Culture and Cognition in Language:
Formulaic Language as a Cultural
and Cognitive Phenomenon
Institute of English Studies
University of Rzeszów
April 6-7, 2017
Thursday 6.04.2017
9:00-10:00 Registration - A0 building, ul. S. Pigonia 1
10:00 Opening of the conference (A0 building, ul. S. Pigonia 1, main lecture hall, first floor)
10:15-11:15 plenary lecture (A0, main lecture hall)
Chair: Pavol Štekauer
Prof. Zoltán Kövecses (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
Idioms of money – in a new light
11:15-11:45 coffee break (A0, ground floor lobby)
11:45-13:45 parallel sessions
Session 1 (room 109, A3 building) Culture and Cognition in Language
Chair: Konrad Szcześniak
Session 2 (main lecture hall, A0) Formulaic Language as a Cultural and Cognitive Phenomenon
Chair: prof. Zoltán Kövecses
Anna Dziama (University of Rzeszów)
Cultural conceptualizations in Jewish English – all the shiksas and yentas
Donald Trinder (University of Rzeszów)
Poland versus Germany: The portrayal of two nations
at the time of the 1938 Munich crisis in the British press
Arkadiusz Gut, Katarzyna Pejda, (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin),
Joanna Hryniewska (University of Social Sciences and Humanities)
Polish-Chinese study of mental concepts as a tool for description
of relevant social attributions
Pavol Štekauer, Livia Körtvélyessy (University of Rzeszów)
Cross-linguistic research into derivational networks
Ewa Konieczna (University of Rzeszów)
Scaffolding dismantled: Metaphorical conceptualisations behind phrasal verbs
Rafał Augustyn (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin)
Metaphoricity behind the formulaic language used by the Polish legislator in Penal Code
Penelope Scott (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China)
The cultural metaphorical basis for trigger warnings
Maria Brenda (University of Szczecin)
Verb-particle constructions with at
13:45-15:00 lunch (A0, ground floor lobby)
15:00-17:00 parallel sessions (A3, A0)
Session 3 (room 2, A3 building) Culture and Cognition in Language
Chair: Livia Körtvélyessy
Session 4 (main lecture hall, A0) Formulaic Language as a Cultural and Cognitive Phenomenon
Chair: Marcin Grygiel
Michał Wilczewski (University of Warsaw),
Arkadiusz Gut (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
Communication aspects of Polish expatriates' narrative accounts
of collaborations with Chinese personnel in an MNC
Monika Chylińska, Arkadiusz Gut (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
On cultural concepts of creativity – similarities and differences among experts and laypeople
from Poland and China
Usa Wongpaisarn (Burapha University, Thailand)
A comparative study of thanking strategies used by native
and non-native teachers of English in Thailand
Robert Mirski, Arkadiusz Gut (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
The problems of the computational approach to language’s role
in mindreading and its pragmatic remedies
Alena Kačmarova (University of Prešov, Slovakia)
Non-standard grammar or formulaic language? The case of there’s many…
Agnieszka Mierzwińska-Hajnos (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin)
Formulaic language violated: Modified proverbs in Polish political discourse.
A conceptual blending analysis
Dorota Pierścińska (University of Łódź)
The meanings and functions of mental clauses in panel and blog discussions
Magdaléna Bílá, Gabriela Gumanova (University of Prešov, Slovakia)
Interpretation of formulaic sequences by Slovak speakers of English based
on the phonological coherence
17:00-17:30 coffee break (A0, ground floor lobby)
17:30-19:00 parallel sessions (A3, A0)
Session 5 (room 2) Culture and Cognition in Language
Chair: Marcin Kudła
Session 6 (main lecture hall, A0) Formulaic Language as a Cultural and Cognitive Phenomenon
Chair: Agnieszka Uberman
Mateusz Szal (Rzeszów University of Technology)
Of men and machines – metaphors in the language of science and technology
Anna Ciechanowska (State Higher School of Technology and Economics, Jarosław),
Grzegorz A.Kleparski (University of Rzeszów)
Anti-culture talk in focus: On the nature of prison slang
Ireneusz Kida (University of Silesia, Katowice)
Informal versus formal language - a historical perspective
Paulina Biały (University of Silesia, Katowice)
On culture-reflecting usage of diminutives in formulaic expressions
Konrad Szcześniak (University of Silesia, Katowice)
Negative Constructions
Carl Vogel (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Formulaic thought and expression in linguistic politeness and impoliteness
19.30 Dinner at Prezydencki Hotel
Friday 7.04.2017
9:00-10:00 Registration - A0 building, ul. S. Pigonia 1
10:00-11:00 plenary lecture (A0, main lecture hall)
Chair: Robert Kiełtyka
Prof. Henryk Kardela (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin)
The symbolic pregnance of linguistic units. From syntactic patterns of fixed phrases to formulaic language use
11:00-11:30 coffee break (A3, room 11)
11:30-13.30 parallel sessions (A3)
Session 7 (room 109) Culture and Cognition in Language
Chair: Anna Dziama
Session 8 (room 33) Formulaic Language as a Cultural and Cognitive Phenomenon
Chair: prof. Henryk Kardela
Agnieszka Uberman (University of Rzeszów)
A semantic frame of DEATH
Marcin Kudła (University of Rzeszów)
In search of prototypical stereotypes and stereotypical prototypes
Marcin Kuczok (University of Silesia, Katowice)
Lexical and axiological aspects of vegetalizations in English and Polish idioms
Jarosław Wiliński (Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities)
Conventional knowledge, pictorial elucidation, and etymological elaboration in an
onomasiological dictionary of idioms based on cognitive principles of linguistic organization
Vladimir Ž. Jovanović (University of Niš, Serbia)
Structure and meaning in formulaic language: Decomposing animal name-based idiomatic
expressions in English and Serbian
Robert Kiełtyka (University of Rzeszów)
To bridle one’s tongue and ujarzmić namiętności – some remarks on the metaphorical
use of lexis naming elements of equine harness in English and Polish
Agnieszka Grząśko (University of Rzeszów)
The language of love around the world: Cross-cultural perceptions of terms of endearment
Przemysław Wilk (Opole University)
On some conceptualizations of Brexit: A case study in the picture modality
13:30-14:45 lunch (A3, room 11)
14:45-16.45 parallel sessions (A3)
Session 9 (room 109) Culture and Cognition in Language
Chair: Robert Kiełtyka
Session 10 (room 33) Formulaic Language as a Cultural and Cognitive Phenomenon
Chair: Ewa Konieczna
Marcin Grygiel (University of Rzeszów)
Conceptualizations of MONEY in Hungarian and English:
Semantic calques and conceptual transfers
Božena Bednaříková and Zuzanna Novotna (Palacky University, the Czech Republic)
Metonymy in Czech word-formation in terms of cognitive linguistics
Alicja Dziedzic-Rawska (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin)
Formulaic language in American prison slang
Marantha Grace Tham Wahlang (University of Hyderabad, India)
Pipes crawl and roads walk: A linguistic study of non-actual motion in Khasi
Agnieszka Wawrzyniak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz)
The conceptual construal of ME verry and trewe in ‘The Canterbury Tales’
Paulina Mormol (University of Rzeszów)
Swearing as formulaic language. A corpus-based study of the flexibility
of particular offensive phrases
Adam Pluszczyk (University of Silesia, Katowice)
Linguistic aspects of verbal humour: The case of formulaic language and wordplay
Katarzyna Rudkiewicz (University of Szczecin)
Conceptual contradiction and communication boost
(the cases of 'almost exactly' and 'accidentally on purpose')
17.00 Closing of the conference (A3, room 33)