffrey. 1983. Principles of Pragmatics. London: Longman

Levinson, Stephen. 1983. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Puzynina, Jadwiga. 1992. Język Wartości. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN

Watts, Richard. 2003. Politeness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

English linguistics Lecturer Przemysław śywiczyński, PhD Type, year and semester of the course



30


The goal of the course is to increase students’ awareness that theories and methods of research on language are conditioned by the place of linguistics among other disciplines and social applications of linguistic knowledge. This is accomplished by discussing selected areas of linguistics, in particular the most recent achievements of English linguistics.

Content: selected problems from the history of linguistics and philosophy of language, theory of communication, sociology, and anthropology.

Type of credit The semestral work related to problems discussed during the course. Credit requirements

Active participation in classes; completing the semestral work.

Literature Berger, Peter Ludwig, Thomas Luckmann 1983 [1966]. Społeczne tworzenie rzeczywistośc . Przeł. i słowem wstępnym opatrzył Józef NiŜnik. Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, [The Social Construction of Reality. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday].

Crystal, David 1987. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Foucault, Michel 1977 [1969]. Archeologia wiedzy. Przeł. Andrzej Siemek. Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, [Archéologie du savoir. Paris: Editions Gallimard,].

Nye, Andrea (ed.) 1999 [1998] Philosophy of Language. The Big Questions. Reprinted. Malden, MA – Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Martinich, Aloysius P. (ed.) 2001 [1985] The Philosophy of Language. 4th ed. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Wąsik, Zdzisław 2003. Epistemological Perspectives on Linguistic Semiotics. Frankfurt am Main – Berlin – Bern – Bruxelles – New York – Oxford – Wien: Peter Lang.

M.A. seminar Lecturer Ewa Kościałkowska-Okońska Type, year and semestre of the course

MA, I year, winter and summer semester

ECTS points 5 points in each semester Number of hours

30


The seminar is an attempt aimed at the explanation and analysis of certain

concepts related to the field of translation; it will address most important

problems that translation, an interdisciplinary construct in itself, is to face

nowadays. The proposed spectrum of topics covers brief overview of the history

of translation, the linguistic, cultural (functionalist) and cognitive approaches, the

concept of equivalence, norm and translation competence.

Theoretical aspects will be further accompanied by translation pragmatics and practice; all the aforementioned factors will lead to the construction of an MA

thesis. Type of credit Constructing subsequent chapters of the MA thesis Credit requirements

Acceptance of required chapters of the MA thesis by the thesis supervisor

Literature Baker, Mona. 1998. Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. London and

New York: Routledge.

Baker, Mona. 1992. In Other Words. A Coursebook on Translation. London:

Routledge.

Danks, Joseph H. et al. (eds.). 1997. Cognitive Processes in Translation and

Interpreting. Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage.

Gile, Daniel. 1995. Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator

Training. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Kussmaul, Paul. 1995. Training the Translator. Amsterdam: Philadelphia: John

Benjamins.

Lörscher, Wolfgang. 1991. Translation Performance, Translation Process, and

Translation Strategies. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag

Malmkjær, Kirsten. (ed.). 1998. Translation and Language Teaching. St Jerome

Publishing

Munday, Jeremy. 2001. 'Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and

Applications'. London and New York: Routledge

Nord, Christiane. 1997. Translating as a Purposeful Activity. Functionalist

Approaches Explained. Manchester: St Jerome Publishing

Snell-Hornby, Mary. 1988. Translation Studies-an integrated approach.

Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Wilss, Wolfram. 1996. Knowledge and Skills in Translator Behavior. John Benjamins Publishing Company. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia.

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