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A critical examination of the category of "Polishness" - that is,
the formation, redefinition, and performance of various kinds of
Polish identities - from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives.
Inspired by new research in the humanities and social sciences as
well as recent scholarship on national identities, this volume
offers a rigorous examination of the idea of Polishness. Offering a
diversity of case studies and methodological-theoretical
approaches, it demonstrates a profound connection between national
and transnational processes and places the Polish case in a broader
context. This broader context stretches from a larger Eastern
European one, a usual frame of comparison, to the overseas
immigrant communities. The authors, renowned scholars from Europe
and the United States, thus demonstrate that an understanding of
modern Polish identity means crossing not only historical but also
geographical boundaries. Consequently, the narrative on Polish
identity that unfolds in the volume is a personalized and
multivocal one that presents the perspectives of a wide range of
subjects: peasants, workers, migrants, ethnic and sexual
minorities-that is, all those actors who have been absent in grand
national narratives. As such, the examination of Polishness sheds
light on the identity question more broadly, emphasizing the
interplay of pluralizing and homogenizing tendencies, and fostering
a reflection on national identity as encompassing both sameness and
difference.
The book offers an interdisciplinary account of linguistic
research. It covers the repertoire of such fields of study as
cognitive linguistics, translation studies and glottodidactics.
Primarily, it throws light on different aspects concerning modern
linguistics research; the reader will become acquainted
specifically with the developments in the area of conceptual
semantics, humour in translation and quality in foreign language
education. The book includes a wide range of topics and aims to
reach a broad audience.
This monograph highlights the significance of narrative tools for
the analysis of language behaviour in various social situations and
considers narrativity as a natural human way of making sense.
Through narration we develop unique modes of comprehending reality
and dealing with its complicated structure. The analysis elaborates
narrating as a dialogical experience and highlights its important
role in coaching and in personalised education. Additionally it
throws light on the modern city narrative as a literary genre.
Lastly the authors develop the aspects of narrativity in the act of
conversion in evangelical churches as an instance of identity
enactment explaining the modern trends in preaching in charismatic
evangelical churches.
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