Jarosław Wiliński
Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities
1 book
Składnia, semantyka, frazeologia i leksykologia języka angielskiego.
Językoznawstwo korpusowe i gramatyka konstrukcyjna: ilościowa (statystyczna) i jakościowa analiza konstrukcji i kolokacji.
Konceptualna teoria metafory i metonimii. (source: UWS)
Cognitive linguistics and lexicography (especially thematic/onomasiological dictionaries) UWS Linguistics & Literary Studies English language syntax, semantics, phraseology and lexicology UWS Linguistics & Literary Studies
Corpus linguistics and construction grammar: quantitative (statistical) and qualitative analyses of constructions and collocations
Publications
Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Literature and Language
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(2017) “Cognitive motivation for idiom variation in a learner’s dictionary: Explaining cross-cultural and cross-linguistic differences in the use of British and American idioms.” [In:] Joanna Stolarek, Jarosław Wiliński (eds.) Cross-Cultural Communication in Literature and Language. San Diego, CA: Æ Academic Publishing; 157–183.
This paper employs a cognitive semantic approach to idiomatic expressions as motivated linguistic units. Much attention is focused on lexicographic applications of the concept of motivation to the elucidation of idiomatic meaning in a pedagogical dictionary of idioms intended for Polish language learners at the upper-intermediate and/or advanced level of English; particularly, on the applicability of conceptual metaphors, metonymies, and conventional knowledge to the explication of cross-cultural and cross-linguistic differences in the use of British and American idioms. It is argued that cognitive semantic ways of presenting idiomatic phrases in a learner’s dictionary of idioms can be expected to be especially beneficial for fostering users’ comprehension and retention of the meaning of those phrases.